Jack White has directed a lighthearted commercial for his Third Man Records label that hawks “pocket T’s.” The five-minute clip (via Pitchfork) stars Whirlwind Heat frontman and Third Man artist David James Swanson and centers on Swanson’s lifelong quest to make the perfect T-shirt. His quest runs much to the chagrin of… Source: RollingStone Link: See Jack […]
Bounce queen Big Freedia will kick off her 2015 Bounce Shakedown Tour with a hometown show in New Orleans on October 20th before trekking across the United States through mid-November. The rapper-singer will be joined by her crew of back-up dancers, the Divas, while fellow New Orleans rapper Boyfriend will open;… Source: RollingStone Link: Big […]
Fifty years ago today, a casting call for “4 insane boys, age 17-21” was printed in The Hollywood Reporter’s classified ads. That audition resulted in the hiring of Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork and the formation of the Monkees. The band will celebrate their 50th anniversary in… Source: RollingStone Link: Monkees' Complete […]
With “Sangria” climbing its way to the top of the country charts in mid-July, Blake Shelton now has 20 Number One singles to his name. Fifteen of those are consecutive chart-toppers, a record-setting streak that began in March 2010 with “Hillbilly Bone.” To celebrate, Shelton is rounding up his biggest songs… Source: RollingStone Link: Blake Shelton […]
Drive-By Truckers will release a comprehensive live album this fall, just before celebrating 20 years together as a band. Titled It’s Great to Be Alive, the project will be available in both deluxe and single-record versions, on CD, vinyl and digital. The full deluxe record will feature an expansive, 35 song… Source: RollingStone Link: Drive-By […]
Luke Bryan can’t stop fiddling with his hat. “I just got a haircut and the sumbitch still doesn’t fit,” he says, struggling to get the fresh-out-of-the-box cap, part of his 32 Bridge line for outdoor outfitters Cabela’s, shaped just right. Riding in an SUV in Nashville, Bryan, country’s most popular —… Source: RollingStone Link: Luke Bryan: […]
The night before Led Zeppelin were scheduled to play a brief reunion set at Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary show at Madison Square Garden in 1988, Robert Plant called up Jimmy Page with some news: He wasn’t going to sing “Stairway to Heaven.” “Well, that was awful,” Page said years later. “I said, ‘What… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Robert […]
St. Vincent’s Annie Clark returned to her hometown of Marfa, Texas where she discussed the cocktail of kinetic energy and fear that drove her towards music, as well as the high stakes that keep pushing her as a performer, in a short documentary for Nowness directed by Alan Del Rio Ortiz. Ortiz, who has been… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
“This is 100 percent my fault,” Garth Brooks admits to Billboard of a barricade to his plans for a 25th anniversary reissue of his groundbreaking No Fences album. The project, which was tentatively set for release in November, was to include remixed and remastered versions of all 10 tracks, plus… Source: RollingStone Link: Garth Brooks' […]
British photographer Mick Rock has impeccable instincts, not to mention a perfect sense of timing. In the early Seventies, while working at the offices of Oz magazine in London, Rock came across a promo copy of a record titled Hunky Dory by a still-relative newcomer named David Bowie. That encounter… Source: RollingStone Link: Shooting for […]