Lush textures of clickety-clackety keyboards, slide guitar and disco-ish drums open up “One Step at a Time,” a new Electric Light Orchestra single that will appear on the group’s upcoming LP Alone in the Universe. When frontman Jeff Lynne, who recorded nearly every instrument on the record, sings, though, it… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Electric […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — For years, Karrine Steffans was one of the most sought after video vixens in the hip hop industry. In the late '90s and early 2000s she had roles in more than 20 projects by multiplatinum-selling rap artists, appearing alongside the likes of Jay Z, Puff Daddy, Mystikal and R. Kelly. Source: […]

“I feel a change in the weather/I feel a change in me,” Josh Ritter sings during a telling moment on his eighth album. Two years after Beast in its Tracks, his emotionally vulnerable breakup album, the singer-songwriter is back with an entirely new approach. Switching from sparse, folksy acoustic melodies to… Source: RollingStone Link: Sermon on […]

The obvious question trailing Trey Anastasio’s latest: How much did he take home from his summer vacation with the Dead? Answer: About what you’d expect from a player whose music has often been shaped by a certain anxiety of influence regarding that other, older jam band. The upshot is business… Source: RollingStone Link: Paper Wheels

Holiday albums are a longstanding pop tradition, from crooners like Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole taking on “O Holy Night” to more modern reinventions by Willie Nelson, James Brown and Bob Dylan. Now, following up their Grammy-nominated 2014 LP, Give the People What They Want, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings… Source: RollingStone Link: It's A […]

If Vanessa Carlton spent a thousand years at the piano, she probably wouldn’t come up with another “A Thousand Miles.” Her 2002 debut single, which brought a touch of classical to the TRL crowd with its piano and string splendor, is turning out to be one of those once-in-a-career songs. Thirteen years… Source: RollingStone Link: Liberman

“I ain’t no Leonard Cohen,” sings Matt Berninger, the lead singer of the National, towards the end of his latest album. Indeed, Berninger has gone to lengths to position his new musical detour as more playful, less dour, than his work with the National: The Taylor Swift-approved lead single, “Return… Source: RollingStone Link: Return to […]

Perhaps “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Sports Song” should have tipped us off to this, but when it comes to breaking down the banalities of our athletics-obsessed culture, no one does it better. Case in point, his starring role in “Every Postgame Press Conference,” a note-perfect parody posted today on The Kicker, a… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

As Miley Cyrus and the Flaming Lips prepare for the health department nightmare that is the world’s first all-naked concert, here’s 20 times famous performers have gotten outside of their clothes — to make a statement, to increase sales or just because they thought no one was looking.  Source: RollingStone Link: 20 Great Moments in Rock Star Nudity

Singer Joanna “JoJo” Levesque debuted in a big way at the age of 13. In 2004, she had a smash hit with the R&B-tinged pop track “Leave (Get Out).” Eleven years after her debut and following a record-label debacle that left her music stranded, JoJo sat down with Rolling Stone… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch JoJo […]