Luke Bryan will host his fourth consecutive ACM Awards ceremony next April, joined by longtime friend — and first-time TV host — Dierks Bentley. The news arrives shortly after an announcement that Blake Shelton, who began co-hosting the awards show in 2011, will be stepping down from his post. In a… Source: RollingStone Link: Luke […]
Iconic film composer Ennio Morricone has crafted a brooding, brutal opening song for the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, “L’Ultima Diligenza di Red Rock.” The Hateful Eight score marks Morricone’s first for a Western movie in four decades, but “L’Ultima Diligenza” shows he hasn’t lost his knack for blending serpentine strings, blistering… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]
Joni Mitchell’s 1971 LP Blue is universally acknowledged as one of the most acclaimed albums of all time and a landmark for female artists in the Seventies. And although it’s not a Christmas record, the starkly arranged album nevertheless produced the beautiful ballad “River.” One of the greatest (albeit most… Source: RollingStone Link: See Ashley […]
On television, Chris Carmack plays Will Lexington, a country-pop beefcake who doubles as one of Nashville’s more interesting characters. It’s a role he’s played since 2012, and it’s kept him busy. Like the rest of the Nashville cast, Carmack does his own singing, which means he often winds up in… Source: RollingStone Link: Chris Carmack […]
Faith No More cut up clips from the 1955 horror-noir film, Dementia (also known as Daughter of Horror) in the distressing, engrossing new video for “Separation Anxiety.” The Sol Invictus track’s tense, pounding guitars and drums alongside Mike Patton’s hoarse whisper pair well with the eerie footage, in which a woman’s tortured past drives her… Source: RollingStone Link: Faith […]
Since his first Christmas album in 1981, Kenny Rogers has released at least two holiday LPs in each decade, for a total of nine holiday collections. His latest, Once Again It’s Christmas, became the pop-country legend’s highest-charting LP on Billboard’s Holiday chart, landing at Number Three when it was released… Source: RollingStone Link: See Kenny […]
Culture Club, Billy Idol and Rick Springfield are just a few of the Eighties heavyweights announced as part of iHeartMedia’s iHeart80s Party, to take place on February 20th at the Forum in Los Angeles. Missing Persons and Loverboy have also been announced in the initial lineup. “The Eighties brought the United… Source: RollingStone Link: Culture […]
At the start of the poignant video for his new single “You Should Be Here,” there is a real-life clip from 2013 of Cole Swindell telling his dad via cellphone that he had just signed with Warner Music Nashville. His dad, clearly elated, whoops and says, “How about that!” Since that call,… Source: RollingStone Link: Cole […]
Adele’s concert special at Radio City Music Hall, Adele Live in New York is available to watch in its entirety online after airing on NBC Monday night. The hour-long special was recorded on November 17th and opens with an invigorating performance of “Hello,” the first single from her new album, 25. The performance… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Last month, Killer Mike stood behind a podium inside Atlanta’s Fox Theater, in front of a crowd of more than 5,000 people. He smiled and adjusted the microphone, turned and waved to the audience behind him, and then he got serious. “I have said in many a rap, I don’t trust the… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]