LAS VEGAS (AP) — The new Miss Teen USA calls her use of racist language on social media a “careless mistake,” saying she was influenced by friends. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Miss Teen USA says friends, music influenced racist tweets
When Thom Yorke was 16, he sent a demo of one of his earliest recordings into a music magazine. "They said, 'This guy sounds like Neil Young,'" Yorke told the BBC in 2008. "I was like, 'Who is Neil Young?'" He went out to a record store and picked up After The Gold Rush. "I […]
Jeff Beck has earned the right to wax virtuosic on a cushioned stool at jazz fests. Instead, at 72, he's rediscovering his love of Jimi Hendrix with Bones, a young British rock duo whose better moments recall the big-beat noise of Sleigh Bells. See "Pull It," an exercise in off-the-leash, bass-dro…This article originally appeared on […]
Don't expect the wild-and-loose feel of country-styled Aerosmith hits like "What It Takes" or "Crazy" from Steven Tyler's first Nashville album. Recently relocated to Music City, the singer apparently wants to fit in among his new neighbors, squishing his oversize personality into a…This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler Plays It Safe […]
Nick Cave mulls the way humans resist change in the stark black-and-white trailer for his new album with the Bad Seeds, Skeleton Tree, and its accompanying film, One More Tim…This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Nick Cave Contemplate Change in Tormented Album, Film Trailer Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Nick Cave Contemplate Change in Tormented […]
Shooter Jennings and Marilyn Manson's brooding cover of David Bowie's "Cat People" has been given an eerie, sprawling animated video.<wm:embed type="inset" id…This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Marilyn Manson, Shooter Jennings’ Harrowing Bowie Cover Video Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Marilyn Manson, Shooter Jennings' Harrowing Bowie Cover Video
Yasiin Bey released a new track, "HYMN," Monday as a Tidal exclusive. The song comes with a short, poignant caption: "Condolences to the families of the slain. Never stop pursuing freedom."On "HYMN," Bey raps ove…This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Yasiin Bey Preaches Persistence on ‘HYMN:’ ‘Never Stop Pursuing Freedom’ Source: RollingStone Link: Yasiin Bey […]
It's soundcheck time at the Capitol Theatre, just north of New York, and Dweezil Zappa is leading his band through the songs of his father, Frank. Dweezil, 46, has been regularly performing his dad's music for a decade, but his current tour is stranger – and more tense – than any before it. Unplugging his […]
Following his work on albums by Kendrick Lamar and Flying Lotus, Kamasi Washington's lush, high-velocity Seventies-indebted jazz has become somewhat of a sensation. His triple-disc, three-hour 2015 debut, The Epic, has brought him to this year's Coachella and Bonnaroo; and, this sum…This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Kamasi Washington Talks Jazz-Ambassador Status, Life on the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — In another move to break from YouTube, music video brand Vevo has cut a deal to license videos from Warner Music, repairing a rift between major labels that began with the launch of the service seven years ago. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Vevo cuts deal with Warner Music to license videos