How good is Dr. Dre’s first album in more than a decade? Source: Yahoo Music Link: Dr. Dre, Mac DeMarco, Chelsea Wolfe and The Mynabirds Music Reviews

In 1998, songwriter Bobby Braddock (“D-I-V-O-R-C-E,” “He Stopped Loving Her Today”) was getting ready to produce a new artist from Oklahoma. In his upcoming memoir, A Life on Music Row, due this fall, Braddock recalls that the singer was “tall, funny, irreverent, mullet-headed and talented.” Today, that artist is known… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Blake […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Leslie Fram started seeing the problems that women were facing in country music when she came to Nashville four years ago to lead CMT's music strategy division. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Women push for equality, and quality, in country music

Rock legend Patti Smith is teaming with Showtime for a limited series adaptation of her 2010 memoir, Just Kids. Showtime president David Nevins announced the project Tuesday during the Television Critics Assocation’s summer press tour, noting that Smith will co-write and co-produce the series with Penny Dreadful creator John Logan, according… Source: RollingStone Link: Patti Smith […]

To many fans of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, Allen Klein is nothing but a one-dimensional villain. He’s the guy that swooped down at the legendary bands’ most vulnerable moments, somehow tricked these otherwise smart people into making him their manager and then took off like a thief in the night… Source: RollingStone Link: Inside Allen […]

When you hear a Beach House song, there’s no mistaking who’s behind it. Over 10-plus years and five albums — counting Depression Cherry, out August 28th — Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally have forged a singular sonic identity. The boilerplate descriptor for the band’s sound has always been “dream pop,” and there’s… Source: RollingStone Link: Beach House […]

High-profile music documentaries on Janis Joplin, Arcade Fire, Aretha Franklin and Sharon Jones will be included as part of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which commences September 10th.  Janis: Little Girl Blue, directed by Academy Award-nominated Amy Berg (Deliver Us From Evil), will make its North American premiere at the… Source: RollingStone Link: Janis […]

When Depeche Mode titled their 1990 album Violator, it was supposed to be taken ironically. The previous year had seen smarmy hair-mongers like Bon Jovi, Bad English and Poison scoring Number Ones with saccharine power balladry, and the leather-clad, synth-pop group had understandably “gotten enough.” So they exacted vengeance on… Source: RollingStone Link: Are Depeche […]

Art imitated life at the Grand Ole Opry last weekend when longtime Opry member “Whisperin’ Bill” Anderson and Jamey Johnson performed their duet “The Guitar Song” — a tune about a guitar that hangs on the wall of a pawn shop, far away from the barroom stages where it once “helped… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch 'Whisperin' […]

The Grand Ole Opry, heard each week on Nashville’s 650 WSM-AM, is the longest running live radio show in American history. Since it began in November 1925, each of the show’s more than 5,600 performances has offered something special for country music fans tuning in throughout the world. But for… Source: RollingStone Link: Grand Ole […]