Archive | March, 2016

Massive Attack, Kate Moss Team for Illuminating 'Ritual Spirit' Video

Kate Moss dances in the dark in the stark, but striking, new video for Massive Attack’s “Ritual Spirit,” a cut featuring vocals from British singer-songwriter Azekel off the trip-hop pioneers’ new EP of the same name. Directed by Medium and Massive Attack’s Robert “3D” Del Naja, the video finds Moss moving gracefully… Source: RollingStone Link: Massive […]

See George Strait's Unexpected SXSW Performance

This year’s SXSW festival hit an early peak on Tuesday night, when Texas Titan George Strait made a surprise appearance at a birthday party celebrating Asleep at the Wheel’s 65 year-old frontman, Ray Benson. Performing in a tent behind the office of Austin’s GSD&M advertising company, the two singers swapped… Source: RollingStone Link: See George […]

Flashback: David Gilmour and David Bowie Sing 'Comfortably Numb'

David Gilmour has performed “Comfortably Numb” at nearly every one of his solo concerts over the past three decades, and without Roger Waters onstage he’s relied on everyone from Bob Geldof to Robert Wyatt to anonymous backup singers to handle the doctor’s vocal parts. (“Just a little pinprick…”) But when his… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: David […]

Billy Corgan on Smashing Pumpkins' New Tour, Quitting Twitter

Billy Corgan doesn’t know exactly where he is right now, but it’s somewhere outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Smashing Pumpkins frontman recently began work on a film project that has him traveling back roads along the old Route 66 and hanging out with the everyday Americans he encounters. “I’m still figuring… Source: RollingStone Link: Billy Corgan […]

20 Great Iggy Pop Collaborations

Iggy Pop’s gift for improvising lyrics as muscular and sinewy as his body has made him a natural collaborator over his nearly 50-year career. Though David Bowie may have been his best-known musical partner, Iggy has sung with a ridiculously diverse crew of musicians: the earliest punks and new-wavers of… Source: RollingStone Link: 20 Great […]

Watch Eric Church's Defiant Kristofferson Tribute 'To Beat the Devil'

Lady Antebellum, Rosanne Cash and Alison Krauss all paid poignant, elegant tribute to Kris Kristofferson last night at a filmed concert in Nashville. But it was the more defiant performances of Kristofferson’s songs that best captured the country renaissance man’s rebellious spirit: Hank Williams Jr.’s outrageous “If You Don’t Like… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Eric […]

Lee Andrews, Doo-Wop Singer and Questlove's Father, Dead at 79

Lee Andrews, lead singer of the Philadelphia doo-wop group Lee Andrews & the Hearts, died Wednesday. He was 79. Andrews’ son, the Roots drummer Ahmed “Questlove” Thompson, confirmed his father’s death with a written tribute where Questlove called Andrews “the Greatest Teacher in my life.” “I love you,” Questlove wrote to his father…. Source: RollingStone Link: Lee […]

6 Great New Wireless Headphones That Deliver Huge Sound

Tired of untangling the mess that your headphone wires inevitably get into every time you pack them away? Tired of losing the Bluetooth signal on your wireless headphones? So are we – which is why we tested out an array of new high-end wireless headphones that use advances in Bluetooth… Source: RollingStone Link: 6 Great […]

See Miranda Lambert and Ashley Monroe Sing 'You've Got a Friend'

Even prior to forming the Pistol Annies with Angaleena Presley, Miranda Lambert and Ashley Monroe had an inspiring, creative friendship that spawned “Heart Like Mine” for Lambert’s third album Revolution. The intervening years have seen Pistol Annies take a break, Monroe get married to baseball player John Danks, and Lambert… Source: RollingStone Link: See Miranda […]