High in the southern Rif mountains of northern Morocco, just before midnight, a buzz begins to radiate through the groups of sprawled attendees decked out in colorful robes, hippie skirts and flowing Western clothes. Wordlessly we edge up from supine to seated, and rearrange ourselves in casual semicircles, all eyes… Source: RollingStone Link: Inside the […]
Kacey Musgraves continues to build anticipation for her sophomore album, Pageant Material, as she and her band delivered a bouncy rendition of “Family Is Family” on NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers this Wednesday. Driven forward by acoustic guitars and light percussion, the breezy tune is punctuated with such pithy observations… Source: RollingStone Link: See Kacey […]
“His playing has a real purity about it, a real beauty,” Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead said of the iconoclastic alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman in 1989. Garcia had just played on the latter’s album Virgin Beauty, a complex, radiant showcase for Coleman’s idea of free jazz: defying conventional laws… Source: RollingStone Link: Ornette Coleman: […]
“I can’t recognize myself; I’ve become someone else / My hands are painted red,” Lamb of God singer Randy Blythe rages on the band’s explosive new track, “512.” And the metal mainstays have found a suitably macabre video to match those lyrics: Director Jorge Torres-Torres frames the clip as a vignette… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Lamb […]
The first of four nights of massive CMA Music Festival stadium shows kicked off at Nashville’s LP Field Thursday night, bookended by two generations of country megastars and highlighting just how far the genre has come. Jason Aldean closed the show with attitude and swagger, while Alan Jackson got things going… Source: RollingStone Link: CMA […]
Metallica brought metal thunder to the X Games with their June 6th performance in Austin, Texas. Now, fans can glimpse the band’s pre-show process and a pummeling version of their thrash-metal classic “Whiplash,” as Blabbermouth reports. The clip opens with meet-and-greet footage of bassist Robert Trujillo, drummer Lars Ulrich and lead guitarist… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Don't blame being at Bonnaroo for missing the NBA Finals or the season finale of HBO's "Game of Thrones." Source: Yahoo Music Link: Much more than music at Bonnaroo festival
Don Henley has been quietly coming to Nashville for the last five years, slipping in and out of recording studios. Now he’s ready for everyone to know that Cass County, his first solo album in 15 years, is ready for release. In a candid, comical exchange with Nashville journalist Beverly Keel… Source: RollingStone Link: Don […]
The Bellamy Brothers are taking a different approach to a greatest hits compilation. In celebrating their 40th anniversary, the country legends’ brand-new 40 Years: The Album is a two-disc set that not only includes 20 of their best-loved hits, but also an album featuring 20 new tunes. “With greatest hits packages,… Source: RollingStone Link: The […]
Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh has created the music for a new limited edition Booji Boy Throbblehead commercial, premiering exclusively on Rolling Stone. For those unfamiliar with Devo lore, the infantile Booji Boy (pronounced Boogie Boy) character has been a part of the group’s movies and live shows since their earliest days in Akron,… Source: RollingStone Link: Booji Boy […]