Paris (AFP) – London is partial to local hip hop duo Krept and Kronan and art rock band Everything Everything. Sydney lends its ears to electro dance producer Golden Features. Rio loves funk singer MC Nego do Borel. Source: Yahoo Music Link: What are London's fave tunes? Sydney's? Rio's? Spotify maps the music
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rhapsody International, the operator of the Rhapsody and Napster streaming music services, says it has surpassed 3 million paying subscribers globally as more consumers realize the benefits of offline listening. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Rhapsody tops 3 million paying music subscribers globally
Five months ago, Cruz Contreras was trying hard not to panic. As the frontman of the Black Lillies, he’d spent the first few weeks of 2015 on a boat, playing his band’s blend of Appalachian country and envelope-pushing Americana to passengers on the Cayamo Cruise. When the group returned home to Knoxville in… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]
Dinosaur Jr. bassist and Sebadoh frontman Lou Barlow will release his new solo LP Brace the Wave, his first album in six years, on September 4th. “Brace the Wave is an acoustic-electric record recorded with electricity on analog-digital and digitally-analog equipment,” Barlow jokes in a teaser that features snippets of… Source: RollingStone Link: Lou Barlow […]
Sylvia Tyson, half of the Canadian folk duo Ian & Sylvia, was in the midst of recording at RCA’s Nashville studio when she noticed something odd. Glancing into the control room, she saw a bunch of strangers — many of them local musicians — intently watching her and her then-husband… Source: RollingStone Link: Inside Ian […]
Gunplay’s eyes well up with tears. He’s playing “Just Won’t Do,” the second track off his upcoming debut LP, Living Legend, in the dimly lit refuge of DJ Khaled’s North Miami recording studio, animating each lyric with his entire body. The Carol City rapper, also known as Don Logan, pauses… Source: RollingStone Link: Gunplay on […]
It’s one of the biggest decisions any band will face: what to call themselves. And yet, so many get it so wrong. Fortunately, for every group that comes up with a terrible name and sticks with it, there’s a band that comes up with a terrible name, plays a few shows under… Source: RollingStone Link: 25 Worst […]
More than two decades after releasing her classic video for “Opposites Attract,” Paula Abdul recreated the clip’s cheese-tastic choreography with James Corden on Tuesday’s Late Late Show. The singer, wearing a late Eighties-styled white pantsuit, brought those dance moves back to life with Corden, who slapped on a fake tail and whiskers… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Paula […]
Elvis Presley’s light blue “Starburst” jumpsuit, as well as a guitar signed by the King and his Million Dollar Quartet bandmates — Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis — are among numerous items set to go up for auction at Graceland in August. The auction will take place in the… Source: RollingStone Link: Elvis […]
A quarter of a century ago, punk firebrands Social Distortion modded out their sound with country swagger and rock & roll looseness on their influential self-titled, major-label debut. Songs like “Story of My Life,” “Ball and Chain” and “It Could Have Been Me” found bandleader Mike Ness parsing past relationships and… Source: RollingStone Link: Story of […]