One year after the release of her Americana Award-winning double album, Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, Lucinda Williams has put the finishing touches on another record. The Ghosts of Highway 20 is due out February 5th, bringing with it another batch of raw, ragged alt-country songs. This time, Williams… Source: RollingStone Link: Lucinda […]
The Crystal Method have released a statement objecting to the use of their song “High Roller” as the soundtrack to drone footage that Russia’s state broadcaster released. The sleek footage, embedded below via The Telegraph, surfaced online Monday and claimed to depict Syrian forces moving into Jobar, a Damascus suburb controlled… Source: RollingStone Link: Crystal Method […]
Taylor Swift has spent the better part of the past five months bringing her masterful 2014 album, 1989, to the masses. Swift’s gigantic pop production — winding down Saturday in Tampa, Florida — has criss-crossed the United States, as well as parts of Europe, but the star has taken pains to distinguish… Source: RollingStone Link: Taylor Swift's […]
Rod Stewart shook, shimmied and wailed through a performance of his new song “Please” on the The Tonight Show Wednesday, with house band the Roots dutifully serving as his backing band. “Please” appears on Stewart’s new record, Another Country, and is one of several originals the rocker co-wrote with producer Kevin Savigar. It’s a sultry,… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Cam is the kind of girl who’s up for a challenge. In fact, that’s one of the underlying themes of her upcoming debut album, Untamed. So when syndicated radio host Bobby Bones dared her to cover Adele’s big comeback song, “Hello,” she woke up bright and early to sing it on-air —… Source: RollingStone Link: See Cam […]
It’s been three months since an early version of Brett Eldredge’s “Drunk on Your Love” popped up in the wedding video for Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard, serving as the soundtrack to a one-minute clip that included wedding footage and reception shenanigans. Since then, the song has received a serious… Source: RollingStone Link: See Brett […]
On the one hand, it’s impossible to imagine what it would be like to live Babyface’s life. Kenny Edmonds is, after all, the songwriter-producer who defined Nineties R&B; besides scoring his own mega-selling solo albums, Edmonds crafted hits for Boyz II Men, TLC and Bobby Brown that would become ingrained in the… Source: RollingStone Link: From 'Waiting […]
“This is the first time I’ve ever held my actual album,” says Chris Janson, the affable underdog behind 2015’s country song of the summer, “Buy Me a Boat.” “It’s really happening.” Lounging on the leafy patio atop Warner Brothers’ Music Row headquarters, the newly-minted star turns his just-delivered album (also titled… Source: RollingStone Link: Chris […]
Rick Ross wasted no time hopping on one of the year’s biggest tracks, delivering a tasteful and solemn remix of Adele’s long-awaited new song, “Hello.” Ross doesn’t tweak the track much — save for a few distorted glitches and a “Maybach Music” stamp — and simply inserts a quick verse in between the song’s aching… Source: RollingStone Link: Rick […]
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicating an exhibit to crooner Keith Urban that will trace his beginnings as a musician in Australia to his meteoric rise in the country music industry. "Keith Urban So Far," will feature everything from his 1989 Fender Telecaster, handwritten song manuscripts, excerpts from scrapbooks of his […]