I knew this fucking thing wouldn’t work,” grumbled Nick Cave as he grappled with a headset mic on Wednesday night. “It always works for Madonna!” Malfunctioning microphones (and a pervasive air of mild disorganization) aside, Cave’s appearance at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood thrilled the fans who packed the venue; some… Source: RollingStone Link: Inside […]
On a weekend afternoon in April 2013, Dale Watson found himself spending a rare day at home, listening to old George Jones records. He played everything he owned, then fired up his computer and downloaded some more. The Possum had died earlier that week, and Watson — a Texan who, like… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Dale […]
Less than a week after filmmaker John Singleton said the long-in-the-works Tupac Shakur biopic was “on hold,” the director has severed his ties to the film. He addressed his exit on Instagram, accompanied by a picture of an article claiming that director Carl Franklin (Out of Time, Homeland, House of Cards)… Source: RollingStone Link: John Singleton […]
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Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla — known simply as Selena — will be the latest deceased musician to be resurrected as a hologram. The singer’s family gave confirmation of the expensive tribute to Billboard following an announcement on Selena’s official Facebook page. The hologram will be known as “Selena The One” and is… Source: RollingStone Link: Selena […]
Kendrick Lamar’s two-week reign atop the Billboard 200 came to an end as an album about a television show that’s been off the air for nearly two decades managed to bump To Pimp a Butterfly out of Number One. Wale’s Seinfeld-inspired fourth LP The Album About Nothing – an extension of the… Source: RollingStone Link: On the […]
Florence Welch rises from the wreckage in Florence + the Machine’s new song “Ship to Wreck” off their upcoming album How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. The new single premiered on the BBC Radio program Annie Mac’s Hottest Record. While the song carries an upbeat, bouncy sound and catchy chorus, the lyrics are… Source: RollingStone Link: Florence […]
Even in this day and age of piecemeal digital downloading, Kristian Bush put a lot of effort into the sequencing of his new album, Southern Gravity, out this week. “I’m into the way an album translates in its order and sounds. There’s a whole package involved,” he tells Rolling Stone Country…. Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Villain & Saint is a new, Haight-Ashbury-inspired rock venue for live music in Bethesda. Chef Robert Wiedmaier is letting his hair down with his newest concept for downtown Bethesda, a San Francisco-inspired rock ‘n’ roll music hall called Villain & Saint. It will host nightly gigs at 9 p.m. for bands from the D.C. area […]
Madonna survives a nuclear explosion in the clip for “Ghosttown,” her second single off Rebel Heart. The better part of the video is a mostly harrowing scene for the pop star. She wanders out of her studio apartment into a fire-razed, post-apocalyptic landscape in the clip. The only survivors appear to… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]