Two days after Scott Weiland, the former singer of Stone Temple Pilots, was found dead in his bunk on a tour bus in Bloomington, Minnesota, the band’s guitarist Dean DeLeo was in his car when the radio started blasting “Creep,” from STP’s 1992 debut album, Core. “It really hit me… Source: RollingStone Link: Scott Weiland: […]
On a chilly evening in early December, the East Nashville skyline was aglow in a bright, periwinkle haze. Not the haze that neighborhood troubadour Todd Snider sang about on one of his many tributes to his side of the Cumberland River, the kind that emanates from a tightly rolled joint smoked next… Source: RollingStone Link: Why East […]
A couple of albums before 2005’s Gimme Fiction – Spoon’s fifth album, and the Austin band’s first to make the Billboard Top 200 – leader Britt Daniel stripped back their sound to staccato guitars, cool piano chords and unconventional percussion patterns. This gambit paid off spectacularly, especially after the uncommonly jaunty “That’s the Way We… Source: RollingStone Link: Gimme Fiction […]
While the music scenes of England, New York City and scattered bohemian enclaves the world over embraced punk’s do-it-yourself radicalization in the late Seventies, nearly every superstar of sunny southern California kept on making smooth and glossy soft rock as if Joey Ramone and Johnny Rotten had never happened. This… Source: RollingStone Link: Tusk (Deluxe […]
1989’s Tender Lover marked the moment when Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds entered the pop mainstream as a solo star after years spent playing with R&B groups and writing songs with L.A. Reid for acts like Bobby Brown. The album fused the energy of new jack swing (“It No Crime”) and the cool of… Source: RollingStone Link: Return of […]
On their fourth album, Kentucky band Cage the Elephant refurbish mid-Sixties retro-rock with a 21st-century studio vividness – creating something akin to watching old footage of Sandy Koufax or Bill Russell in crisp hi-def with modern camera angles. Produced by the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach,Tell Me I’m Pretty evokes the Yardbirds,… Source: RollingStone Link: Tell Me […]
NEW YORK (AP) — In a story Dec. 18 about Aretha Franklin and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun signed her in 1967. Franklin was signed by Ertegun's partner Jerry Wexler in 1966. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Correction: Music-Aretha Franklin story
ABC News’ Sara Haines reports the buzziest stories in “GMA” Pop News. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Adele on Balancing Family Life and Music Career
Taylor Swift will debut her new music video during the New Year???s Eve celebration with Ryan Seacrest on ABC. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Taylor Swift to Debut 'Out of the Woods' Music Video During 'New Year's Rockin' Eve' on ABC
Thailand's junta leader released the lyrics to a new patriotic ballad on Tuesday, the second song he has written since seizing power in 2014. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who as army chief led the May 2014 coup, first wrote the song "Return Happiness to Thailand", which is played constantly on television and radio stations as […]