There is – even at this juncture in my game – a first time for everything. On the gloriously sunny morning of August 1st, I walked through a stone tunnel at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island, into my first Newport Jazz Festival. I was a day late…. Source: RollingStone Link: Fricke's First […]
Anyone able to count to nine could tell right away that something was amiss when Slipknot took the stage at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield, Massachusetts, on Tuesday. Not that audience members at the 19,000-capacity shed seemed to notice as the band emerged to a recording of “XIX,” the brief overture to their newest album,… Source: RollingStone Link: Slipknot Stage […]
There was only one man for this job. Who else but Billy Joel could host a massive farewell party to Long Island arena Nassau Coliseum? Who else had the personal connection to the area, the catalog to sustain a thrilling three-hour-and-20-minute show or the undying adoration of Long Islanders from Montauk to… Source: RollingStone Link: Billy Joel […]
Pop legend James Taylor scored his very first Number One album this year with Before This World, 38 years after his best-selling album of all time, JT, was released. The 1977 disc would go on to sell nearly four million copies. A singer-songwriter who built his early career on confessional, folk-influenced… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: James […]
Keith Richards remains unimpressed by the record Rolling Stone named the Greatest Album of All Time, the Beatles’ 1967 LP Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. In a recent interview with Esquire, the Rolling Stones guitarist pitted the album against his band’s own psychedelic experiment, released the same year. “The Beatles… Source: RollingStone Link: Keith […]
After building buzz via live shows and two EPs, the Australian singer-songwriter released her debut indie rock album in March to critical acclaim. This debut album was one of the year's most-anticipated for indie fans, many of whom had become well-acquainted with the North London alternative rock band through touring and EPs. American folk musician […]
Jon Batiste gets off the elevator and doesn’t say a word to the percussionists already tapping out rhythms for a rooftop soundcheck at New York’s NoMad Hotel — he just plops down at the white Steinway and joins in. There’s not much of an audience beyond a handful of photographers,… Source: RollingStone Link: Meet Jon […]
Buffy Saint-Marie, Don Henley, Ricky Skaggs, Los Lobos, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings will all receive lifetime achievement awards at September’s Americana Music Honors and Awards Ceremony at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. “These artists have not only influenced the Americana community, but the musical landscape on the whole,” says Jed Hilly, Executive… Source: RollingStone Link: Don […]
It will be Elvis, only like you’ve never heard him before. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Elvis Presley to be backed by soaring orchestral music in new album
The unlikely union of TV on the Radio singer Tunde Adebimpe, Faith No More frontman Mike Patton and rapper Adam “Doseone” Drucker – who call themselves Nevermen – will finally release their years-in-the-making self-titled debut this fall. But for now, the trio is teasing the album with the quirky, cinematic avant-pop… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear TV […]