Archive | June, 2015

Flashback: See Sugarland Cover R.E.M.'s 'The One I Love'

Don’t underestimate Sugarland’s love for the Peach State.  During the group’s Love on the Inside Tour in 2008, bandmates Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush began tossing a stripped-down cover of R.E.M.’s “The One I Love” into the set, tipping their hat to another one of Georgia’s highest-selling musical exports. Performed with nothing more… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: […]

Glen Campbell's Daughter Ashley Details Dad's Declining Health

The influence that Glen Campbell has had on artists of every genre is undeniable. But with the decision of his family to go public with the legendary entertainer’s 2011 Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis, his extraordinary legacy has become even more significant and farther-reaching. On Sunday, June 28th at 9:00 p.m. ET, CNN… Source: RollingStone Link: Glen […]

SiriusXM to Pay Labels $210 Million Over Copyright Battle

SiriusXM has agreed to pay independent and major record labels $210 million after the satellite radio company broadcasted pre-1972 recordings for years without compensating the labels or the artists. The agreement comes after an October 2014 court decision in which a judge ruled that while copyright law didn’t protect songs recorded prior… Source: RollingStone Link: SiriusXM to […]

Kellie Pickler: 'The Goal Is to Cash Out and Help the World'

“I don’t care about what you’re wearing or what I’m wearing. I don’t give a shit about clothes,” Kellie Pickler tells Rolling Stone Country, seated backstage at the CMT Music Awards earlier this month with her husband Kyle Jacobs. In a dress of turquoise sparkles and jeweled heels, she can certainly… Source: RollingStone Link: Kellie Pickler: […]

Phil Anselmo on Superjoint Ritual's Return: 'Everything's 100 Times Better'

For Pantera vocalist Phil Anselmo, recording and touring in the early 2000s with his hardcore metal side project Superjoint Ritual was neither enjoyable, enlightening nor politically prudent. He was battling a crippling back injury caused by years of jumping from monitors and stages, struggling with the pain through a haze… Source: RollingStone Link: Phil Anselmo […]

Watch Skrillex, Katie Couric Create Trippy EDM Jam

Skrillex and Katie Couric: a match made in interview heaven. The EDM phenom sat down with the journalist for a new installment of her Yahoo! series, “Conversations With Katie,” with the pair creating a spur-of-the-moment dubstep track filled with trippy vocal loops. “It’s a festival smash,” Skrillex says. “It’s for the children.” Elsewhere in… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

Lynyrd Skynyrd, Brantley Gilbert Talk Country Attitude, Perform ‘Name'

More than four decades since their formation in 1969, Lynyrd Skynyrd — despite numerous personnel changes and tragedies, including a 1977 plane crash that killed three of its members — still look like a band you don’t want to mess with. Bassist Johnny Colt, a onetime member of the Black Crowes who joined Skynyrd in… Source: RollingStone Link: Lynyrd […]