“I’m not an outlaw country singer,” Luke Bryan recently informed a journalist. No shit: He’s a platinum-selling bro-country standard-bearer, a stadium-packing spring-break soundtracker, a good ol’ boy you could bring home to Mom — a pop star with a drawl, a ball cap and a Chevy Z71 full of cheeseball power-ballad… Source: RollingStone Link: Kill the […]
Lil B has been a cult hero since the glory days of MySpace. To many people, that’s still all he is — a stand-in for all the kids who yell “swag swag,” for everyone who’s still doing the cooking dance or signing their tweets “Thank You Based God.” But the Bay Area… Source: RollingStone Link: Free (Based […]
Who in the world has better ears than Andre Young? Throughout his many incarnations, the common thread in Dr. Dre’s career has been his ability to hear things differently from everyone else, and his certitude that millions of paying customers will want to hear those things too. Paradoxically, he’s been… Source: RollingStone Link: Compton
He was rich long before Apple dropped $3.2 billion on him to buy Beats by Dre.”I remember selling instrumentals off a beeper/Before the headphones or the speakers,” Dre raps, reminiscing about bygone days, on “Talk About It.” “I was getting money ‘fore the Internet/Still got Eminem checks I ain’t open… Source: RollingStone Link: 10 Things […]
Of all the impassioned encomiums delivered to Nile Rodgers during Chic’s set at Rodgers’ inaugural FOLD Festival Tuesday night in Riverhead, NY, Pharrell Williams’ words were the most precise. “This man has been on fire since before I was born. The creativity burned that cancer out of his body,” Pharrell told the… Source: RollingStone Link: Nile […]
Robin Thicke is gunning for another hit off a blockbuster collaboration, teaming with Nicki Minaj and super-producer Max Martin for the bombastic dance floor harbinger, “Back Together.” Where “Blurred Lines” — Thicke’s 2013 hit with Pharrell and T.I. — was a (perhaps too accurate) pastiche of mid-Seventies R&B, “Back Together” boasts a bumping Studio… Source: RollingStone Link: Robin […]
Miami shout-rapper Gunplay is a singular voice in Southern rap. He’s got the high-octane, high-volume, permanent hypeman delivery of Waka Flocka Flame, but he’s also an intricate rhyme writer in the tradition laid down by old school New York rappers like Big Daddy Kane. The 36-year-old rapper likely remembers the… Source: RollingStone Link: Living Legend
1. For the past five years, the world’s biggest pop group has been the world’s biggest classic-rock band, doing their “Baba O’Riley” remake every night for 60,000 screaming girls. “People like us don’t get to play stages like this,” Harry Styles said last night at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, and he’s… Source: RollingStone Link: 16 Reasons […]
Puff Daddy enlists Pharrell and heads underground to turn up in the alternately grimy and vibrant new video for the hip hop mogul’s latest single, “Finna Get Loose.” Directed by Hype Williams, the clip opens in stark black and white, conjuring the opening credits to Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing as the… Source: RollingStone Link: Puff […]
The Lyons better watch out. Fox has ordered Star, a new pilot from Empire co-creator Lee Daniels, the network announced Thursday at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. Set in Atlanta, Star will tell the story of three ambitious young women who form a girl band. " talks about Dreamgirls to modern-day girl groups […]