Pearl Jam, Stevie Wonder, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Neil Young top a stacked and eclectic lineup for this year’s New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The long-standing festival will take place at the New Orleans Fair Grounds over two weekends, April 22nd through the 24th, and April 28th through May 1st. The lineup… Source: RollingStone Link: Stevie […]

The Eagles’ guitar sound may be best identified with the ferocious “Hotel California” fretwork of Joe Walsh and Don Felder, but Glenn Frey’s playing was also key to the group’s output. Vince Gill, himself an ace guitarist who has turned in solos for artists as varied as Alice Cooper and… Source: RollingStone Link: Vince Gill […]

Montreal art-pop star Claire Boucher, AKA Grimes, released the new video for her punchy single, “Kill V. Maim” off her fourth full-length album, Art Angels. The musician directed the video alongside her brother Mac, who also filmed the decadent clip for “Flesh Without Blood/Life in the Vivid Dream.” Shot in Toronto, the video harks back… Source: RollingStone Link: Grimes […]

In Dierks Bentley’s 2014 Number One hit “Drunk on a Plane,” the song’s central character takes his pre-paid honeymoon vacation alone after his fiancée dumps him and goes wild above the clouds. It was one of the few uptempo, party-friendly spots on the somber Riser album, and even it was haunted by the… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Dierks […]

Peter Hook and the Light will perform both New Order and Joy Division’s famed Substance compilations on a North American tour next fall. The trek will open with a two-night stand at Webster Hall in New York City on September 22nd and 23rd, followed by a September 24th gig at the Wiltern… Source: RollingStone Link: Peter […]

Pearl Jam have confirmed a North American tour running from the spring through the summer. The first leg of the tour kicks off in April in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and includes an appearance at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival that month and two dates at New York City’s… Source: RollingStone Link: Pearl Jam […]

Fort Minor, the hip-hop side project of Linkin Park vocalist Mike Shinoda, reappeared last June after a nine-year hiatus with surprise single “Welcome.” Shinoda’s creative rebirth has yielded a second piece of fruit thanks to this remix of “Get a Dog,” by fractal underground wordsmiths Aesop Rock and Homeboy Sandman. The track… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]

Mic Gillette, first trumpet and founding member of Oakland funk outfit Tower of Power, died over the weekend after suffering a heart attack, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. He was 64. Formed in the late-Sixties as the Haight-Ashbury scene flourished across the San Francisco Bay, Tower of Power cultivated a brass-heavy sound that would make… Source: RollingStone Link: Tower […]

“My name is Bocephus!” barked Hank Williams, Jr., halfway through last night’s performance of “Are You Ready for the Country?” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The song’s next line — “And my name’s Chief,” normally delivered by duet partner Eric Church — was missing, but Williams made up… Source: RollingStone Link: See Hank […]

Glenn Frey’s interviews in the unvarnished 2013 History of the Eagles documentary can best be described as delightfully unrepentant. Over the course of the candid two-part film, currently streaming on Netflix, Frey, who died Monday at 67, pulls no punches when discussing the band’s formation, its lineup changes and especially his fractured… Source: RollingStone Link: 'Eagles' Doc […]