The Big Apple will host two of country’s biggest stars and a couple of Hall of Famers this fall, in a fundraising concert that sends the proceeds right back to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. This year’s edition of the annual All for the Hall… Source: RollingStone Link: Carrie Underwood […]
Tom DeLonge and best-selling author Suzanne Young will release their new book, and first in a planned trilogy, Poet Anderson… Of Nightmares, on October 6th via publisher Simon & Schuster. Per a statement, the novel is set in “an unknown world where dreams meet reality and the chasm between the two… Source: RollingStone Link: Tom […]
For Turnpike Troubadours — a band that takes its name from the Indian Nation Turnpike, a 105-mile parkway stretched across southeastern Oklahoma — there’s no place like home. Armed with songs about love, loss and life in the Sooner State, the country-rockers have built one of the fiercest followings in… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Turnpike […]
New Order have revealed that Killers frontman Brandon Flowers, Iggy Pop, La Roux and Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands will appear on their upcoming LP, Music Complete. The record is due out September 25th. Flowers, whose band took its name from the fake group featured in New Order’s “Crystal” video, sings on the album’s closing number… Source: RollingStone Link: New […]
After a decade-long wait, the unlikely pairing of Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian are finally releasing an album’s worth of music. The duo had first announced their project Achozen (pronounced “a chosen”) in the mid-2000s, around when the bassist was hyping an ill-fated online… Source: RollingStone Link: RZA and […]
Before Ringo Starr was one-fourth of the most famous pop group in history, he was Richard Starkey, a sickly child born July 7th, 1940, in Liverpool, England, and raised in and out of hospitals for most of his childhood. A lifelong fan of country music, in 1959 Starkey joined a… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: See […]
Exactly 10 years ago this week — on July 2nd, 2005, to be exact — the classic lineup of Pink Floyd reunited for a stunning four-song set at Live 8. It was their first time playing together since The Wall tour ended in June 1981, and the tragic death of Floyd… Source: RollingStone Link: Pink Floyd […]
As Kellie Pickler gears up to begin filming her new CMT reality series (tentatively titled I Love Kellie Pickler) the bubbly singer, Dancing With the Stars champ and former American Idol contestant sat down with Rolling Stone Country to talk about the newest chapter of her life. “It’s exciting to let… Source: RollingStone Link: Kellie […]
U2 fans saw double during the band’s concert in Toronto Monday night, when the Irish rock outfit brought out local tribute act Acrobat for a spirited performance of the Rattle and Hum hit, “Desire.” A fan-shot video captured the performance, which found Acrobat taking lead on the song while U2 stood nearby watching, before ultimately… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Revered rapper-producer Pete Rock followed up on his 2001 instrumental compilation Petestrumentals last month with Petestrumentals 2, a new batch of original tracks pairing hard, MPC 3000 beats with the soul and funk samples that have made him an icon among beatheads. Now, Stones Throw producer, Beat Junkies founder and Pete Rock acolyte… Source: RollingStone Link: Pete Rock's […]