Joe B. Mauldin, whose bass playing for the Crickets helped set the pulse of rock & roll, died Saturday, February 7th. He was 74 years old. Raised in West Texas, Joseph Benson Mauldin, Jr. was barely 17 years old when he began playing with Buddy Holly, a local hotshot whose music… Source: RollingStone Link: Joe […]
Alabama Shakes have no use for violence on “Don’t Wanna Fight,” but the first single off the group’s new album Sound & Color, out April 21st via ATO, is a knockout blow anyway. The chunky, funky soul cut arrives with an animated clip featuring stark, simple line drawings moving and shaking to… Source: RollingStone Link: Alabama […]
The biggest question still lingering from Super Bowl XLIX isn’t “Why didn’t Seattle run it with Marshawn Lynch?” Instead, America continues to wonder “Who was the infamously unrehearsed ‘Left Shark’ that nearly submarined Katy Perry’s halftime performance?” Well, in ESPN’s newest “This Is SportsCenter” spot, we finally discover the true identity of… Source: RollingStone Link: ESPN […]
Lightning Bolt, highly-influential Crayola-punk noise duo, are returning with their first new recordings in nearly six years. Their seventh album, Fantasy Empire, represents a new chapter for a band that’s been together more than 20 years: it’s their first album for the esteemed Thrill Jockey and their first recorded in… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Lightning […]
Garbage singer Shirley Manson has some harsh words for Kanye West, following the rapper’s claim that Beck should “respect artistry” and give his Album of the Year Grammy to Beyoncé. “It is you who is so busy disrespecting artistry,” she wrote on Facebook in a post that began with “Dear… Source: RollingStone Link: Shirley Manson […]
Florence Welch partners with herself for an intimate dance in the new clip for “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful,” the first taste of Florence and the Machine’s as-yet-untitled new album. The short video, directed by Tabitha Denholm and Vincent Haycock, finds the singer and her doppelgänger clutching each other and moving gracefully on the stone… Source: RollingStone Link: Florence […]
Fresh off picking up two Grammys for the standalone single “I” and appearing in the Straight Outta Compton red-band trailer, Kendrick Lamar resurfaces with a powerful new track titled “The Blacker the Berry.” Lamar had been hinting at a shift in his lyricism from the coming-of-age Compton tales on good kid, m.A.A.d. city to a… Source: RollingStone Link: Kendrick […]
Although Haim lost out to Sam Smith for the Best New Artist Grammy, the three sisters can now brag that they’ve accomplished something that Smith hasn’t: Performing alongside Morris Day and the Time. Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s Mash Up Mondays, where the late night host combines two acts to form one unlikely collaboration, continued… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Mark Ronson is, at his core, a DJ and a producer for other artists — he considers his four solo albums side projects. But for his latest, the high-concept Uptown Special, he and Bruno Mars have a Number One hit, “Uptown Funk” — a Morris Day and the Time-like throwback that only hints… Source: RollingStone Link: Mark Ronson […]
Portland, Oregon quartet the von Trapps are, as their name suggests, four descendants of the Trapp Family Singers, the inspiration behind the popular musical and film The Sound of Music. Sofia, Melanie, Amanda and August von Trapp, the grandchildren of Werner von Trapp, have performed together since their youth, working… Source: RollingStone Link: Grandchildren of […]