While working on their new album of classic country covers — Country Evolution, due September 18th — a cappella vocal quintet Home Free crossed paths with the Oak Ridge Boys, arguably the forebears of Home Free’s style of harmony-rich country singing. The Oaks’ Duane Allen hit it off with Tim Foust,… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear the […]
Starting in September, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will be giving people around LA the chance to virtually step inside Walt Disney Hall via an Oculus Rift headset. The virtual reality experience VAN Beethoven will be based out of a specially designed truck that will make its way around Los Angeles beginning on September 11, when […]
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Earlier this week, One Direction member Niall Horan denied rumors that his pop-dominating boy band would be breaking up, clarifying that they “will be taking a well-earned break at some point next year.” Now, thanks to a wacky Conan bit from Tuesday’s episode, we have some hilarious alternatives to fill… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Conan […]
Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and some of their closest friends, all of whom perform here under the group name Hollywood Vampires, have unveiled the first official streaming track from their self-titled debut: an especially raw rendition of the Who’s “My Generation.” Cooper’s gruff vocals and Depp and second guitarist Tommy Henriksen’s chunky riffing give the classic tune a harder… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Alice […]
If the Zac Brown Band hadn’t sold out all three of its shows at Fenway Park earlier this month, selling 105,000 tickets and setting an attendance record at the hallowed Boston baseball stadium, the shows might have been a disaster. Everything costs more in a stadium — video screens, pyrotechnics, unionized workers… Source: RollingStone Link: Superstars Take […]
Carrie Underwood’s upcoming fifth studio album is called Storyteller, and the video for its lead single casts her in the role of one — albeit one who walks through the Mojave Desert in slow-mo, looking sizzling hot in fringed boots and denim shorts the size of a postage stamp. It’s… Source: RollingStone Link: See Carrie […]
Last week, the avant-garde industrial group Laibach became the first-ever Western rock group to perform in North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang. The band, which formed in 1980 in what was then the communist country Yugoslavia and is now Slovenia, performed a short set last Wednesday that was mostly composed of tunes… Source: RollingStone Link: Cannabis and […]
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson will take the helm onstage and in the air next year when the metal outfit embarks on a six-continent world tour, flying in a Boeing 747-400 Jumbo Jet piloted by the singer himself. Dates and venues are still being finalized for the 2016 trek, which will be in… Source: RollingStone Link: Bruce […]
Although the Grand Ole Opry began life in 1925 as the WSM Barn Dance radio show, emanating from the downtown Nashville offices of the National Life and Accident Insurance Company, the show’s increasing popularity necessitated the move to a series of larger venues. In 1943, after being staged at the… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: See […]