Jake Owen invited Rolling Stone Country out to Nashville’s Commodore Yacht Club to share, like the title of his current single, his “Real Life” on the water, aboard his tricked-out ski boat. The event was put together by Owen’s tour sponsor, Discover Boating, a campaign aimed at helping people experience the… Source: RollingStone Link: Boat Life: […]
Prior to Foo Fighters’ epic, all-day 20th anniversary concert July 4th in Washington, D.C., Dave Grohl organized a Rally & Ride motorcycle event for the morning of the RFK Stadium gig. The 9:30 a.m. party offered up a chef-made breakfast, coffee and a surprise concert with Grohl fronting a semi-supergroup of fellow rockers… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Dave […]
The acclaimed Amy Winehouse documentary Amy is set for a wider release to U.S. theaters this weekend, and although critics have raved about the intense, probing film, some of those closest to the singer have campaigned against Amy. While Winehouse’s family have announced that they “disassociated” from the documentary because it casts the… Source: RollingStone Link: Mark Ronson: […]
Yogi’s “Burial” with Pusha T became a surprise hit when it arrived in 2014, and now the track has a new remix – courtesy of Skrillex, TrollPhace and Moody Good – plus an insane music video starring the Clipse rapper, an elastic dance troupe and, oddly, Dennis Rodman. The remixed version of… Source: RollingStone Link: See Yogi, […]
Twenty-four years ago today — July 6th, 1991 — Alan Jackson’s “Don’t Rock the Jukebox” hit Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, earning the budding star his second chart-topper and cementing his traditionalist status just as country was moving to incorporate more mainstream pop sounds. The… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: See […]
Anthony Vincent, the metalhead with a million voices who posts genre-hopping cover songs on YouTube under the alias Ten Second Songs, has returned after a two-month hiatus with his rendition of Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” remix featuring Kendrick Lamar. After kicking things off with a solid impression of the To… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Taylor […]
Geto Boys member Scarface suffered from an unspecified medical condition that forced the rapper to be hospitalized on June 30th. According to the Geto Boys’ Kickstarter – where the horrorcore trio of Willie D, Scarface and Bushwick Bill are raising money for their new LP Habeas Corpus – Scarface sought medical… Source: RollingStone Link: Geto Boys' […]
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood paid a surprise visit to the Grand Ole Opry recently, punctuating a two-week period of free time between concerts in Birmingham, Alabama, and Houston with a performance on country music’s longest-running radio show. “I love this girl with all my heart,” announced Vince Gill, who served as the… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]
An electric guitar signed by Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann was auctioned for $526,000 on Sunday during the band’s epic “Fare Thee Well” concert in Chicago. The commemorative six-string – played onstage by Weir during the band’s June 28th show in Santa Clara, California… Source: RollingStone Link: Signed Grateful […]
A definition of symmetry: On May 5th, 1965, the Warlocks – a San Francisco rock band that would soon rename themselves the Grateful Dead – played their first show at a pizza parlor, Magoo’s, in Menlo Park. Fifty years later, on July 5th, I saw the surviving members of the… Source: RollingStone Link: The Grateful […]