Unfortunately, the news didn’t come as much of a surprise. On a Sunday evening two years ago today, word started circulating around Nashville and the country music community that Mindy McCready had died. The reports were, in fact, tragically true: the troubled singer was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound… Source: RollingStone Link: Mindy McCready […]

“Weird Al” Yankovic has made a career out of satirizing pop music, but after 32 years and 14 albums, he’s finally ready to pursue his true calling: Authentic American folk music. The (former) king of pop parody stopped by The Late Late Show on Monday, where he chatted with guest host Thomas… Source: RollingStone Link: 'Weird Al' […]

It’s difficult for people who didn’t watch the original airing of David Bowie’s appearance on Top of the Pops in the summer of 1972 to fully understand its significance. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and the lead single “Starman” had been on shelves for… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: David […]

The five-year wait for a new album from Reba McEntire will be over on April 14th, with the release of Love Somebody, her first for the newly formed Nash Icon Records, a division of the Big Machine Label Group. (See the album’s cover art below.) McEntire shared the news with fans… Source: RollingStone Link: Reba […]

Lou Reed recalled his vision for the Velvet Underground and his derision for that band’s contemporaries in a recently rediscovered interview that PBS has animated as part of its Blank on Blank series. The singer told music executive Joe Smith in 1987 that he felt the purpose of the band was… Source: RollingStone Link: Lost Lou […]

“I learned so much from seeing those guys – about the feel, the vernacular of the songs. But I never really sat and studied what Jerry actually played, until now.” Trey Anastasio, the singer-guitarist of Phish, is on the phone, taking a one-hour break on a recent morning from his current… Source: RollingStone Link: Trey […]

One month before Modest Mouse end their eight-year album hiatus with Strangers to Ourselves, the band has unveiled the album’s longest cut “The Ground Walks, With Time in a Box.” It’s the songs that stretch out past six minutes that typically showcase the band’s musicianship and allow Isaac Brock and company to delve deeper on tracks. The… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]

New York City alt-metallers Helmet were one of the more unlikely success stories in early Nineties music. Led by jazz-educated guitarist Page Hamilton, a preppy-looking, post-30 veteran of the downtown Manhattan avant-garde underground — he had logged time with experimental composer Glenn Branca and the noise outfit Band of Susans… Source: RollingStone Link: Helmet's Page […]

At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, June 18th, 2014, the six members of the Chicago-based band Umphrey’s McGee – singer-guitarist Brendan Bayliss, guitarist Jake Cinninger, bassist Ryan Stasik, keyboard player Joel Cummins, drummer Kris Myers and percussionist Andy Farag – walked into Abbey Road Studios in London and went to Studio… Source: RollingStone Link: Inside Umphrey's […]

Global Citizen, the international anti-poverty organization that has pledged to eradicate extreme global poverty by 2030, announced that Coldplay frontman Chris Martin will produce and curate the annual Global Citizen Festival until 2030. “It really is the pivotal year for the movement,” said Global Citizen co-founder Hugh Evans at a press event… Source: RollingStone Link: Chris […]