Archive | July, 2016

Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Aerosmith Deep Cuts

While nothing is definite at the moment, it seems quite likely that Aerosmith will be launching a farewell tour next year. They’re one of the few bands from their generation still touring with the complete classic lineup, and they want to end it all while everyone is still standing. Joe Perry’s health… Source: RollingStone Link: Readers' Poll: […]

See Charles Kelley's Smoldering 'Lonely Girl' Video

Charles Kelley’s song “Lonely Girl” deals with the relationship between heartbreak and listening to music, promising himself as a healing balm for someone in the middle of it. Appropriately, the first scene of the “Lonely Girl” is a hand dropping the needle on a spinning turntable with his record. Directed by… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]

See Gucci Mane, Young Thug Throw Pool Party to Celebrate 'Guwop Home'

Following a two-year prison stint, Gucci Mane returns July 22nd with his post-incarceration LP Everybody Looking, his first non-mixtape in five years. Featured on the “homecoming” album is “Guwop Home,” Gucci’s collaboration with Young Thug, the most high profile rapper to emerge out of Atlanta while Gucci was behind bars. The two… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]

AlunaGeorge Do Not Mince Words on 'Mean What I Mean'

British dance-pop duo AlunaGeorge debuted their latest sultry summer single, “Mean What I Mean,” on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show Tuesday. The track finds the pair partnering with budding MCs Dreezy and Leikeli47, both of whom deliver quick, vicious verses over George Reid’s rapturous pop house production. Singer Aluna Francis, meanwhile, offers another engrossing… Source: RollingStone Link: AlunaGeorge […]

Nick Cave, Warren Ellis Score Upcoming Jeff Bridges Western

Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds and Grinderman bandmate, Warren Ellis, have scored the upcoming contemporary western, Hell or High Water, starring Jeff Bridges and Chris Pine. Directed by David Mackenzie, Hell or High Water tells the story of Toby (Pine), a divorced father who plots a series of bank heists with his… Source: RollingStone Link: Nick […]

'American Idol' Winner Trent Harmon Defends Country Cred

Trent Harmon rewrites the ending to a real-life heartbreak story with his first country single, “There’s a Girl.” The American Idol winner once did just what the song says, going to great lengths – including driving hundreds of miles – to impress a woman, only to be rejected. But when… Source: RollingStone Link: 'American Idol' […]

10 Great Music Movies That Rock

When The Blackboard Jungle hit movie theaters in 1955, teenagers reportedly showed up in droves just to dance in the aisles to the opening credits, which were set to Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock.” Some cinemas cut out the song, terrified that these hordes of gyrating adolescents were going… Source: RollingStone Link: 10 Great […]

See Scotty McCreery Cover Haggard, Cash and Alabama in Surprise Medley

During Scotty McCreery’s career-breaking run on American Idol, the country singer kept things contemporary, singing songs by 21st century artists like Josh Turner, Thompson Square and John Michael Montgomery. He’s been turning back the clock this summer, though, crooning a medley of country classics during a string of headlining shows. Above,… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]

Berlin's Classic Open Air music festival celebrates 25th anniversary

The historic Gendarmenmarkt square in Berlin is preparing to celebrate the 25th edition of the annual Classic Open Air music festival with a variety of genres performed by world-famous artists July 21-25, 2016. Surrounded by the classical architecture of the Konzerthaus (Concert hall), the Französischer Dom (French Cathedral) and the Deutscher Dom (German Cathedral), the annual […]