Rapper MC Supreme, best known for his 1990 song “Black in America,” was killed while sitting in a parked car on California’s Pacific Coast Highway when a pickup truck struck his vehicle, according to Variety. He was 47. The rapper, whose real name was Dewayne Lawrence Coleman, was sitting in the driver’s seat… Source: RollingStone Link: MC […]
Although singer Ty Herndon officially came out as a gay man last November, late last week he co-hosted what could be considered his – and Music City’s – most star-studded coming-out party. Herndon was joined onstage Friday at Nashville’s City Winery by fellow musicians, friends and supporters for the first… Source: RollingStone Link: Ty Herndon, […]
While the CMA Music Festival raged one hour to the north, the 14th annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival brought 85,000 people to middle Tennessee this weekend, packing everybody onto a dust-choked farm with five main stages and upwards of 100 bands. Also tossed into the mix were several left-of-center country acts, continuing… Source: RollingStone Link: Kacey […]
A decade after releasing their last LP, veteran Houston hip-hop group the Geto Boys have put their differences aside to record a new album, Habeas Corpus. The rap trio, best known for the 1991 hit “Mind Playing Tricks on Me,” has started a Kickstarter page to finance the record. “I’d like to take credit, but the fans… Source: RollingStone Link: Geto […]
DJ and producer Bassnectar (Lorin Ashton) has confirmed Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine’s upcoming electronic music project. “[Morello]’s working on this really cool project where he’s working with multiple electronic music producers to create electronic songs that he can recreate live on this super, perverted, unexplainable, bastardized guitar mutant instrument… Source: RollingStone Link: Bassnectar […]
Father John Misty’s video for “I Love You, Honeybear” steps into heartbreaking territory, watching the lives of two couples intersect in a tragic way. Brett Gelman and Susan Traylor star as an EMT couple, who spend their night drinking whiskey, popping pills and playing with the medical supplies in their ambulance… Source: RollingStone Link: Father […]
The 2015 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival featured hundreds of artists, dozens of food trucks and more glitter than we can quantify. And thanks to top-notch headlining performances from Billy Joel, Kendrick Lamar and Mumford & Sons, it was another unforgettable, never-ending bonanza. We trekked from the Other Tent to… Source: RollingStone Link: 50 Best […]
The cheering began the moment the 500 members of Luke Bryan’s fan club fortunate enough to land free tickets to their idol’s CMA Music Fest fan party saw him poke his head out from behind a curtain and wave. Instead of making a beeline for his microphone, he strolled across… Source: RollingStone Link: Luke Bryan […]
Attention all planets of the Solar Federation: Rush have finally made the cover of Rolling Stone – and it’s happening well before the actual year 2112. It’s been more than four decades since the band formed its current lineup – and 34 years since its commercial breakthrough, 1981’s Moving Pictures – but… Source: RollingStone Link: Rush Finally […]
Dillinger Escape Plan vocalist Greg Puciato is widely acknowledged as one of the best frontmen in metal right now, if not the single best. Fans will point to his Mike Patton–esque vocal range and his daredevil antics amid the glorious chaos of DEP’s live shows, but really, it all comes… Source: RollingStone Link: Dillinger Escape […]