Archive | April, 2016

Brian Eno on Kanye West, David Bowie and His Immersive LP 'The Ship'

Brian Eno’s deep and submersible 19th studio album, The Ship, is the first LP in a 45-year career that combines the art-rock vocals of albums like 1975’s Another Green World with the free-flowing, pulseless drifts of his pioneering ambient work. Mixing song, texture and his recent explorations with immersive installations,… Source: RollingStone Link: Brian Eno […]

Taylor Swift: 'I Have No Idea' What's Next

Taylor Swift said she has no idea what’s next for her now that the whirlwind cycle for her massive, Grammy-winning 2014 album, 1989, is over. “This is the first time in 10 years that I haven’t known,” she said in an interview with Vogue. “I just decided that after the past year, with all of the… Source: RollingStone Link: Taylor […]

See Sam Hunt's Soulful Merle Haggard Tribute

Sam Hunt tends to get a lot of grief from some corners of the country listening audience for his smoothed-out, thoroughly modern approach to making music, but he still has a deep love of the classics. At the All 4 the Hall benefit show on Tuesday, Hunt paid tribute to… Source: RollingStone Link: See Sam […]

How David Bowie, Nile Rodgers Made 'Let's Dance' a Hit

In 1982, David Bowie went on vacation in the South Pacific, a rare respite for the tireless workaholic. “It can get very boring,” he recalled later of taking time off. To cure his boredom, he brought along some of his favorite blues and R&B records from the Fifties and Sixties:… Source: RollingStone Link: How David […]

Santana IV

Santana IV is a canny title for this deja vu. The album reunites most of the Woodstock-’69 Santana – founding guitarist Carlos Santana, drummer Michael Shrieve, singer-organist Gregg Rolie and percussionist Michael Carabello – with guitarist Neal Schon, a teenage prodigy when he joined in time for the third album,… Source: RollingStone Link: Santana IV

A Sailor's Guide to Earth

“I hope you don’t grow up believing that you have to be a puppet to be a man.” That’s Sturgill Simpson, former Navy man, singing to his young son on “Call to Arms,” an indictment of America’s warmongering, media-stupefied culture that ends his spectacular mic drop of a third LP…. Source: RollingStone Link: A Sailor's […]

Bob Dylan-Inspired TV Show Headed to Amazon

The characters and themes that fill Bob Dylan’s songs will be the basis for a new hour-long drama series on Amazon, Variety reports. Lionsgate TV is reportedly closing in on a deal with the website for Time Out of Mind, from Australian writer/director Josh Wakely. While most of Wakely’s credits include short films, he was… Source: RollingStone Link: Bob […]