George Harrison, the Bee Gees and Buddy Guy are among a number of artists who will be receiving a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award during the festivities surrounding next year’s Grammy Awards. The Recording Academy will also honor country duo the Louvin Brothers, jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter, composer Pierre Boulez and Tejano music accordionist Flaco Jiménez. Along…… Source: RollingStone Link: […]
Exactly 33 years ago today, Buck Owens used his talents to get out of a speeding ticket. The late pioneer of the Bakersfield Sound made a cameo on the wildly popular show, The Dukes of Hazzard, on December 18, 1981, finding himself caught in Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane’s “Celebrity Speed Trap.”…… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: […]
Billy Corgan has been asked to revisit the heyday of Nineties alternative rock a number of times while promoting the Smashing Pumpkins’ most recent record, Monuments to an Elegy, but in a new interview with The Guardian, the rocker seemed to hit a breaking point, saying: “Right now that era is…… Source: RollingStone Link: Billy Corgan: […]
A two-hour Black Keys concert, recorded earlier this year in Houston will air after “The Howard Stern Birthday Bash: Director’s Cut” on SiriusXM Howard 100 or 101 at 11:15 p.m. EST/8:15 p.m. PST on December 19th. The Black Keys are also kicking off a charity raffle, with the winner receiving frontman Dan…… Source: RollingStone Link: Howard […]
The Who have added some soon-to-be Rock and Roll Hall of Fame firepower to join them on the road when the Tommy rockers bring their Who Hits 50! Tour to North America next year: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Rock Hall Class of 2015 inductees, will serve as opening act on both North…… Source: RollingStone Link: The Who […]
Happy birthday to Keith Richards, who was born in a crossfire hurricane on this date back in 1943. In celebration, treat yourself to “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” Number 125 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and even more of a gas, gas, gas in…… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Keith […]
Big Boi sets out on a stampede of salacious rhymes in a new remix of “Animals,” Maroon 5’s latest single off their latest LP, V. The new version, which arrives via Pigeons and Planes, peels back a few layers of the pulsating original, placing a relentless kick drum up front and flipping the driving…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Big […]
Singer-songwriter Mitski Miyawaki’s breakthrough LP bubbles with poignant black humor. “I will retire to the Salton Sea/At the age of 23/For I’m starting to learn I may never be free,” she confesses in “Drunk Walk Home,” before screaming into a void of distorted guitars. A folk record at its core,…… Source: RollingStone Link: Bury Me […]
For all his world-is-a-vampire nihilism of years past, Billy Corgan has been sounding shockingly well-adjusted lately. Still, the Great Pumpkin’s deep dive into synth pop on Monuments to an Elegy – the latest installment in his band’s multi-album cycle Teargarden by Kaleidyscope – is a surprise. Corgan’s characteristically acidic vocals make sure that songs…… Source: RollingStone Link: Monuments to […]
Deerhoof have been making outrageously inventive ADD noise rock since the Nineties – songs that zip between musical styles, melodic ideas and time signatures while Japanese bassist Satomi Matsuzaki sings in a giddy whirl. Naming their 13th album after a Madonna hit single is pretty funny, since radio pop is…… Source: RollingStone Link: La Isla […]