Lindsay Ell recently returned from touring Europe with Luke Bryan, and she credits that experience with helping her reach a new level of artistry. “Luke is an incredible performer, but then you get to meet the guy behind the music, and he’s just a great human being,” she tells Rolling… Source: RollingStone Link: Lindsay Ell […]

NME magazine, for decades Britain's authoritative voice on guitar music, announced Monday that it will be free of charge from September after circulation dropped below 15,000. Launched in 1952 as the New Musical Express, the £2.50 (3.5-euro, $3.9) weekly said it would be printing 300,000 copies to distribute in stations, universities and shops. Editor Mike […]

Earlier this year, Disclosure reunited with an old friend. As the English dance music duo neared the finish line on their second LP, Caracal (due out September 25th), they invited singer Sam Smith to come hang out at their new studio in London’s St. John’s Wood neighborhood. “It was really… Source: RollingStone Link: Disclosure Double […]

Will Smith appeared on his son Jaden's Beats 1 radio show that's new on Apple Music and revealed that he is at work on new tunes with the rapper Drake. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Will Smith has music in the works with Drake

The Roots welcomed an unexpected guest during their Philly’s Fourth of July Jam Saturday night: Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter, who led the Tonight Show band in a rendition of Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight.” After weathering early microphone troubles, the 58-year-old politician delivered a near-perfect cover of the hip-hop classic, tackling every… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Roots […]

As the Grateful Dead prepare to bid you goodnight with one final Fare Thee Well show at Chicago’s Soldier Field Sunday night, President Barack Obama, a longtime Chicagoan, has paid tribute to the long-running jam legends with a message congratulating the group on their 50th anniversary and enduring legacy. “Here’s to fifty years of… Source: RollingStone Link: Barack […]

Dave Grohl is the kind of affable, down-to-earth rock star who you might not expect to indulge in grand gestures like, say, having a special throne built for him to sit in while performing. But that’s just the extravagant stage prop he unveiled on Saturday night at Washington, D.C.’s RFK Stadium,… Source: RollingStone Link: Foo Fighters […]

Dr. Dre opened up The Pharmacy Saturday night on Apple Music’s Beats 1, and the G-Funk extraordinaire used his debut hour-long radio program to praise the late J Dilla as well as discuss the upcoming N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton. “There’s actually a lot of producers that I like to listen to…. Source: RollingStone Link: Dr. Dre […]

And that’s the thing about Grateful Dead shows. Sometimes everything comes together. Other times? Not so much. Night Number Two of the three-night Fare Thee Well goodbye shows at Chicago’s Soldier Field had moments, as every Dead show has moments. There was a lovely, handsomely abstracted “Bird Song,” the Janis Joplin… Source: RollingStone Link: Grateful […]

“Lennon/McCartney” is one of music’s greatest songwriting credits, a catchall that covered most of the Beatles’ tracks and was employed even when John Lennon and Paul McCartney didn’t collaborate on a certain song. However, although arranged alphabetically, the ensuing decades have favored Lennon’s placement in the songwriting credit, suggesting that Lennon had… Source: RollingStone Link: Paul McCartney […]