“I was asked to write an autobiography when I was 24,” says Elvis Costello, 61, on the day he receives his first hard-bound copy of his revelatory, evocatively crafted, highly entertaining new memoir, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink. “I said, ‘Could I just live some life?’” Back then, Costello (born Declan MacManus),… Source: RollingStone Link: Elvis […]
Charles Kelley is taking his solo show on the road, and he’s revealing his tour plans exclusively on our Ram Report. Related: Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley Talks Solo Venture After announcing last week that he’s doing a solo side project during Lady Antebellum’s fall and winter break, the singer is now filling his… Source: RollingStone Link: […]
Christmas will come early for Queen fans this year as the band releases its legendary 1975 festive London Hammersmith Odeon gig as a live album/DVD. The much-bootlegged concert footage – originally broadcast live to an audience of millions on BBC TV and radio on Christmas Eve night in 1975 – has been… Source: RollingStone Link: Brian […]
Janet Jackson claimed her seventh career Number One album as the singer’s Unbreakable, her first LP in seven years, cruised to the top spot on the Billboard 200. Unbreakable sold 116,000 total copies in its debut week to give Jackson her second consecutive Number One album following 2008’s Discipline. Jackson’s latest… Source: RollingStone Link: On the […]
Donald Trump has already drawn the ire of artists like Neil Young and R.E.M. for using their music at the Republican frontrunner’s campaign stops without permission, and now another rock legend is threatening legal action against the mogul: Aerosmith has filed a cease-and-desist letter to Trump demanding that the candidate stop using “Dream On” at his… Source: RollingStone Link: Aerosmith Warns […]
Steve Mackay, the saxophonist who appeared on the Stooges’ 1970 LP Fun House and a longtime touring member of the group following the Stooges’ reunion in 2003, died recently following a month-long fight with sepsis. Mackay was 66. “Steve was a classic ’60s American guy, full of generosity and love for anyone… Source: RollingStone Link: Steve […]
Hours after Kanye West received some presidential advice from Barack Obama and performed at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in San Francisco, the rapper capped off his Saturday with a surprise audition for American Idol. Tryouts for the singing competition’s upcoming final season rolled into the Bay Area this weekend, and West stunned judges… Source: RollingStone Link: Kanye West […]
The Weeknd served as the musical guest for the Amy Schumer-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live, and the singer had a trio of surprises at the ready for the night of his performance. Before Abel Tesfaye even took the stage, he dropped two remixes for his Beauty Behind the Madness track “The… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch the […]
While Kanye West mulls his own presidential run in 2020, the rapper was on hand to assist in the fundraising efforts of the Democratic National Committee as West joined President Barack Obama at San Francisco’s the Warfield Theatre Saturday morning. The event, which supported the Democratic Hope Fund, promised a musical performance… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Barack […]
Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic appeared on former MTV VJ Kennedy’s Fox Business show this week to talk about grunge, Bernie Sanders, “proportional representation” and Kurt Cobain. Novoselic, long politically active, is a supporter of Citizens United, which paved the way for Super PAC funding for presidential candidates, and in the interview, the bassist criticized… Source: RollingStone Link: Krist Novoselic […]