Joey Martin Feek, of the award-winning husband-and-wife singing duo Joey + Rory, has died. She was 40 years old. In a blog post on February 29th, Feek’s husband, singer-songwriter Rory Lee Feek, who had been chronicling his wife’s final months in a stark, vulnerable online diary, wrote that she has… Source: RollingStone Link: Joey Feek, […]
In an age where the most acclaimed Southern rap is the emo Codeine mumblecore of Future and Young Thug, an album that combines two of the brashest wiseasses south of the Mason-Dixon is either an unfashionable oddity or fresh breath of salty Borsht Belt air. There’s not a pun too… Source: RollingStone Link: ColleGrove
Talented jazz musician Esperanza Spalding is best known for snatching the Best New Artist Grammy from the clutches of a young Justin Bieber back in 2012. That year’s experiment, Radio Music Society, transmuted the textures of neo-soul through tricky changes and unlikely arrangements – avant-garde, yes, but ultimately as welcoming… Source: RollingStone Link: Emily’s D+Evolution
After spending a decade singing openhearted confessionals as the frontman of New Jersey punks Gaslight Anthem, gravel-voiced Brian Fallon is turning down his amp for a solo debut full of acoustic ballads and midtempo alt-country songs. Fallon references heroes like James Brown and Van Morrison as he transforms rough old… Source: RollingStone Link: Painkillers
Last night around 9 p.m., Kendrick Lamar dropped untitled unmastered. on iTunes as well as streaming services. The eight-track, 35-minute release consists of demo material from recording sessions that led to his 2015 landmark, To Pimp a Butterfly, with songs dated according to when they were recorded. But even as a collection of supplementary… Source: RollingStone Link: Kendrick Lamar […]
Big Freedia has rescheduled a Hattiesburg, Mississippi concert that was initially canceled over twerking concerns. On March 25th, Big Freedia’s Twerkloose invades Hattiesburg’s Dollar Box Showroom, just over a month after the Queen of New Orleans Bounce’s concert was nixed at that same venue after the state’s Alcohol Beverage Control… Source: RollingStone Link: Big Freedia […]
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 the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne, who shares his thoughts on the Who below. I… Source: RollingStone Link: Flaming […]
Giving his bandmates a breather, Zac Brown flies solo with “Grandma’s Garden,” the newest single from producer Dave Cobb’s upcoming concept album, Southern Family. Recorded in Nashville, where Georgia boys Brown and Cobb both operate their own studios, the song pays tribute to the matriarch of Brown’s family. It’s a… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Zac […]
We’re up to our molars in data-seas of dissonance, and most of us are flipping out, at least a bit. Why wouldn’t our best artists mirror that? In the wake of Kanye’s work-in-progress psychodrama comes this left-field Kendrick Lamar surprise drop – a similarly unfinished-feeling, just as all-over-the-place, yet somehow more… Source: RollingStone Link: untitled unmastered.
Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor said last December that Donald Trump running for president was the worst thing he’d seen in pop culture in 2015. Now he tells Rolling Stone he’s seen enough of the GOP candidate riling up “base, ugly bigotry and racism” that he’s reached a breaking point. “The thing… Source: RollingStone Link: Slipknot's […]