Far removed from the pop-based Music Row machine, a crop of local Nashville artists is keeping the classic country music sound breathing, playing dive bars and honky-tonks around town and recording music that recalls the genre’s more twangy, sequined era. Recently, Rolling Stone Country premiered a live performance by one of…… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Kelsey […]
Don Covay, an R&B singer and songwriter who wrote songs that would be covered by the Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Little Richard and others, has died. His daughter, Ursula, confirmed the singer’s death. He was 76. In the Sixties, Covay’s soulful voice and skill for writing upbeat R&B songs made for a number…… Source: RollingStone Link: Don […]
Dominic “The Jacka” Newton, one of the most popular rappers in the San Francisco Bay Area’s sprawling underground rap scene, was murdered in East Oakland, California on Monday night. He was 37 years old. Emerging in the late 1990s as part of the Mob Figaz collective, the Jacka evolved into a…… Source: RollingStone Link: The […]
Jimmy Page says he’s “warming up on the touchlines” for a live comeback. Speaking at the West London launch of the 40th anniversary deluxe reissue for Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti, the guitarist said he was making steady progress on a return to the stage. With any thoughts of a Zeppelin reunion on…… Source: RollingStone Link: Jimmy […]
The hard-rocking boys of Unlocking the Truth weren’t born when Marilyn Manson scared the pants off of America with “The Beautiful People.” But metal cares not for age discrepancies, as the young Brooklyn trio proved when they joined Manson onstage for a vicious performance of the 1996 cut during a recent show in…… Source: RollingStone Link: Marilyn Manson […]
iTunes’ Official Music Charts for the week ending February 2, 2015: Source: Yahoo Music Link: The top 10 songs and albums on the iTunes Store
Billed Cayamo: A Journey Through Song, the 2015 Cayamo Cruise journeyed through the Caribbean with the perfect soundtrack onboard: Kacey Musgraves, Brandi Carlile, John Prine, Nikki Lane, Lucinda Williams, Holly Williams, Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale were just a few of the big names who played daily shows aboard the Norwegian Pearl…… Source: RollingStone Link: Kacey Musgraves, […]
Morrissey is a tough guy to please. He changes managers and record labels like most people change their socks, cancels an absurd amount of concerts and hates so many things that the shows that do happen sometimes begin with Big Hard Excellent Fish’s 1990 track “The Imperfect List,” which is…… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Morrissey […]
The day the music died. That’s how songwriter Don McLean memorialized February 3rd, 1959, in his 1972 single, “American Pie,” an epic, eight-minute music history lesson that begins with a reference to the plane crash that killed musicians Buddy Holly, J.P. Richardson (a/k/a the Big Bopper) and Ritchie Valens, along…… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Waylon […]
On two different levels, Bob Dylan’s new Shadows in the Night, out this week, got us thinking about Frank Sinatra. First is the obvious reason: Although technically not a Sinatra “tribute,” Dylan’s record features his takes on songs Sinatra covered at various points in his life. Which, in turn, reminded…… Source: RollingStone Link: Sinatra Rocks! […]