Philadelphia duo Marian Hill — Jeremy Lloyd and Samantha Gongol — fused R&B, electronica and saxophone-heavy jazz influences on their second EP, Sway, which arrived in February via Republic/Photo Finish. Their songs have been taking off on Spotify and Vine, and they recently stopped by Rolling Stone’s studio to perform a trio of tracks for our Sperry… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Marian […]
Over the past 30 years, Joe Satriani has proven himself to be one of the most imaginative, brilliant and talented rock guitarists ever to strum six strings. He’s played guitar with Mick Jagger, Deep Purple and Chickenfoot. As a guitar teacher, his pupils included guitar prodigy Steve Vai, Metallica shredder… Source: RollingStone Link: See Joe […]
Today the ladies of The Talk challenged 50 Cent to a game of Guess Which or Die Tryin', in which the rapper was questioned about pairs of images. See the hilarious GIFs! Source: Yahoo Music Link: How well does 50 Cent know his own music facts?
In an undated letter after Eminem broke out, the rapper penned a heartfelt letter to Afeni Shakur, Tupac’s mom, and enclosed a drawing he’d made of the “California Love” rapper. “When I was feeling at my ‘worst’ (before fame, before Dre), I knew I could put that ‘Tupac’ tape in… Source: RollingStone Link: Read Eminem's […]
Before he hit it big with Radiohead, Thom Yorke went to University of Exeter and joined the band Headless Chickens. Now, archival footage of Yorke in his college band has been posted to YouTube, including an early, faster version of “High and Dry” off Radiohead’s sophomore album The Bends. As noted by… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
The writer of achingly beautiful songs died after a long battle with cancer. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Joan Sebastian, Mexican Music Superstar, Dies at 64
The recently formed group Summer Moon, whose lineup includes members of the Strokes, Au Revoir Simone and the Like, has released an upbeat, spacey new song called “With You Tonight.” Trippy guitars echo and bounce off handclaps and keyboard strings as Strokes bassist Nikolai Fraiture sings about hiding and dancing with… Source: RollingStone Link: Strokes, Au […]
Rapper 2 Chainz assumed the new alter ego of Master Collaborator, a high-octane sax machine, in a hilarious video with Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele advertising Arizona’s premiere wedding band, Absorption. But as Key and Peele reveal, Absorption is no ordinary wedding band. They don’t just cover the hits; they rewrite them… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Neil Young was on the road with his band the Restless in February of 1989 when he learned that a planned cultural exchange, which would have brought him to Russia, wasn’t going to pan out. “They were getting us in exchange for the Russian Ballet,” Restless/Crazy Horse guitarist Frank “Poncho” Sampedro told… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Neil […]
Kim Carnes will forever be linked to her massive 1981 hit, “Bette Davis Eyes,” a song that spent nine weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, but she readily acknowledges that since that Grammy-winning hit she’s had something of a “PR problem.” Although the song’s success both at… Source: RollingStone Link: Songwriter Spotlight: […]