A great deal of mystery surrounded Guns N’ Roses when they emerged from an eight-year hibernation in January 2001 to play Brazil’s Rock in Rio and a warmup gig at the House of Blues in Las Vegas. Axl Rose had been almost completely off the grid since the end of… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Guns […]
iTunes’ Official Music Charts for the week ending March 23, 2015: Source: Yahoo Music Link: The top 10 songs and albums on the iTunes Store
iTunes Movies U.S. charts for week ending March 23, 2015: Source: Yahoo Music Link: The top 10 movies on the iTunes Store
Last night, an eclectic roster of artists paid tribute to the music of David Byrne and Talking Heads at New York’s esteemed Carnegie Hall, the 11th (and easily most left-field) event raising money for various organizations that promote music education for underprivileged youth. Twenty artists — Top 10 hitmakers and Internet-famous indie… Source: RollingStone Link: Cee Lo, […]
For years, the Milk Carton Kids would go into the recording studio with the same goal in mind: to recreate the feel (and fretwork) of their club shows in a place that looked, sounded and felt nothing like a club. Then, during a cross-country tour last spring, the guys broke their… Source: RollingStone Link: The […]
Songwriter Don Robertson, whose dozens of hits included such country, pop and R&B standards as “I Don’t Hurt Anymore,” “Please Help Me I’m Falling” and “Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger” — and whose tunes have been recorded by everyone from Elvis Presley to Bing Crosby — died in southern… Source: RollingStone Link: Don Robertson, […]
Brian Wilson wants to “follow the sun to the white sand beaches” on his lush new single, “Sail Away.” The track, which finds the singer-songwriter harmonizing with fellow Beach Boys alumni Blondie Chaplin and Al Jardine, premiered Monday at Wall Street Journal. “We [tried] to recapture the feeling of Beach… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Brian […]
“Can you imagine a football team playing two games in a row?” asked Roger Daltrey as the Who began the second of a two-night, 50th anniversary stand at London’s O2 Arena. “That’s what they expect from us! But we deliver…” And deliver they did. Last night’s the Who Hits 50! show was… Source: RollingStone Link: The […]
Spotify has given their own update on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. With the help of Spotify Insights, the streaming service tallied up play counts for every track to see what songs are favored by audiences today, with Beyonce and Jay Z’s “Crazy in Love”… Source: RollingStone Link: Spotify […]
Mickey Guyton’s career strategy was born of humility. After juggling college with two part-time jobs in Los Angeles, she moved to Nashville in 2011 to pursue her country music dreams — just like practically half the city’s transplants. So the fact that she scored a record deal fairly quickly out… Source: RollingStone Link: Mickey Guyton's […]