Post pop-crossover, Taylor Swift has kept close Nashville ties and plenty of country tunes on her personal playlist. Just watch her during any country performance at an awards show, and, chances are, she’s belting every lyric from her front-row seat. Case in point: last month’s Billboard Music Awards, when the… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Taylor […]
Dr. Dre is far too cool to attend WWDC, the San Francisco developers’ conference where Apple is expected to announce its relaunch of the Beats Music streaming service Monday. But Beats most likely wouldn’t exist without him. Dre is best known as a superstar producer for Eminem, Mary J. Blige and… Source: RollingStone Link: Dr. […]
“It’s a very important album for us,” says Matt Pike about Luminiferous, the seventh and latest full-length offering from his sludgy thrash trio High on Fire. “Before, I’d be all like, ‘How do we top the last one?’ But this ain’t about topping; this is about, ‘How do we express… Source: RollingStone Link: High on […]
Some investors fear the soon-to-launch Apple product could slow the growth of rival services like Pandora and Rhapsody. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Apple Music Sinks Rivals' Stocks
TNT, TBS and TruTV will simulcast the annual event as Turner continues its live push. Source: Yahoo Music Link: iHeartRadio Music Awards Move From NBC to Turner
Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield delivered a six string salute to the United States with a tasteful, but heavy rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the X Games in Austin, Texas on Saturday. Hammett took lead on the instrumental version of the national anthem, subtly nudging his wah-wah pedal throughout,… Source: RollingStone Link: Metallica […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple's iTunes helped change the way music-lovers bought their favorite songs, replacing plastic discs with digital downloads. Now the maker of iPods and iPhones wants to carve out a leading role in a revolution well underway, with a new, paid streaming-music service set to launch this summer. Source: Yahoo Music Link: […]
Singer Ronnie Gilbert, who helped catalyze the folk revolution of the 1960s as one fourth of the Weavers, died of natural causes on Saturday in a retirement community outside of San Francisco, The New York Times reports. Her longtime partner, Donna Korones, confirmed the death. She was 88. Gilbert’s striking contralto was a distinct voice… Source: RollingStone Link: Ronnie […]
Chris Martin performed Coldplay’s “‘Til Kingdom Come” at the funeral for Beau Biden, the son of Vice President Joe Biden, who died May 30th of brain cancer at the age of 46. The funeral was held on Saturday at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Biden’s longtime home of… Source: RollingStone Link: Chris Martin […]
Marco Rubio is well known for his love of hip-hop, so the Republican primary candidate was given the opportunity to expound on the subject of “modern-day poets” during a visit to the Fox News talk show Outnumbered on Thursday. After some discussion of the Florida Senator’s record on immigration, one of the… Source: RollingStone Link: Marco […]