When Mia Hansen-Løve was growing up in France, her older brother Sven couldn’t get enough of American house music. He imported vinyl records from the United States, obsessed over the soulful “garage” sound associated with New Jersey DJ Tony Humphries and Larry Levan; soon, he was spinning his favorites dance… Source: RollingStone Link: Paradise Lost: […]
Jimmy Page slammed the door of the Led Zeppelin vaults shut as he launched the final round of the band’s album reissues in London today. The deluxe editions of Zeppelin’s final three studio albums – Presence, In Through the Out Door and Coda – feature a wealth of previously unreleased material. Highlights… Source: RollingStone Link: Jimmy […]
Alan Jackson has released his first single since last year’s “A Million Ways to Die,” drumming up buzz for his new album, Angels and Alcohol, one month ahead of its release. Written by the “Chattahoochee” crooner himself, “Jim and Jack and Hank” is rooted in the two-stepping spirit of early-Nineties… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Alan […]
To hear Activision and FreeStyleGames tell it, everything in Guitar Hero Live — which launches Oct. 20 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, as well as unspecified mobile devices — is designed with an eye toward the present and the future. GHTV is a live service with a full […]
Last week, a Washington state activist named Rachel Dolezal made national headlines when it was revealed that she lived much of her life as white, and was raised by her white parents, before presenting herself as a black woman in recent years. Dolezal resigned her post as president of the… Source: RollingStone Link: Talib Kweli […]
Kacey Musgraves has never made a secret of the fact that the jumbo neon cacti in her stage setup and the over-the-top, kitschy, western glam of her wardrobe, to one degree or another, echo the winking, theatrical excesses of drag show camp. Monday night she put her record release party… Source: RollingStone Link: Inside Kacey […]
No other genre of music has a festival during which fans are any closer to the artists than at CMA Music Fest. And at the event’s AT&T U-Verse Fan Fair X experience, country superstars got up close, personal and really candid with their fans. Artists of the Day at the… Source: RollingStone Link: See Hunter […]
“It’s been a year of pure hell,” filmmaker Penelope Spheeris says with a laugh. The director, whose credits include Wayne’s World and Black Sheep, has finally emerged from the depths of turning her celebrated three-part hardcore-punk and heavy-metal documentary series, The Decline of Western Civilization, into a comprehensive box set. The… Source: RollingStone Link: Inside […]
Five albums and 18 years down the road from “Semi-Charmed Life,” Third Eye Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins still rocks the same springy sing-rap, and he’s still got a knack for spinning sunshine out of moody tunes — “Everything Is Easy” and “Back to Zero” reimagine the Cure and Arcade Fire as… Source: RollingStone Link: Dopamine
Step aside Wet Hot American Summer: Thirty Seconds to Mars will be taking their fans on a musical camping trip this summer. The trio will launch a three-day camping experience called Camp Mars this August. From August 22nd through 24th, Mars fans can flock to Malibu, California for the camping trip, where… Source: RollingStone Link: Thirty […]