Van Halen stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show to promote their upcoming summer tour. Unlike their recent performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, where David Lee Roth split open his nose while spinning a baton during the first song, they got through “Jump” without shedding any blood. It was their first time playing daytime… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Van […]
Common and John Legend stepped into the arena known as Lip Sync Battle Thursday night, where only one of the artists would walk away with both an Academy Award and the LSB championship belt. Legend and Common found themselves following up Jimmy Fallon and the Rock’s explosive premiere episode. And while the “Glory” duo might not… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
When Steve Earle sat for Rolling Stone Country’s cameras in Nashville, he performed two songs from his new blues album Terraplane: the free-and-easy “Ain’t Nobody’s Daddy Now,” which premiered last week, and the aching “You’re the Best Lover That I Ever Had,” debuting today. For “You’re the Best Lover,” Earle heralds… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
“I haven’t felt like this in a long time,” Brandon Flowers says. It’s a few weeks before the release of the Killers frontman’s second solo album, The Desired Effect (due out May 18th), and he’s all revved up when he calls from his Las Vegas home. “I’m not even going… Source: RollingStone Link: Brandon Flowers […]
It’s 3 p.m. in Los Angeles, which means that Kurt Vile has just finished eating breakfast. When the beloved psych-rocker began working on his new album last year in Philadelphia, he wanted to reconsider the way he makes music and unlearn some of his acquired habits. This, it turned out, was… Source: RollingStone Link: How Kurt […]
Jimmy Fallon’s Lip Sync Battle, a Spike spinoff of The Tonight Show’s wildly popular segment where celebrities mime along to popular hits, premiered Thursday night with an epic showdown between Fallon and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. At stake: The championship LSB belt. The Rock, fresh off his fantastic turn as SNL host, opened… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
In Tom DeLonge’s new video for “New World,” the former Blink-182 member shows just how hard he can rock without the aid of his old band. “New World” is the lead single off To the Stars, DeLonge’s debut solo album replete with new material and old Blink-182 demos. The video shows DeLonge alone… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Tidal’s key assets are the world’s biggest pop stars, including Jay Z, Beyonce, Madonna, Rihanna and Kanye West, and a set of principles that suggest artists should always receive proper compensation. But does the newly relaunched music-streaming service have anything else to compete with Spotify or Apple’s upcoming Beats Music? “If… Source: RollingStone Link: Would […]
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers honors the old guard and the vanguard of pop. Source: Yahoo Music Link: ASCAP Pop Music Awards to Honor KISS, Doobie Brothers, St. Vincent
When Dan Deacon arrived in Baltimore a decade ago, he not only found the musical community he’d been missing in New York, he found his team, too: The hometown, hard-luck Orioles, then in the midst of a 14-year funk. Of course, with the arrival of new manager Buck Showalter during… Source: RollingStone Link: Dan Deacon […]