At 66, country music’s cranky uncle has been running a successful cottage industry in right-leaning, media-baiting outlaw posturing for decades. His latest showcases an admirably hot band (as he points out in multiple spoken-word asides), with guests including Eric Church – see the fiddle-spiked, gospel-tinged take on Neil Young’s “Are… Source: RollingStone Link: It's About […]
Music is the top leisure interest for the millennial generation, with the booming festival industry offering vast untapped opportunities for brands, a study said Thursday. Repucom, which researches sports and entertainment markets, found that 86 percent of millennials said they were interested in music. The excitement level was also more intense, with half of music-inclined […]
Like the country music equivalent of New York’s ball drop in Times Square, Nashville has been treated to annual Old Crow Medicine Show gigs nearly every New Year’s Eve since 2009. This year was no exception, with the band playing a two-night stand at the Ryman Auditorium. “I don’t wanna ring in… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]
In July 1972, David Bowie made a legendary appearance on the British music show Top of the Pops, doing a version of “Starman” that took glam rock mainstream and inspired a generation of U.K. teenagers to shoplift gender-bending clothes. Six months later, in January 1973, Bowie returned to Top of the Pops for… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: David […]
Sitting alone at the piano on Wednesday night, Elton John paid tribute to the late David Bowie with an extended instrumental reading of “Space Oddity.” The moment came during a special two-hour concert at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, and John stretched out with both delicate melodies and pounding keys, before… Source: RollingStone Link: Elton John […]
TJ Osborne doesn’t want to think about how well Brothers Osborne’s single “Stay a Little Longer” is performing on the charts. Seated in a vintage high back chair to the left of his brother John in a nondescript East Nashville storefront owned by their manager, the duo’s deep-voiced lead singer… Source: RollingStone Link: Brothers Osborne […]
California rock outfit Avenged Sevenfold have been sued by their label, Warner Bros. Records, after attempting to break their as-yet-unfulfilled contract by citing California’s “seven-year rule,” Billboard reports. Avenged Sevenfold have released four out of the five albums mandated by their deal, which was signed in 2004. Since then, according to a statement… Source: RollingStone Link: Avenged […]
From the long-awaited releases of Kanye West and Drake’s latest, to the long overdue official retail debuts of Young Thug and Kevin Gates, 2016 has the potential to be a huge year for hip-hop. Here’s the albums we’re most looking forward to. Source: RollingStone Link: 20 Most Anticipated Rap Albums of 2016
When Twenty One Pilots frontman Tyler Joseph scrolls through his phone, there are hundreds of names in the contacts he doesn’t quite recognize: kids from the band’s hometown of Columbus, Ohio, who were the earliest fans of his two-man group, from back in the days when Joseph used to drive… Source: RollingStone Link: Twenty One […]
Ten years after getting their start as pointy-haired emo-glam show ponies, Panic! at the Disco are now a vehicle for frontman Brendon Urie, who describes their fifth LP as “a mix between Sinatra and Queen.” That means a little more glitzy polish and loads of gloppy decadence (“I lost a… Source: RollingStone Link: Death of […]