Lionel Richie will receive the 2016 MusiCares Person of the Year award early next year in honor of his storied music career and charitable work for myriad causes including AIDS, breast cancer, human rights, famine, poverty and human trafficking. Richie will be celebrated at the 26th annual MusiCares benefit gala, set for… Source: RollingStone Link: Lionel […]
Dr. Dre and Ice Cube have filed a motion asking a judge to remove them as defendants in a wrongful death lawsuit, stemming from the incident when rap mogul Suge Knight ran over and killed a man named Terry Carter earlier this year. The suit, which Carter’s widow Lilian filed in… Source: RollingStone Link: Dr. Dre, […]
“A change would do you good,” Sheryl Crow sang at the start of a huge event in Nashville Monday night celebrating Rolling Stone Films and Rolling Stone Country, and presented by Patrón. Her 1997 hit was a fitting choice to kick off the party in the town she has called home… Source: RollingStone Link: See Sheryl […]
Waka Flocka Flame has returned with another enthusiastic trap song, “Workin,” which serves as the official first single off his upcoming album Flockaveli 2. Tarentino produced the hard-hitting tune, which follows up many of the hard-style EDM tracks Waka Flocka has appeared on recently. Previously, the rapper had dropped a single produced… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]
We Sixties rock & roll shooters are getting old! No surprise there. But years ago it occurred to me that when we, one by one, all go to that big darkroom in the sky, our photos remain but the stories behind the photos go to Heaven with us. That fact… Source: RollingStone Link: Rolling Stone's […]
“Check, check, check, hi, hello… Thank you so hard.” The sturdy redhead behind the mic is Joshua Homme, the singer-guitarist-leader of Queens of the Stone Age, sitting in the shadows as he prepares to record another weekly episode of The Alligator Hour, his show for Apple’s Beats 1 Internet radio station. Barely 20… Source: RollingStone Link: How […]
Various artists, “Ricki and the Flash” original motion picture soundtrack (Republic Records) Source: Yahoo Music Link: Music Review: Meryl Streep seduces on Ricki soundtrack
A professor from England’s Kingston University will be dressing as each David Bowie persona for the next year in an effort to better understand the elusive rock star. Along with Bowie’s unique garb, film and cultural studies professor Will Brooker will also “method-act” personas like Ziggy Stardust and the Thin… Source: RollingStone Link: Professor to […]
For his 10th annual Miles and Music for Kids charity concert, Dierks Bentley is enlisting some big guns. Set for November 1st in Nashville, the daylong motorcycle ride and riverside jam features country-soul “It artist” Thomas Rhett, Florida Georgia Line, Cole Swindell, the Cadillac Three, Canaan Smith and Brooke Eden. Beginning… Source: RollingStone Link: Dierks […]
In 1991, the members of seminal feminist punk band Bikini Kill — Kathleen Hanna, Kathi Wilcox, Tobi Vail and Billy Karren — played one of their first shows together at an Olympia, Washington, club called ABC House. The next day, with their equipment still set up, the band recorded 11 demo songs… Source: RollingStone Link: Bikini Kill […]