“I’m sick of this record already,” Ezra Furman sings midway through his third solo LP. Brutal honesty is a constant in the San Francisco-based singer-songwriter’s lyrics: He’s vulnerable, bitter and flawed, with gritty vocals to match. On this album, though, he’s closer to self-acceptance, as signaled by the dresses he has worn… Source: RollingStone Link: Perpetual Motion […]
The Weeknd, Skrillex and Lil Wayne also are among those headed to Jones Beach. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Billboard Hot 100 Music Festival: Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj to Perform at Inaugural Event
The Weeknd, Skrillex and Lil Wayne also are among those headed to Jones Beach. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Billboard Hot 100 Music Festival: Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj on Lineup for Inaugural Event
By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) – Singles and albums will be released on Fridays from now on, harmonizing when fans around the world can purchase new music. In a borderless business that has grown increasingly digital as artists promote their music on social media platforms, singers, record labels and retailers are aligning distribution, with July […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Confederate flag was once a familiar symbol in country music, representing the rural South and the renegade spirit of artists such as David Allan Coe and Hank Williams Jr. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Country music acts quietly abandon Confederate flag
The Grateful Dead reunited last weekend for three final, sold-out shows at Chicago’s Soldier Field, and now, audio from each gig is available to stream via New Hampshire radio station, WMWV. After two warm-up shows in the Bay Area, the Dead — with Trey Anastasio filling in for the late Jerry Garcia —… Source: RollingStone Link: Stream […]
Late last year, when Little Big Town first released their current single, “Girl Crush,” with a smoldering lead vocal from the group’s Karen Fairchild, the song’s provocative lyrics were supposedly leading some country stations to ban the tune, with listeners complaining about a message they misinterpreted as being about lesbian… Source: RollingStone Link: Little Big […]
In 2004, Howard Dean’s staff decided “We Can,” a song by country star LeAnn Rimes about achieving the impossible, was the perfect soundtrack for his presidential bid. So Joe Trippi, Dean’s campaign manager, secured the rights and contacted Rimes for permission – she agreed, as long as it was a… Source: RollingStone Link: Why Politicians […]
Mysterious cult-sensation songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, the subject of the Oscar-winning 2012 documentary Searching for Sugar Man, was once presumed dead, but he’s alive and well both at home in Detroit and in the storytelling mind of Nashville’s Rayland Baxter. Off of his second album, the upcoming Imaginary Man, Baxter’s new… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Rayland […]
This month, America finally came to terms with the fact that proudly flying a pro-slavery flag more than 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation might not be the most enlightened idea. Early this morning, South Carolina passed a bill that would make the flag as legal on government grounds as a fistful of… Source: RollingStone Link: Why […]