Jake Owen had the perfect plan for beating traffic (and the heat) at CMA Music Fest: arrive by boat. The singer docked his custom-made speedboat just a couple of yards away from the stage at Nashville’s Riverfront Park where he kicked off “country music’s biggest party” with a free show. Clad… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]

Rae Sremmurd’s latest video for “Look Alive” features Khalif “Swae Lee” Brown and Aaquil “Slim Jimmi” Brown throwing down dance moves in the club. Nightlife vibes match the song’s buzz-enhancing instructions: “Kill this cup, not my vibe.” “Look Alive” was produced by Mike WiLL Made-It, the same producer behind Rae Sremmurd’s breakout singles, “No Flex… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

Following the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir drew parallels Sunday between the anti-LGBT rhetoric of radical members of the Republican party and the language of terrorist groups like ISIS. Weir issued his remarks at this weekend’s Bonnaroo Festival, where he accepted the Les Paul Spirit Award for Innovation… Source: RollingStone Link: Bob […]

Nalinee Darmrong was a teenager living in Washington, D.C., in 1984, when a friend gave her a cassette tape containing the music of a then-emerging British band called the Smiths. About a year later, she went to see the Smiths perform in D.C. during the Meat Is Murder tour, and… Source: RollingStone Link: Smiths Photographer […]

Frankie Ballard released his third album El Rio on Friday (June 10th) in the midst of the CMA Music Festival, but while he was enjoying the crowds and hearing what fans think of the new music, he admitted that he had to get out of Nashville in order to make… Source: RollingStone Link: Frankie Ballard […]

A new music rights initiative aims to streamline the way labels and artists get paid when their works are streamed. The Open Music Initiative (OMI), a joint effort by the Berklee College of Music, MIT and others, has managed to attract support from the three major labels, several major streaming… Source: RollingStone Link: Music Royalties […]

That’s a wrap. CMA Music Fest 2016 ended with fireworks — literally and figuratively — as Little Big Town, Thomas Rhett, Brett Eldredge, Keith Urban and Luke Bryan played Sunday night at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium to the departing crowd of country fans from all over the globe. Rolling Stone Country… Source: RollingStone Link: CMA Music […]

Adam Levine has offered to pay for the funeral of Christina Grimmie, his former team member on The Voice Season Six, who was shot and killed last week following a concert in Orlando. Grimmie’s brother Marcus wrote on Facebook early Monday morning that the Maroon 5 singer “personally called my mother and… Source: RollingStone Link: Adam Levine […]

The third album from singer-songwriter Esmé Patterson keeps pulling you in directions you might not expect – musically, emotionally and even physically. Opening track “Feel Right” bops around like a dance-mad Sixties rock & roll ’45, but its bottle-rocket guitar flares, light-speed drive and sprinting bass call to mind “Fa cé-La,”… Source: RollingStone Link: We Were […]

“It’s like country and emo mixing perfectly, and I love it,” Kacey Musgraves announced midway through her set, before calling co-headliner Conor Oberst onstage Saturday night at Brooklyn’s Northside Festival in Williamsburg. Oberst then joined Musgraves for a spontaneous duet on Hank Williams’ “Hey Good Lookin’,” capping off an evening… Source: RollingStone Link: Kacey Musgraves, […]