Many of Beyoncé’s collaborators in Lemonade’s long list of credits aren’t collaborators at all. Her sixth album makes strategic use of samples and interpolations, wedding older references and new, with a purposefulness that transforms the source material into something fresh. Under-sung Southern hip-hop anthems and critically hailed rock stars are… Source: RollingStone Link: Beyonce's 'Lemonade': […]
Prince’s sister, Tyka Nelson, said the late musician had no known will and has filed paperwork requesting a Minneapolis court name her special administrator to oversee his estate, The Associated Press reports. Nelson is Prince’s only surviving full sibling, though he also has three surviving half-siblings; he was not married when he… Source: RollingStone Link: Prince […]
For a decade, Alan Leeds was arguably as close to Prince as any other person: The late artist’s former tour manager, president of Paisley Park Records, friend and confidante was by the musician’s side for nearly every moment of his professional life between 1983 and 1993. Leeds, who worked for James… Source: RollingStone Link: Prince Insider […]
Songwriter Dallas Davidson, though incredibly successful, hasn’t exactly been on the receiving end of much critical praise over the last few years. As the writer behind Luke Bryan’s “That’s My Kind of Night” and “Country Girl (Shake It for Me),” he’s taken more than a few punches for having ushered… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Dallas […]
The Hard Summer music festival has unveiled its 2016 lineup and revealed it will now move from a one-day event to a a two-day camping festival from July 30-31. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Hard Summer music festival moves to two-day schedule and confirms 2016 line-up
Veteran country hitmaker Craig Morgan (“That’s What I Love About Sundays,” “Redneck Yacht Club”) has revealed the details behind his ninth studio album, an introspective project aptly titled A Whole Lot More to Me. Morgan co-wrote nearly half of the album’s 12 tracks and for the first time co-produced the set… Source: RollingStone Link: Craig […]
For 25 years, the Blue Man Group has blurred the thin blue lines between music, theater, performance, visual art and invention. As a percussion-based spectacle, part of their appeal has always been primal banging on knotty tangles of PVC tubes, the furious whipping of airpoles and the thunderous pounds on… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch: Blue […]
Azealia Banks turns New York City into her personal dance floor in the new video for “The Big Big Beat” off her latest mixtape, Slay-Z. Directed by Matt Sukkar, the simple but entertaining clip opens with an extended sequence in which Banks saunters and shakes up and down a dull, narrow beige… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
“The most disrespected person in America is the black woman,” Malcolm X says in a sample used on Beyoncé’s Lemonade. “The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.” He was talking about society in general, but the same is true… Source: RollingStone Link: How Beyonce's […]
Iggy Pop will tell the story of the Stooges in a new book, Total Chaos, set for release via the publishing wing of Jack White’s Third Man Records. The book was written by Jeff Gold and contributor Johan Kugelberg, who spent two days interviewing Pop in his Miami home and parsing through his massive Stooges collection…. Source: RollingStone Link: Iggy […]