This past weekend, more than 150,000 fans descended on Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, 25 miles outside of Atlanta, for the latest installment of TomorrowWorld, the U.S. spin-off of famed Belgian EDM fest Tomorrowland. We were there to catch all the action, including star DJs such as David Guetta, Tiësto and Kaskade — Shaq was there… Source: RollingStone Link: TomorrowWorld 2015: […]
With an A-list lineup (arguably the best curated of the year) and all the charm of a county fair, the inaugural Pilgrimage Music Festival, held just south of Nashville in Franklin, Tennessee, established itself as a festival to watch. Held on the sprawling but easily navigable grounds of the Park at… Source: RollingStone Link: 10 […]
Saturday’s Global Citizen Festival, held for more than 60,000 people on a sunny day in Central Park, gathered a mind-boggling roster of musicians, activists, world leaders, actors, CEOs, innovators and celebrity babies (Suri Cruise!) to spread the message “ours is not a generation of bystanders,” as Mark Zuckerberg put it in a video. The… Source: RollingStone Link: Beyoncé, […]
Earlier this month, Gary Clark Jr. released his second major-label studio LP, The Story of Sonny Boy Slim, a collection of tracks that find the versatile guitar virtuoso tackling a variety of genres like blues, acid rock, funk and, in the case of “Church,” gospel and folk. In this exclusive video, Clark… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Gary […]
Rock Band 4 will feature the music of U2, developer Harmonix Music Systems announced today. Two of the band's tracks, "I Will Follow" from the 1980 album Boy and "Cedarwood Road" from 2014's Songs of Innocence — the album infamously given away for free to all iTunes customers — will be playable in the latest Rock Band. […]
Dave Matthews Band recently wrapped up their 24th consecutive U.S. summer tour, but as Matthews told Rolling Stone backstage at Farm Aid 30 earlier this month — before he performed with longtime friend and collaborator, Tim Reynolds — his mind has often been elsewhere. The singer has been following the Presidential race and also… Source: RollingStone Link: Dave Matthews […]
Community has always been important to Don Henley. Whether fighting for the rights of artists and songwriters, launching the Walden Woods Project to protect the land and legacy of Henry David Thoreau or soldiering on with his fractious musical brethren the Eagles, community has long been a cornerstone of his… Source: RollingStone Link: Don Henley […]
Jamie xx celebrates laid-back living in his clip for “I Know There’s Gonna Be (Good Times),” a track from the British producer’s debut LP, In Colour. The video, directed by Rollo Jackson, features segways and floating banners as the producer spins records in dimly lit spaces and guest vocalists Young Thug… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Jamie […]
Mumford & Sons multi-instrumentalist and Communion Records’ Ben Lovett and The Global Poverty Project will collaborate on an album where world-famous musicians record and perform songs inspired from writings submitted from people around the world, turning chosen writings into songs. The album aims to aid efforts to eradicate extreme poverty… Source: RollingStone Link: Mumford & […]
Drake and Future each scooped up their second Number One album of 2015 as the rappers’ surprise joint mixtape What a Time to Be Alive cruised to the top of the Billboard 200 despite heavy competition. What a Time to Be Alive sold 375,000 total copies in its debut iTunes-only week – the third highest-selling debut… Source: RollingStone Link: On the […]