Can Justin Bieber throw the horns alongside the metalheads? When the pop star kicked off a lengthy North American tour supporting his Purpose album earlier this month, headbangers began noticing pop fans sporting black T-shirts with the singer’s name written in jagged lettering in the vein of speed-metal bands. The rendering… Source: RollingStone Link: How Justin […]
With his Swindell Vision video series, Cole Swindell gives fans an insider’s peek at the life of a country star on the rise. Earlier episodes have focused on recording sessions, cowboy boot shopping trips and general backstage shenanigans, often punctuated by cameo appearances from the likes of Alan Jackson. In the… Source: RollingStone Link: See Peyton […]
One of the most biting tracks on Brandy Clark’s upcoming album Big Day in a Small Town is the thinking-woman’s revenge song “Daughter.” With clever lyrics about daddy’s little girl growing up to make daddy worry and harmonies by Kacey Musgraves (it’s not a proper duet), the song, written by… Source: RollingStone Link: Brandy Clark […]
Sturgill Simpson makes one small but significant addition to the lyrics in his soulful cover of Nirvana’s “In Bloom” — after each “don’t know what it means,” he chimes in with his own “to love someone.” While that idea may be implied in Kurt Cobain’s original, it’s a distinction made all… Source: RollingStone Link: See Sturgill […]
At the end of last summer, Drake’s “Hotline Bling” was inescapable. One singer after another acknowledged the tune’s dominance with cover versions, but most of the new renditions stuck close to the hurt tone of the original without surpassing it. The most exciting cover came months later, from the R&B… Source: RollingStone Link: Anthony Hamilton […]
H&M has unveiled the official video to accompany the launch of its H&M Loves Coachella collection for young women and men, ahead of its UK launch on March 31. The campaign, which stars Hailey Baldwin, looks to mix a street savvy vibe with a freewheeling playfulness in honor of the popular Coachella Valley Music and […]
LCD Soundsystem will play two shows at New York City’s Webster Hall March 27th and 28th, marking the group’s first live appearances since their monumental Madison Square Garden send-off in 2011. The group fittingly announced the shows with a cheeky flier that read: “LCD Soundsystem will rise from the dead this Easter Sunday.”… Source: RollingStone Link: LCD […]
In February of 2009 Conan O’Brien was plotting the end of his long-running NBC Late Night show as he prepared for his ill-fated stint as the new host of The Tonight Show. He could have booked nearly any musical act in the world to close out the last episode of… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: White […]
When David Lee Roth left Van Halen in 1985 nobody knew if the group would survive. The flamboyant frontman was the face of the band, and when his cartoonish videos for “California Girls” and “Just a Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody” went into heavy rotation on MTV his solo career took off in a… Source: RollingStone Link: Van Halen's […]
Chris Stapleton’s visit to his Kentucky high school today will leave a lasting footprint. As reported last week, the ACM’s New Male Vocalist of the Year winner will play a free concert at Johnson Central High School in Paintsville, Kentucky, where he graduated in 1996. Sponsored by Ram Trucks, today’s… Source: RollingStone Link: Chris […]