Summer is still a couple of months away, but Blake Shelton has already added more than a dozen fall tour dates to his 2016 schedule. The “Came Here to Forget” singer will pull double duty in three of the cities on the just-announced trek, which kicks off with a two-night… Source: RollingStone Link: Blake Shelton […]

Our guide to this week's (and last week's) album releases also features the week's top new music videos from artists like The Flaming Lips, Deftones, and Run the Jewels, plus brand new streaming music from Wire, Rufus Wainwright, James Blake, DJ Shadow, and more. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at Metacritic […]

Joe Perry knows how to maximize his schedule. As he waits to kick off his upcoming tour with the supergroup Hollywood Vampires – which counts Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp among its ranks – the Aerosmith guitarist is hard at work in a California studio cutting songs. At this point… Source: RollingStone Link: Joe Perry […]

This weekend, Coachella returned to Indio and the small Southern California town once again became the center of the music world. Guns N’ Roses turned the desert into the jungle, Calvin Harris found love with Rihanna, Sia had some video help from Kristen Wiig, three-fifths of N.W.A got together and Diplo… Source: RollingStone Link: 30 Best […]

A black-and-white Fender Stratocaster guitar used by Kurt Cobain for the end-of-concert, instrument-destroying jams during Nirvana’s final tour – specifically at the band’s February 16th, 1994 gig in Rennes, France – has hit the auction block. The seller has posted the instrument on auction house Cooper Owen with a minimum required bid… Source: RollingStone Link: Kurt Cobain's […]

Jamey Johnson is one of the fortunate individuals to have counted the late Merle Haggard among his friends, and his honest, sympathetic approach to songs about working-class life makes him one of the country legend’s closest modern analogs. The two performed together on numerous occasions and, in 2012, Haggard joined Johnson… Source: RollingStone Link: Jamey Johnson […]

On a mid-January morning in Springfield, Mo., a tractor-trailer backs up to the National Audio Company’s loading dock and unloads more than 600,000 empty compact cassette shells from factories in China and Saudi Arabia. The shipment is added to a warehouse inventory of another 10 million or so of the… Source: RollingStone Link: Why the […]

After a lengthy battle with authorities, Ricky Walters, better known as the rapper Slick Rick, was awarded American citizenship on Friday. Speaking with Rolling Stone over the weekend, the MC is relieved. “It’s a weight off the shoulders,” he says. “It’s a good feeling: new opportunities, a fresh start.” Though he’s an… Source: RollingStone Link: Slick […]

Dallas Davidson has written or co-written hundreds of songs that have landed on dozens of albums by Nashville’s top artists, from traditionalists like Jamey Johnson to ultra-mainstream best friend Luke Bryan. Close to 50 percent of those cuts have been picked as singles; many, many of those have been hits;… Source: RollingStone Link: Songwriter Spotlight: […]

Gwen Stefani has mapped out a 27-date summer tour in support of her new solo LP This Is What the Truth Feels Like. The trek kicks off July 12th in Mansfield, Massachusetts and wraps August 25th in Vancouver, British Columbia; six weeks later, in October, the No Doubt singer will perform… Source: RollingStone Link: Gwen Stefani […]