Happy 50th birthday to Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan’s strangest, funniest, most baffling and most perfect album. Released on August 30th, 1965, it arrived just five months after his previous masterpiece, Bringing It All Back Home, but this was a different guy making a different album, a folk rogue embracing the weirdness… Source: RollingStone Link: Happy Birthday, […]
As part of a performance of her debut album Horses in the studio where she recorded it, Patti Smith sang her beatific cover of Them’s “Gloria” twice. The first time was as the set opener, in which she transitioned from reading the poem off an LP copy of the record… Source: RollingStone Link: Patti Smith […]
This time last year, Alex Giannascoli was on the cusp of something big. The singer-songwriter, who records as Alex G, had recently finished his junior year at Philadelphia’s Temple University and released his breakthrough album, a fire-bright indie-pop gem called DSU, on the tiny Brooklyn label Orchid Tapes. His house shows… Source: RollingStone Link: Indie-Pop Prodigy […]
After Carrie Underwood’s surprise announcement last week that her next album, Storyteller will hit stores October 23rd, fans are now anxiously awaiting another big reveal: the likely massive tour in support of the project. Even just five albums into her career, the country superstar could fill a whole show with nothing… Source: RollingStone Link: Readers' Poll: […]
Jay Rock, a member of Kendrick Lamar’s Black Hippy collective, will release his new LP 90059 in the coming weeks, and on Thursday, the rapper shared the album cut “Easy Bake” featuring Top Dawg labelmate Lamar. The song, which premiered on Sirius XM’s Shade 45 (via Pitchfork), finds the Los Angeles… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Kendrick […]
The veteran actor goes searching for talent in Afghanistan in the latest look at Barry Levinson’s new dramedy, co-starring Zooey Deschanel, Kate Hudson and Danny McBride. Source: Yahoo Music Link: New 'Rock the Kasbah' Trailer: Bill Murray's Music Manager Loses a Singer, Finds a Potential "Star"
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Justin Bieber will be back on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Justin Bieber to perform at MTV Video Music Awards
Queen food writer Ruth Reichl is making an appearance at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts on Monday, August 31 as part of the center's lecture series (and probably to promote her upcoming cookbook). The event brings together food from the likes of Chica, Hal Jr's Bar B Q and ShakeDown Ice Cream, craft beer […]
Ethiopian-American singer Kenna has announced he’ll release his new album Songs for Flight as part of a crowdfunding campaign that will also raise money for deserving causes around the world. With the project, which set a goal of $350,000 in the next six weeks, Kenna becomes the first One-for-One artist, meaning,… Source: RollingStone Link: Kenna Plots […]
A grown-up A$AP Rocky struggles with painkillers, plastic surgery and the passage of time in his new video for “Everyday,” the Rod Stewart-sampling cut off his new LP At.Long.Last.A$AP. Dubbed a “Hip-Hop Hollywood Story,” the “Everyday” video opens up the same way as Sunset Blvd. — another cautionary tale about fame and fortune — did 65… Source: RollingStone Link: A$AP Rocky […]