The recorded music industry has enjoyed its first significant growth since the dawn of the Internet age, as streaming led digital to overtake physical sales, a global trade body said Tuesday. Recorded music revenue expanded by 3.2 percent in 2015 worldwide to $15 billion, fueled by an extraordinary growth in subscriptions to streaming services, according […]
The ongoing copyright dispute over Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” filed by the estate of former Spirit guitarist Randy Wolfe (who performed as Randy California), will head to trial, Reuters reports. The case dates back to 2014 when Michael Skidmore, a trustee for Wolfe’s estate, sued Zeppelin, claiming the band stole the intro to… Source: RollingStone Link: Led […]
Lil Kim’s debut, Hard Core, still sounds bracing, ribald and funky nearly 20 years after it came out. But the MC has not released an official full-length since 2005. The only way to hear from her now is through the occasional mixtape, and one of these arrived last month. Lil… Source: RollingStone Link: Lil' Kim […]
Jon Pardi leads a honky-tonk house band in the new music video for “Head Over Boots,” a retro clip that finds the singer dishing up the soundtrack to a fast-moving romance between one of his bandmates and a girl in the audience. The video opens up with an elderly man feeding… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]
LONDON (AP) — Adele had the world's best-selling album last year, a global smash that helped music revenues record their first significant growth since the dawn of the digital age two decades ago. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Adele has best-selling album as global music revenue rises
Miranda Lambert, who first came to the attention of country music fans as a contestant (and third-place finisher) on Nashville Star, showed her reverence for classic country on the USA Network reality singing competition with a feisty performance of Merle Haggard’s “The Fightin’ Side of Me” in April 2003. Her… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: See […]
Officers were called to “reports of an unexplained death of a man in his 60s” at the Four Seasons Hotel in London’s Canary Wharf. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Music Producer David Gest, Ex-Husband of Liza Minnelli, Dies at 62
In a city overflowing with transplants, Gabe Dixon is a rare Nashville native. It seems fitting, then, that the piano-pounding songwriter — now an Americana solo artist, following a decade-plus run as frontman of his own Southern pop/rock trio and sideman for the likes of Paul McCartney and Alison Krauss… Source: RollingStone Link: See Gabe […]
KRS-One has dropped a fitting lyrical tribute to A Tribe Called Quest’s Phife Dawg and will donate the proceeds from the track to the late MC’s family. “The Phife Tribute” is available to purchase on Bandcamp for a minimum $5 donation, though fans can name their own price if they want to… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear KRS-One's […]
Simplicity is at the very heart of Drake White’s current single “Livin’ the Dream” — while it lyrically extolls enjoying being happy in the moment with a loved one, the composition revolves around one single descending chord progression that makes clever use of melody for variety’s sake. “Some of the biggest… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]