Viewers were finally able to see what the Weeknd and Lauryn Hill had planned for Grammy night before Hill’s last-minute cancellation as the former Fugees singer made a surprise appearance on Friday’s The Tonight Show to join Abel Tesfaye on his “In the Night.” The pair delivered an intense rendition of the Beauty… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch the […]

Last week was unique – and possibly prescient – for the music industry as Future’s Apple Music exclusive EVOL topped the Billboard 200 at the same time that Kanye West dropped his The Life of Pablo  as a Tidal-only stream. Rihanna’s Anti, also a Tidal exclusive despite its botched delivery, also managed… Source: RollingStone Link: Exclusive Album […]

Only shooting stars break the mo-old Source: Yahoo Music Link: Watch the emotional new trailer for Strafe, featuring the music of Smash Mouth

On February 19th, 2012, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival founder and venture capitalist Warren Hellman’s life and legacy were celebrated at a special event on a pair of stages in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, with musicians paying tribute to the “hillbillionaire” philanthropist who died in late 2011. Performers included Emmylou… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: See […]

News alert: Jeb Bush is country, y’all. As part of his eternal quest to become a person who is actually likeable, Bush claimed last night during Part Two of CNN’s Republican Town Hall to not only like country music, but to listen to “the Florida Georgia Band.” Somehow, the presidential hopeful… Source: RollingStone Link: Jeb Bush […]

Bruce Springsteen has been on the road playing The River for the past month, and the reception to the tour has been so ecstatic that he tacked on a second American leg and he’s taking it to Europe in the summer. The initial plan was to merely play it once or… Source: RollingStone Link: Weekend Rock […]

A New York judge has denied Kesha’s attempt to get an injunction against Dr. Luke Friday in the singer’s ongoing legal battle against the producer. Kesha’s injunction would have allowed her to record new music outside of Luke’s Kemosabe Records, which lies under the Sony Music umbrella. However, New York… Source: RollingStone Link: Kesha Denied […]

Avant-pop institution Animal Collective have specialized in ecstatic noise explorations for more than a decade. But their 10th album skips the signature escape-pod reverb washes, speeding up the tempos and shortening the song lengths to come up with the zippiest music they’ve ever made. Animal Collective’s core trio recorded Painting With… Source: RollingStone Link: Painting With

With the title track to Lake Street Dive’s latest LP – surely the greatest coiffure anthem since Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” – frontwoman Rachael Price coins a fresh double-entendre for a down-low lover, rhyming “You’ve been in my stable” with “I see you whenever I’m able” while boldly venturing, “Who doesn’t… Source: RollingStone Link: Side Pony

Pairing a veteran singer with next-generation material is a crapshoot conceit, and odds drop when the songs are commissioned instead of curated. But after two Jeff Tweedy-produced LPs did for her what Rick Rubin’s benchmark American Recordings did for Johnny Cash, Mavis Staples takes her comeback higher still with this… Source: RollingStone Link: Livin' on […]