Keith Urban has released the second single from his upcoming eighth studio album, a grooving, sympathetic ballad called “Break on Me.” The follow-up to Urban’s upbeat, funk-inflected “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16,” “Break on Me” heads off in the opposite direction, offering a safe place to land for a lover… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]
Gwen Stefani digitally dropped the studio version of her new single “Used to Love You” at midnight Tuesday, and the singer has quickly followed that up with her new video for the track. Keeping with the song’s personal lyrics, the video spends its nearly four-minute runtime focused entirely on Stefani’s face, with the… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Gwen […]
Blake Shelton has been the subject of tabloid headlines for years, thanks to a high-profile marriage to — and recent divorce from — fellow chart-topper Miranda Lambert. When In Touch Weekly ran a cover story in late September claiming the newly-single star’s drinking habit was sending him to rehab, however, Shelton… Source: RollingStone Link: Blake Shelton […]
Faith No More prove sex, drugs and rock and roll are for the geriatrics as much as the kids in the hilarious, trippy clip for “Sunny Side Up,” off the metal outfit’s new album, Sol Invictus. Directed by Joe Lynch (Everly, Knights of Badassdom), the clip opens in a retirement home, shrouded in… Source: RollingStone Link: Faith […]
Lindsay Ell visited Rolling Stone Country’s Nashville studio last week in the middle of a doctor-ordered vocal break to talk (softly) about her feel-good new single, “By the Way.” Co-written by Ell, Barry Dean and Luke Laird, the uptempo tune flips the switch on a typical breakup song, putting “Mr. Cowboy… Source: RollingStone Link: Lindsay […]
Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes doesn’t just “reinvent” rock tradition, or “make it her own.” She makes it her bitch. Hence this well-named side band, in which she goes on a garage-rock spree with some buddies from Nashville, bringing out the New York Dolls junk-shop strut that’s always lingered around… Source: RollingStone Link: Thunderbitch
“We mean to stop, in increments, but can’t commit/We post and sit, in impotence/The harder you hit, the deeper the dent,” Joanna Newsom spits on “Leaving The City” — a storm system of consonance and assonance that morphs between harp-led Renaissance courtly dance and social-media-damning, Mellotron-amped rap rock. The California-bred singer-songwriter… Source: RollingStone Link: Divers
Bill Murray plays a has-been rock music manager whose fortune changes while on tour in Afghanistan in "Rock the Kasbah", taking the time-honored route of using comedy to tackle more serious matters. Murray plays Richie Lanz, whose best years are behind him. When he takes his last client to Afghanistan to perform for U.S. soldiers […]
Apple chief executive Tim Cook said Monday the technology giant's new music service has some 6. "It is going really well," Cook during an on-stage chat on the opening evening of a Wall Street Journal technology forum on the Southern California coast. People have begun ending free trials of the music service, which launched at […]
Augustin Hadelich, a violinist known for his mastery of a diverse solo repertoire, on Tuesday won the inaugural Warner Music Prize aimed at promoting young classical musicians. The Warner Music Prize, announced last year with backing of the Warner label, comes with $100,000 for an artist between 18 and 35 recognized as an emerging talent. […]