Guitarist Buddy Guy — one of the last working giants from the electric blues’ greatest generation — traces his life in mission and missing, from the crackling title cut to the B.B. King memorial “Flesh and Blood,” sung with Van Morrison, and “Come Back Muddy,” a message to Guy’s late boss, Muddy… Source: RollingStone Link: Born to […]
Released in 1982, two years after the death of drummer John Bonham, Coda was a late goodbye from the rest of Led Zeppelin — singer Robert Plant, bassist John Paul Jones and founding guitarist Jimmy Page — and paltry closure for everyone else: a mere half-hour of outtakes, including a drum solo…. Source: RollingStone Link: Coda (Reissue)
While Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas uses his time outside the band to pursue his artier impulses, guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. packs his third solo disc with the band’s signature crisp melodies, curt guitar churn and New Wave synth ripple. As a singer and lyricist, though, Hammond has an openhearted, somewhat… Source: RollingStone Link: Momentary Masters
When we first met Lianne La Havas, on her 2012 debut, she was a South London 22-year-old coming of age, electric guitar in hand. Plucking out rhythm lines that sounded like bossa nova gone rockabilly, she sang about love’s ups and downs in a voice that moved from gold to… Source: RollingStone Link: Blood
By Jill Serjeant NEW YORK (Reuters) – Broadway hip-hop musical "Hamilton" is the hottest ticket in town this summer, and George Cox is, in a word, ecstatic. Cox, founder of Seattle-based Alexander Hamilton Scholars, is one of thousands of Americans who have toiled for years to promote the much-neglected legacy of one of the founding […]
Grainge led the company through its acquisition of EMI’s labels. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Universal Music Group Extends CEO Lucian Grainge's Contract "At Least" Through 2020
“John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16” may be Keith Urban’s fastest-selling single in a decade, but the singer’s recording of the hit didn’t come together quite so rapidly. As he details in this behind-the-scenes documentary, recording the upbeat tune provided some musical challenges and a fair amount of creative angst. Urban… Source: RollingStone Link: Keith […]
Nirvana fans will be able to hear a previously unreleased song that Kurt Cobain wrote when the documentary, Montage of Heck, gets a widespread theatrical re-release on August 7th. Filmmaker Brett Morgen mixed in the tune – without re-editing what people saw in the film’s HBO broadcast – though he would… Source: RollingStone Link: Kurt Cobain […]
U2 have spent the past couple of months bringing special guests – an Elvis impersonator, a Canadian U2 cover band, Lady Gaga – onto the stage at their own shows. But on Wednesday night, they brought the act to a higher level when The Edge and Adam Clayton joined the New York-based U2… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch the […]
Willie Nelson has always relied on the kindness of his many celebrity friends, whether it’s to perform at the annual Farm Aid concerts or to share a duet with him on the seemingly endless string of LPs he has released throughout his 82 years. In April of 2002, several of… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Bon […]