Former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore has revealed that he will not be attending this year Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony because the current lineup of the band is unwilling to perform with him. “Ritchie was honored by the offer of induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of… Source: RollingStone Link: Deep […]
Some artists are primarily about the work, others about the ideas. John Cage tilted famously towards latter, ditto his pal and co-conspirator Yoko Ono, whose recent career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art was an impressive reminder. Among those ideas, the 2007 LP Yes I’m a Witch was a… Source: RollingStone Link: Yes, I'm […]
In 2006, when rapper CeeLo Green and producer-musician Danger Mouse joined forces as duo Gnarls Barkley, they were inspired in part by the work of Italian brothers Gian Piero and Gianfranco Reverberi, whose composition “Nel cimitero di Tucson,” became the basis of the worldwide smash hit “Crazy.” Though Danger Mouse was… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Nine months after Vic Mensa and Skrillex teamed for their collaborative track “No Chill,” the duo have reunited for an Apple Music video for the single. As the video’s Japanese narrator prefaces, “This is the underworld of Tokyo. No rules, all about self expression.” The viewer is then taken on a… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
For Dave Cobb’s Southern Family compilation, contributing artists like Anderson East and Jamey Johnson hit the drawing board to craft new songs about the different ways familial roots grow on their side of the Mason-Dixon line. But for Morgane Stapleton and her Grammy-winning husband Chris, they looked instead to tradition,… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Morgane […]
The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas’ noisy, raucous take on the Velvet Underground’s “Run Run Run” is now streaming. The track appears on the soundtrack to the HBO show Vinyl, which is out now. The song in its native form, on the 1967 record The Velvet Underground and Nico, was already loose, raw… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]
Adele isn’t a public-boozing, wheatgrass-chomping, smoothie-confused diva in real life, but she played one during a hilarious prank segment with help from Ellen DeGeneres. The 25 singer appeared in a remote piece during Thursday’s Ellen, confusing Jamba Juice employees with her bizarre antics as DeGeneres fed her material from an earpiece. In the… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Dead & Company brought deep funk and soul to Thursday’s Tonight Show, performing two Grateful Dead classics – “Shakedown Street” and “Brown-Eyed Women” – in their first television spot. The supergroup – which features John Mayer and Dead members Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart – delivered a blistering “Shakedown” on-air, with Weir… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
In the summer of 2014, Alex Ebert felt his band was at a critical crossroads. Where he once viewed Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros as a “social experiment of ramshackleness” — a group of several musicians free to make mistakes while playing with an almost childlike innocence and freedom —… Source: RollingStone Link: Inside Edward […]
Following Taylor Swift’s Album of the Year Grammy acceptance speech where the singer appeared to take aim at Kanye West, the rapper was asked by paparazzi about his feud with the singer. “I want the best for that person, but there’s people going through real issues out here,” West said Wednesday… Source: RollingStone Link: Kanye West: […]