Every New Year’s Eve for the past five years, Boston-based country-rockabilly throwbacks Girls Guns and Glory have been honoring their hero Hank Williams with a string of tribute shows around the anniversary of his death. This week, the band releases one of those concerts on the live album Girls Guns and Glory Presents:… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Girls […]
Tonight at 8 o’clock, a new Smithsonian Channel documentary tracks the life and influence of Huddie Ledbetter, the folk and blues singer best known as Lead Belly. Over the course of an hour, Legend of Lead Belly travels from his birth in the late 1880s through his 1949 death, covering… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch the […]
Fashion is Ashley Monroe’s co-star in this exclusive behind-the-scenes look at her new single, “On to Something Good.” (Watch above.) In fact, if you make a drinking game out of her wardrobe changes, you might be seeing double by the end of the clip. The chic country star goes from… Source: RollingStone Link: Go Behind […]
Late last year, Soundgarden released a three-disc rarities collection called Echo of Miles that mixed together unreleased tracks and demos with compilation contributions like the pummeling “Birth Ritual,” which the Seattle band recorded for the grunge-era romantic comedy Singles. Perhaps inspired by that trip down memory lane, Chris Cornell and company… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Soundgarden […]
By the time Led Zeppelin released Physical Graffiti in 1975, they no longer needed to prove anything. “All of us knew that it was a monumental piece of work, just because of the various paths that we’d trodden along to get to this,” says the group’s guitarist and producer Jimmy… Source: RollingStone Link: Jimmy Page […]
Aly Spaltro began playing music in her hometown on the coast of Maine when she was 18 years old, jamming in secret and teaching herself as many instruments as she could get her hands on. When her collection grew too large for her room, she asked her boss at Bart… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Lady […]
The “Amen break” is one of music’s most beloved and essential samples, ranking up there with “Funky Drummer” and “Think (About It)” as the most used breaks in hip-hop, dance and rock. Snatched from the Winstons’ 1969 track “Amen, Brother,” the sample has appeared at various speeds in the music of N.W.A, Nine… Source: RollingStone Link: 'Amen Break' […]
Ellie Goulding topped the British music singles chart for the third week running on Sunday, the Official Charts Company said, with her track "Love Me Like You Do" breaking the all-time audio streaming record. The song, which appears in the "Fifty Shades of Grey" movie, was streamed 2.6 million times over the last seven days, […]
Rush are celebrating their 40th anniversary with a gift to fans dubbed “12 Months of Rush,” with the prog-rock trio offering up a vinyl reissue of an album culled from the band’s Mercury Records catalog in chronological order every month in 2015. Following January’s Fly by Night and February’s Caress of… Source: RollingStone Link: Rush Reveal […]
Trumpeter Clark Terry, a jazz legend who in his seven decades as a musician and bandleader collaborated with artists ranging from Quincy Jones and Duke Ellington to Charles Mingus and Count Basie, passed away Saturday following complications from a long battle with diabetes. He was 94. For his contributions to jazz… Source: RollingStone Link: Jazz Great […]