Archive | March, 2016

Watch Eddie Vedder Join Bruce Springsteen on 'Bobby Jean'

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s The River Tour rolled into Seattle’s Key Arena Thursday night, and to mark the occasion, Springsteen brought out a “hometown boy,” Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, during the encore to perform “Bobby Jean.” The two rockers split vocals on their powerful rendition of the Born on… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Eddie […]

Inside Bernie Worrell's All-Star NYC Benefit

When word surfaced earlier this year that keyboard virtuoso Bernie Worrell — of Parliament and Funkadelic, the big-band version of Talking Heads, and numerous other genre-exploding projects — was fighting stage-four lung cancer, a group of colleagues, friends and admirers decided a benefit/tribute was way better than a memorial. “This year… Source: RollingStone Link: Inside Bernie […]

Sammy Hagar Is Ready to Make Peace With Eddie Van Halen

Earlier this month, Sammy Hagar bumped into Metallica frontman James Hetfield. “The first thing he said was, ‘Is it true?” says Hagar. “I said, ‘What?’ He goes, ‘That you guys [in Van Halen] are getting back together.’ I said, ‘News to me. I’m not one that goes around hush hush…. Source: RollingStone Link: Sammy Hagar […]

Can Cuba Become the Next Great Rock Destination?

Diplo was expecting around 40,000 Cubans to show up when he and his dance crew, Major Lazer, played Havana’s José Martí Anti-Imperialist Platform on a recent Sunday afternoon. Instead, they got 10 times that many. Almost half a million fans, most of them teenagers, came out – a sea of… Source: RollingStone Link: Can Cuba […]

Hear Lost Melvins Sub Pop Album With Godheadsilo's Mike Kunka

On April 1, art-rock sludge factory the Melvins and Sub Pop Records are unearthing Three Men and a Baby, the band’s lost album recorded with bassist/vocalist Mike Kunka of North Dakota noise-rockers Godheadsilo. The album was initially recorded in 1999 during a prolific creative period where the Melvins released a trilogy of albums for the… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Lost […]

Mind of Mine

Zayn Malik has had sex. But he doesn’t just want that fact to be implied in his lyrics or ingrained in his music. The 23-year-old ex-One Direction member wears it like a Boy Scout badge, placing himself between sheets and against walls time and time again. His solo re-introduction is a… Source: RollingStone Link: Mind of […]

Midwest Farmer's Daughter

Truth lies in the details – and that goes double for tradition-minded country music, a point Margo Price’s debut makes fiercely. In “About to Find Out,” a Loretta Lynn-styled can of whoopass, it’s the image of a selfie-snapping jackass fast-forwarding the song into the present. In the honky-tonk hangover “Hurtin’ (On The… Source: RollingStone Link: Midwest Farmer's […]