Bob Dylan delivered a memorable, riveting 30-minute acceptance speech at last week’s all-star MusiCares Person of the Year ceremony, thanking his early supporters and the artists who covered his work and denouncing “detractors” like Merle Haggard and songwriting duo Leiber & Stoller. As a postscript to his epic, career-spanning monologue, Dylan chatted with author Bill… Source: RollingStone Link: Bob Dylan […]

Last night, Kanye West delivered a brief, high-octane performance for the first annual Roc City Classic — a show delivered to an estimated 10,000 people in New York’s Flatiron district and broadcast around the globe. If you caught the performance, you’d know that West came loaded with special guests, including Pusha T,… Source: RollingStone Link: Kanye West's […]

Matt Bonner likes to party – for charity. When the San Antonio Spurs’ sniper isn’t winning rings (or earning nicknames like “The Red Mamba”), he’s working his side hustle as an occasional concert booker, a gig that led to his second NBA Alt-Star Party this Friday at New York’s Bowery… Source: RollingStone Link: The NBA's […]

As the sand in the hourglass of David Letterman’s tenure as Late Show host trickles to its last grains, new artists are lucky if they even get one chance to grace the famed stage of the Ed Sullivan Theater. Sturgill Simpson, who made his debut on the program in July with… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Sturgill […]

Nearly a year after the death of “the Godfather of House Music” Frankie Knuckles, a trio of electronic music artists the late DJ inspired – Underworld, Heller & Farley and the Misterons – have teamed up to re-record Knuckles’ 1987 classic “Baby Wants to Ride.” Proceeds from the single will benefit… Source: RollingStone Link: Underworld Pay […]

Last October, rapper-activist Talib Kweli helped launch the crowdfunding campaign Ferguson Defense Fund to support activists protesting in Ferguson, Missouri following the deadly shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown and subsequent non-indictment of police officer Darren Wilson. The Action Support Committee raised 2,052 – eclipsing their initial goal of ,000 – and on Friday, the committee… Source: RollingStone Link: Talib Kweli […]

Four years after teaming up for the Grammy-nominated “You and Tequila,” Kenny Chesney and Grace Potter are trading harmonies once again, this time on The Big Revival’s newest single, “Wild Child.” A tribute to a modern-day hippie who attends Bonnaroo, “goes where the wind suggests” and generally marches to the beat… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

On January 5th, just after his band Phish ended a four-night run of shows in Miami, singer-guitarist Trey Anastasio received an e-mail from Phil Lesh, the former bassist of the Grateful Dead. Lesh asked Anastasio to join him and the other surviving members of his band — guitarist Bob Weir and… Source: RollingStone Link: Inside the […]

Even though Taylor Swift’s 1989 tracks “Blank Space” and “Shake It Off” continue to hang out out on the Billboard Hot 100, the singer has shared the new music video for “Style,” the third single off her record-breaking fourth LP. While the first two 1989 videos were more lighthearted affairs more attuned to Swift’s… Source: RollingStone Link: Taylor Swift […]

Jeff Beck is writing an autobiography and preparing a separate “signed, limited-edition” book as part of a new publishing deal struck with London-based Genesis Publishing group. According to a press release, the legendary guitarist is also at work on a new documentary, the first officially sanctioned film about his storied career. While it’s unclear… Source: RollingStone Link: Jeff […]