Mötley Crüe wrap up their 158-date Final Tour at Los Angeles’ Staples Center on New Year’s Eve, and the disbanding rockers looked back at the epic trek with a behind-the-scenes video that explores the insane lengths the band went to in order to go out on a high note for fans. “The premise was,… Source: RollingStone Link: Go […]
One of the most biting tracks from Kacey Musgraves’ 2015 release Pageant Material found the acerbic singer-songwriter railing against cronyism of the “Good Ol’ Boys Club.” While she likely meant it as commentary on any system that favors nepotism over hard work and talent, Musgraves still chose to fire her arrows… Source: RollingStone Link: How Female […]
Now that the Beatles have announced they’ll activate their famous catalog on every on-demand streaming service, from Spotify to Apple Music, as of midnight on December 24th, the record business has one overwhelming reaction: What took them so long? “It’s surprising they didn’t do it this time last year,” says Terry… Source: RollingStone Link: What Beatles' […]
“Good evening, ladies,” R. Kelly announces at the start of The Buffet. “Shall we start with hors d’oeuvres? I can tell your body’s been lacking the platter of satisfaction your body deserves.” His metaphor of choice on his 13th album might be culinary, but it’s all sex on the menu…. Source: RollingStone Link: The Buffet
Three years ago, with little warning, David Bowie ended a decade-long break from studio releases with The Next Day. The second album he’s released since that unexpected return to the limelight is an even greater surprise: one of the most aggressively experimental records the singer has ever made. Produced with… Source: RollingStone Link: Blackstar
“I’ll make it simple,” the four women of Hinds sing on their debut LP. The music isn’t always so simple as they claim, though: This great garage-rock crew from Madrid folds decades of naïf-rock history into its craftily shambling tunes – from riff-scraping contemporaries like Ty Segall to early-1990s International… Source: RollingStone Link: Leave Me […]
Starting Christmas eve, all of The Beatles' 13 albums, including "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," "Revolver" and "Abbey Road", will finally be available on some of the most popular streaming services. "Happy Crimble, with love from us to you," The Beatles said on its website, referring to a term popularized by John Lennon to […]
When Live Nation, the world’s biggest promoter, and Ticketmaster, the world’s biggest ticketing company, proposed a merger seven years ago, rivals feared the newly formed Live Nation Entertainment would unfairly monopolize the concert business. “If this merger is allowed to proceed, the combined entity will have the ability to suppress or… Source: RollingStone Link: Live Nation […]
If it weren’t for the lyric about dreaming up a world without religion, John Lennon’s “Imagine” could almost be a gospel song, thanks to a simple, hymn-like melody that seems to invite entire congregations to sing along. That’s exactly what happened at this month’s John Lennon 75th Birthday Concert in New York… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]
Accused of exploiting other artists’ songs in the Beatles, John Lennon defended himself by saying, “It wasn’t a rip-off; it was a love-in.” Paul McCartney’s take: “We pinch as much from other people as they pinch from us.” “In the early years, I’d often carry around someone else’s song in my head,”… Source: RollingStone Link: Beatles' […]