Blake Shelton’s If I’m Honest album is a musical diary of his past year. The bitter (yet comical) “She’s Got a Way With Words” and the remorseful “Bet You Still Think About Me” seemingly touch on some of his darkest days of 2015, as he split from wife of four… Source: RollingStone Link: Blake Shelton […]
David Byrne is one of rock’s most outspoken political commentators. He’s penned lengthy pieces about topics like animal activism, Internet security and shocking presidential rise of Donald Trump on his website. In a new interview for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Byrne addressed the political nature of music. “I don’t know if music… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
After spending much of the Eighties recording for RCA, Kenny Rogers’ last two albums for the label were his first to miss the Top Ten on the country chart since 1977. Although he was still riding high with country singles, including the Grammy-winning Number One, “Make No Mistake, She’s Mine”… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Willie […]
Alicia Keys unveiled the new video for “In Common,” the first single off the singer’s upcoming LP. In the Pierre Debusschere-directed black-and-white video, Keys turns a simple soundstage into a block party as dancers groove to the Latin-infused track on a fire escape, along a police barrier and in the spray of… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Alicia […]
Two French summer music festivals have canceled Eagles of Death Metal’s scheduled sets following controversial statements made by singer Jesse Hughes regarding the November terror attack in Paris and the Bataclan massacre. Although Hughes apologized for the comments he made in a March interview, both Le Cabaret Vert and Rock en Seine… Source: RollingStone Link: French Festivals […]
Ariana Grande is pop’s newest big-voiced diva, but on her third album, Dangerous Woman, one guest vocalist nearly upstages her: Macy Gray. The raspy-throated R&B singer – who broke through in 1999 with her single “I Try” – brings old-school Nina Simone-level grit to throwback ballad “Leave Me Lonely,” one… Source: RollingStone Link: How Macy […]
Maroon 5 is the latest band to cancel its North Carolina concerts in protest of the state’s controversial HB2, also known as the “bathroom bill.” The bill forces transgender individuals to use the bathrooms associated with their gender at birth. “We have announced that we will be canceling our upcoming shows in Charlotte and Raleigh,… Source: RollingStone Link: Maroon […]
Brian Johnson opened up about the hearing loss that forced him off the road with AC/DC this year, and how he talked about it with the long-running group’s Angus Young and Cliff Williams, in a new interview on Sirius XM. “It’s like a young sports player getting an injury,” he told… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]
“We’ve got a lot left in the tank musically speaking,” said guitarist Dean DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots. He spoke with Rolling Stone recently about the future of STP, sharing a couch with his younger brother, bassist Robert DeLeo, in a Los Angeles rehearsal studio. Wearing his usual aviator shades,… Source: RollingStone Link: Stone Temple […]
Justin Timberlake isn’t the only artist tethering a new single to an animated film this summer: Sia has covered the Nat King Cole standard “Unforgettable” for the upcoming Finding Dory, the long-awaited sequel to the Pixar hit Finding Nemo. The “Chandelier” singer debuted her rendition of the classic Friday on Ellen; host Ellen DeGeneres… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]