Pop superstar Taylor Swift on Tuesday led nominations for the American Music Awards, with Canadian singer The Weeknd the favorite among newcomers. The winners, to be announced at a gala in Los Angeles on November 22, will be determined through voting by fans, unlike the more prestigious Grammy Awards which are based on polling within […]
“It’s not the same regurgitated bullshit,” John Osborne told Rolling Stone Country earlier this year, talking about the new wave of honest, rule-breaking artists poised to take over the charts from the Queen Bees and King Bros of country music. With a sound that owes as much to rock & roll’s… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Brothers […]
DJ Khaled, the DJ-producer known for his boisterous yells and all-star collaborations, has revealed details of his feature-heavy eighth studio album, I Changed a Lot, set for release on October 23rd. I Changed a Lot boasts a hefty list of big names from across hip-hop and R&B. Future and Chris Brown are featured prominently across the… Source: RollingStone Link: Jay […]
On Sunday night, South Korean boy band Big Bang brought their high-octane, confetti-bursting show for the second of two nights in the New York area. See the spectacle in our gallery. Source: RollingStone Link: Big Bang: See Explosive Photos of the K-Pop Crew Conquering the NY Area
For a nervous moment, actor Paul Dano stood quietly onstage Monday night at a Los Angeles jazz club, gripping a microphone with both hands to sing a 1966 Beach Boys classic, “You Still Believe in Me.” At the keyboard beside him was the man who co-authored it, Brian Wilson. On his… Source: RollingStone Link: Brian Wilson, […]
Indestructible glam metal icons Mötley Crüe are currently on the Final Tour, a series of more than 150 shows capping nearly three and a half decades of decadence, concluding with a New Year’s Eve throwdown at Los Angeles’ Staples Center. If you haven’t caught the tour thus far, let bassist Nikki… Source: RollingStone Link: Inside Motley […]
It’s probably no surprise that Elvis Costello’s memoir, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, out today, is thoroughly engrossing. Costello’s gift for storytelling in song is without question, but like Bob Dylan’s Chronicles, his book is truly remarkable in the way it presents a riveting, honest portrait of the author and the many A-listers he’s… Source: RollingStone Link: 10 Things […]
“We are the ghosts of the midway, the beasts of the alley,” August Burns Red singer Jake Luhrs bellows at the start of “Ghosts,” a standout cut off the band’s latest album, Found in Far Away Places. “We are the living dead, living in your nightmares.” Many metal bands have written songs… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]
Catchy, concise and more committed to getting parties rolling or groping groupies than conquering Valhalla or thinking depressive thoughts, what first passed as metal on Eighties MTV didn’t have much in common with what gets called metal now — or even what had mostly been called metal in the Seventies…. Source: RollingStone Link: 50 Greatest […]
Taylor Swift led the field on Tuesday with six nominations for the 2015 American Music Awards, closely followed by British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran and Canada's The Weeknd. Swift, Sheeran and The Weeknd, who all have dominated the music charts this year, will compete for the biggest prize – artist of the year – in the […]