From Playboy cartoonist to children’s book author (A Light in the Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends) to hit songwriter, Shel Silverstein covered a lot of creative ground throughout his life. But he (along with Johnny Cash) reportedly owes one of his biggest successes to the man who created A Christmas… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Johnny […]

Twenty-five years ago, R.E.M. released Out of Time, which eventually sold over four million copies in the United States and transformed longtime college radio darlings into a mainstream concern. It was the album’s first single “Losing My Religion” that definitively turned the group to artistic and commercial leaders of the burgeoning alternative… Source: RollingStone Link: The Making […]

The Who are currently trekking across North America on their “The Who Hits 50!” tour, which Roger Daltrey has described as the beginning of the group’s “long goodbye.” The band has influenced countless musicians who have followed in its footsteps, including Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Joan Jett, who shares… Source: RollingStone Link: Joan Jett […]

Gwen Stefani doesn’t release her new LP This Is What the Truth Feels Like until March 18th, but the No Doubt singer has unveiled the album’s latest single and opening track “Misery.” Despite the dour title, the catchy single is actually an anthem to a new relationship, with the only “misery” being when Stefani’s away from… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Gwen […]

Like T Bone Burnett and Ethan Johns before him, Dave Cobb has become one of the go-to producers in modern-day roots music, his catalog filled with records by country-pop chart-toppers, Americana poster boys, blue-eyed soul singers and folk duos. Southern Family tips its hat to the full range of that resume…. Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]

Swedish indie pop band Miike Snow released their first album in four years, iii, on March 3rd and celebrated their return with an intimate show at New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge. The trio — comprised of singer Andrew Wyatt and production duo Bloodshy & Avant — let Rolling Stone… Source: RollingStone Link: See Miike […]

In the just-released video for her current single “Girl Next Door,” Brandy Clark plays puppet master, bringing the song’s snarky lyrics to life with her performance alongside the clip’s depiction of a Stepford wife escaping domesticity.  “This song is about someone wanting you for one thing, and then wishing you were… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]

Rostam Batmanglij has debuted a poignant new song, “Gravity Don’t Pull Me” – his second solo track following his departure from Vampire Weekend. “The worst way I ever felt was from the same boy that I still miss,” he croons in elongated, silky patterns over electronic swirls. “‘Cause I messed it… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Rostam's […]

As the dance duo the Knocks, James “Mr. JPatt” Patterson and Ben “B-Roc” Ruttner have been bringing their mobile party to sold-out venues around the world. Finally, listeners at home can get in on the action: Their debut full-length, 55, is a multi-headed celebration that gathers singers from all over the… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch the […]

Forty-five years ago, on March 11th, 1971, the Allman Brothers Band took the stage at Bill Graham’s vaunted Fillmore East Theater in New York for the first of a series of shows that are among the most celebrated in rock history. The Allmans weren’t even supposed to be the headliners. The posters Graham… Source: RollingStone Link: Allman Brothers […]