Forty years ago, the life and career of Hank Williams, Jr. was at a crossroads. A chart fixture for over a decade, the country singer had grown weary of recording by the typical Nashville rules. His style began to change on 1975’s Hank Williams Jr. and Friends, a musically adventurous… Source: RollingStone Link: Hank Williams, […]
The Who’s ongoing 50th-anniversary tour resumes September 14th in Portland, Oregon, but those that can’t make one of the shows can head to their local movie theater on October 8th to see The Who in Hyde Park. The film features a complete concert taped June 26th, 2015, at London’s Hyde Park, as… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch the […]
Funkadelic and Boston production duo Soul Clap enjoy a casual Corvette cruise and confront the horrors of unmitigated oil consumption in the surreal live-action/claymation clip for “In Da Kar.” Recorded during the pair’s 2013 sessions — and featuring a rare appearance from Sly Stone on keys — “In Da Kar” boasts a slick,… Source: RollingStone Link: Sly […]
Seven months after the release of Terraplane, Steve Earle is already working on new music, funneling his frustration with America’s ongoing Confederate flag debate — an issue that continues to divide the Bible Belt, with Mississippi refusing to remove the Confederate emblem from its own state flag — into a newly-released… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Steve […]
For years, Lee Ving, the vocalist and leader of impish punk bruisers Fear, has been teasing the release of a song the group recorded with John Belushi in 1981. He’s finally putting out the tune — the appropriately snotty-sounding “Neighbors,” which was supposed to accompany the Belushi movie of the same… Source: RollingStone Link: Inside John […]
In 1965, Ronnie Wood was a largely unknown teenage guitarist gigging around London with his blues-rock band the Birds. The whole time, the future Rolling Stones member kept a diary and scrapbook highlighting his encounters with acts like the Who and the Yardbirds, though he put it away and didn’t dig it… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Ronnie […]
Kendrick Lamar performed a beautifully crafted medley of tracks from To Pimp a Butterfly on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Wednesday night, intricately stitching together renditions of “Wesley’s Theory,” “Momma,” “King Kunta” and “u.” Both “Wesley’s Theory” and “Momma” were marked by a purposefully disjointed interplay between Lamar and his band:… Source: RollingStone Link: Kendrick […]
Singer Lana Del Rey has released a new track from her upcoming album "Honeymoon" called "Music To Watch Boys To." Source: Yahoo Music Link: Lana Del Rey unveils 'Music To Watch Boys To'
Without proper license deals, the offer, which is in its early planning stages, wouldn’t be viable, says a trade group. Source: Yahoo Music Link: U.K. Music Industry: BBC Must Pay Royalties for Planned Music Streaming Service
Hours after Survivor co-founder Frankie Sullivan chastised Mike Huckabee for an unauthorized use of the band’s “Eye of the Tiger” at a campaign rally, R.E.M. issued a public rebuke against politicians who use their music without permission. “Go fuck yourselves, the lot of you — you sad, attention-grabbing, power-hungry little men,” R.E.M. frontman Michael… Source: RollingStone Link: R.E.M. […]