The four sons of white South African Sixties rocker John Kongos were born overseas but came of age in Phoenix, and their mix of pan-African instrumental styles with familiar first-pumping rock feels both cosmopolitan and disorienting. Johnny’s accordion wheezes in the tradition of the South African jive that inspired Paul… Source: RollingStone Link: Egomaniac
Kaleo hail from Mosfellsbær, Iceland, but you wouldn’t know it by frontman JJ Julius Son’s fine-tuned biker-soul growl or the overheated garage blues on the band’s major-label debut. “No Good,” which appears on the soundtrack to HBO’s Vinyl, stomps like the Black Keys at their meatiest, and “Broken Bones” is… Source: RollingStone Link: A/B
Apple is famous for arriving late at the party but being its best guest. Portable mp3 players were already a ‘thing' long before the iPod. The market was overflowing with touchscreen phones and PDAs before the first iPhone, and the same is true of streaming. Pandora and Spotify have been around for years. Yet, as […]
The country star’s “Wanna Be That Song,” the first music video to be filmed on the Cubs’ baseball field, is about “all those big moments in life,” including a first kiss, getting married and having children. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Watch Brett Eldredge Share "Big Moments" Behind Music Video Filmed at Wrigley Field (Exclusive)
DreamWorks has released the first trailer for their forthcoming animated movie Trolls. The film features the voices of Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, Gwen Stefani, Jeffrey Tambor, Russell Brand, James Corden, Kunal Nayyar, Ron Funches, Icona Pop, Zooey Deschanel and others. In the film’s first trailer, Branch (voiced by Timberlake) introduces himself…. Source: RollingStone Link: See […]
Rostrum Records, and its founder Benjy Grinberg, have filed a lawsuit against Wiz Khalifa, whose given name is Cameron Jabril Thomaz. Their cross-complaint, which was filed on Wednesday in Los Angeles, is in response to the lawsuit Khalifa filed against them in May. In documents obtained by Rolling Stone, the new… Source: RollingStone Link: Rostrum […]
Rihanna debuted her new official song for Paramount’s upcoming Star Trek film, Star Trek Beyond, on Monday, and today the singer announced that she would be the first musician to have a music video debut in IMAX theaters. The video is also the first to be shot entirely with IMAX cameras, on the same hardware […]
On her Twitter account, Margo Price identifies herself as “songbird, thunderbird, jailbird.” And at least two of those are true: during a dark period in her past, Price did a weekend in jail after getting pulled over following a night of heavy boozing. The Illinois-born singer-songwriter documents the experience in the song… Source: RollingStone Link: See Margo […]
There hasn’t been a new Cure album since 2008’s 4:13 Dream, but that didn’t stop them from launching a huge world tour earlier this year. Every night they play for three hours, mixing in big hits like “Pictures of You” and “Friday I’m in Love” with lesser-known songs like “At… Source: RollingStone Link: Readers' Poll: […]
With a summer’s worth of tour dates ahead of them, the Band Perry are giving fans a sneak peak of their highly anticipated third album, which was largely crafted before the dissolution of their six-year deal with Big Machine Records. The trio parted ways with the Nashville label in May, leaving… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]