In June 1969, two months after Nashville Skyline landed in stores, Bob Dylan told Rolling Stone founder Jann S. Wenner that he’d originally had a different name in mind for his latest album. “The title came up John Wesley Harding, Volume II,” he said. “We were gonna do that.” As usual,… Source: RollingStone Link: How Bob […]

As country music reacted to the loss of the legendary Merle Haggard, who died on his 79th birthday this week, many of the tributes focused on the singer-songwriter’s influence as a “poet of the common man.” While the moniker certainly fits, it’s easy to overlook another of his greatest qualities,… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Merle […]

What’s currently rocking Rolling Stone HQ? Zayn Malik’s laid-back track, Sturgill Simpson’s transformative cover of Nirvana’s “In Bloom” and Tacocat’s “Men Explain Things To Me,” which channels Pacific Northwest punk forbear Kathleen Hanna. Check out these tracks, plus new cuts from Matthew Pritchard, a Grateful Dead cover by the National and others,… Source: RollingStone Link: Our Favorite […]

AMBI Group’s ‘Groove Tails’ centers on a mouse forced to enter the world of competitive street dancing to pay an outstanding cheese debt. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Timbaland Exec Producing Music for Animated Feature Starring Jamie Foxx (Exclusive)

For over a quarter of a century, Chicago has produced 20 Top 10 hits and 15 platinum or multiplatinum albums and sold more than 100 million records and is second only to the Beach Boys in Billboard singles and albums chart success among American bands. The original band membership consisted of… Source: RollingStone Link: 5 Things […]

Carly Rae Jepsen has teamed with photographer Petra Collins for “Boy Problems,” the latest video off the singer’s acclaimed pop LP Emotion. The video vacillates between bubbly and gloomy as Jepsen sings in a dim, rain-beaten room about her titular situation, which is juxtaposed by colorful and glimmering moments of jubilance. In… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

If ever there was a festival tailor-made for Billy Currington, it’s Tortuga Music Festival, which returns for its fourth year on April 15th – 17th. Currington, currently promoting his single “It Don’t Hurt Like It Used To,” previously played the festival in 2014 and it instantly became one of his favorites… Source: RollingStone Link: Billy Currington […]

Melanie Martinez may not have won her season of The Voice, but the 20-year-old electropop singer seems to be doing just fine launching her career outside of the singing competition. Her 2015 debut album, Cry Baby, was filled with dark takes on childhood themes – including songs like “Tag, You’re… Source: RollingStone Link: See Melanie […]

Since opening in 2013, downtown Nashville’s Johnny Cash Museum has earned several prestigious honors, including the GEM rating from AAA. Now, Bill Miller, the founder of the museum dedicated to the Man in Black, has plans to pay tribute to one of country music’s most iconic women, Patsy Cline, with… Source: RollingStone Link: Patsy Cline […]

Zara Larsson’s “Never Forget You” is an EDM-pop crossover monster: Currently at Number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 and garnering a jaw-dropping 93 million YouTube views, she’s the biggest Swedish import since 2014’s Tove Lo explosion. Featuring British singer MNEK, “Never Forget You” has got the wistfulness of the… Source: RollingStone Link: Zara Larsson: […]