Last spring, while the xx were in New York for an unusually intimate 11-night residency — performing for just 45 people at a time in the cavernous Park Avenue Armory — the U.K. indie-pop band’s resident producer, Jamie xx, snuck away and bought a vintage synth. “It’s quite a rare thing, an… Source: RollingStone Link: How Jamie […]
Muse returned to their rattling, riff-heavy roots this week with the release of Drones, and to mark the occasion, the band shared a new video for “Mercy,” an epic, grandiose cut with an equally dramatic sci-fi themed video. While the clips for “Reapers” and “Psycho” found Muse playing with Drones’ themes of control in… Source: RollingStone Link: Female […]
“Some guys like Les Paul, confinement couldn’t hold them so they had to invent stuff,” said blues guitar veteran Joe Louis Walker from outside Manhattan’s Hard Rock Café, where he and dozens of other musicians gathered on June 9th for the Les Paul 100th Anniversary Celebration event. “If it wasn’t… Source: RollingStone Link: Inside the […]
Neil Young and Promise of the Real are less than three weeks away from releasing their album The Monsanto Years, and on Wednesday, they unveiled a video for new track “Wolf Moon.” It’s one of the gentler songs from their collection of protest songs against the agrochemical company Monsanto. According to the… Source: RollingStone Link: Neil Young […]
Years before Same Trailer Different Park made her one of country music’s leading women, Kacey Musgraves spent her weekends on the Texas Opry circuit, where she sang cowboy songs and western swing tunes while dressed up like Dale Evans. She resurrects that world of old-school variety shows — a place where fringe,… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
“Weird Al” Yankovic made the pilgrimage to Jack White’s Third Man Records during a recent tour stop in Nashville, stepping into the label’s 1947 “Voice-o-Graph” booth with his band and recording the a cappella chant that’s become a live staple of his Star Wars homage, “Yoda.” While no amount of squeezing would allow Al and his three… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Growing up in Miami, Derek Marks was obsessed with MTV and his favorite show was 120 Minutes, the midnight video block that brought college rock to cable and premiered the clip for “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” Creator Dave Kendall often played the role of VJ, but he also stepped aside for… Source: RollingStone Link: See Hilarious […]
The mobile video-streaming application Meerkat is providing a front-row peek at one of the nominees performing during Wednesday's telecast of the CMT network's annual music awards. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Video app Meerkat to give front-row peek at CMT Music Awards
Chance the Rapper is curating the first annual Teens in the Park festival, scheduled for Chicago’s Northerly Island on June 24th. The event, presented by the city’s park district, is free for those between 13 and 24 years old (along with adult chaperones) and will feature performances from Chance collaborator Donnie… Source: RollingStone Link: Chance the […]
Neither Richard Thompson nor Jeff Tweedy is a stranger to prolonged, torturous studio sessions leading to albums that reflect deeper turmoil. Still, Thompson’s 40th LP, is not one of them. The singer-songwriter connected with Tweedy on the Americanarama tour in 2013, and almost immediately thereafter, his latest search for a producer coincided with… Source: RollingStone Link: Richard Thompson […]