At least to the modern-day fan, Guy Clark may not have been the most well-known of country songwriters, but his influence and body of work are essential to the genre. A true poet, Clark died at 74 on Tuesday, May 17th, after a lengthy illness, leaving behind songs that are touchstones… Source: RollingStone Link: Guy Clark: […]

“We had chords and a structure, but I didn’t have a song,” Eric Clapton says of the genesis of “Spiral,” an original blues on his new album, I Still Do. One day, his producer Glyn Johns, who “was pushing us to complete it,” told Clapton and his band to just play… Source: RollingStone Link: Eric Clapton […]

When the Monkees stepped into MGM studios in November of 1968 to tape their NBC television special 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee, they were just two years away from their commercial peak: selling records by the millions, a hit TV show and battling with the Beatles for chart supremacy. But their show… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: The […]

From the Nineties rap samples dotting her albums to her spot-on impressions of Britney Spears and Celine Dion on Saturday Night Live, Ariana Grande has shown herself to be a dedicated student of music. Even while she was still acting on Nickelodeon as a teenager, she shared her musical inclinations… Source: RollingStone Link: Ariana Grande: […]

Josh Turner will kick off summer by sticking close to home – on record, anyway. The singer’s “Hometown Girl” will officially be released on May 31st, as the second single from his yet-to-be-released sixth studio album. The gently rocking tune espouses the virtues of a corn-fed natural beauty, who eschews… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Josh […]

James Blake performed several songs from his new record The Colour in Anything, including the title-track, “Radio Silence,” “Modern Soul” and “Timeless,” live for the first time at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles Monday. Blake tapped rising soul-folk singer Moses Sumney and New Zealand psych-pop musician Connan Mockasin to assist on “The… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

On May 16th, 1966, Bob Dylan released Blonde on Blonde, arguably the best album of his career. The next day, he would be in Manchester, England, for a concert at the Free Trade Hall, the 11th date of the European leg of his world tour. Dylan was in his lightning-rod phase, being… Source: RollingStone Link: Remembering […]

Legendary New York City art center ABC No Rio will be shuttering its doors until a new building is erected, The New York Times reports. The space has been in a brick tenement on the Lower East Side since 1980. ABC No Rio was known for its weekly punk/hardcore shows after… Source: RollingStone Link: Iconic […]

The Beatles’ first publicist Tony Barrow, who coined the indelible nickname “the Fab Four” and helped shape the world’s view of the rock group, died Saturday in Morecambe, England, The New York Times reports. He was 80. Barrow’s death was confirmed by Mark Lewisohn, a Beatles historian, who had known Barrow for several… Source: RollingStone Link: Beatles […]

By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) – Grammy Award-winning musician Emilio Navaira, who helped take Tejano music from a Texas-based regional genre to international acclaim, has died at the age of 53, police and his publicist said on Tuesday. Police in New Braunfels, about 40 miles (65 km) northeast of San Antonio, said they were […]