Margo Price, a fixture of the East Nashville music community, has signed with Jack White’s Third Man Records to release her debut album. Titled Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, the LP is slated to arrive in March 2016. Price, one of Rolling Stone Country’s Artists You Need to Know, possesses a Loretta Lynn… Source: RollingStone Link: Margo […]
Insane Clown Posse scored a major victory in their efforts to remove their “Juggalos” fanbase from the FBI’s list of organized gangs as a federal appeals court ordered that a Michigan court hear the case. ICP’s lawsuit against the FBI, filed with the assistance of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan,… Source: RollingStone Link: Insane Clown […]
Their sound: That magical combination of dissonant, Pavement-esque and pavement-ready garage rock & roll with a keen grasp of how to make it all wildly melodic — thanks to super-sticky riffs, restrained psychedelia and a sense of composition that’s restless, surprising and pretty fearless. Big Break: There is certainly no shortage… Source: RollingStone Link: Blank […]
Paul Simon appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last week to perform “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard,” though he was officially billed as the lead singer of the fictitious Paul Simon tribute act Troubled Waters. Colbert even created a website for the bogus group, listing 2012 dates like… Source: RollingStone Link: Weekend Rock […]
John Malkovich: actor, director, portal vessel, sonic explorer. The performer has teamed with an eclectic group of musicians – including Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon, the Cars’ Ric Ocasek, OMD, Young the Giant, Dweezil Zappa and the Dandy Warhols – to create Like a Puppet Show, a Record Store Day Black Friday vinyl… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear John […]
Prince’s new album opens with allusions to “1999” and “Let’s Go Crazy.” But it’s less a re-creation of those Eighties classics than an attempt by the more restless-minded Prince of today to reimagine the funky precision and effortless mastery of his glory days in new ways. It might be the… Source: RollingStone Link: Hit N […]
T.I. says he’s still working with Australian rapper/Grand Hustle signee Iggy Azalea, despite stating in a recent radio interview that their relationship had taken “a bit of a rest stop.” In a new interview with The Associated Press, T.I. calls Azalea his “little sister,” adding, “That’s still my partner.” ”Her life has taken… Source: RollingStone Link: T.I. […]
With a retooled road band that, for this performance, swapped out Waylon Jennings’ pedal steel guitarist Robby Turner for Willie Nelson’s harmonica player, Chris Stapleton stopped by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night to perform “Nobody to Blame.” Lean and mean, the Traveller track spins the story of a guilty drunk whose… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Chris […]
Twisted Sister were riding high in 1985 when they got wind that a committee calling itself the Parents Music Resource Center had singled them out, along with a handful of other artists, for ostensibly making obscene music. The previous year, the mascara’d headbangers had put out Stay Hungry, an album… Source: RollingStone Link: Dee Snider […]
There is little dispute that, between 1978 and 1984, the three greatest rappers anywhere from Planet Earth to Planet Rock were Grandmaster Melle Mel, Grandmaster Caz and Kool Moe Dee. Despite basically being the Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Bo Diddley of what Jay Z does for a living, they’re… Source: RollingStone Link: Hip-Hop Pioneers […]