Steely Dan are performing at Coachella this Friday and next, and Donald Fagen has offered to chronicle his experiences in several installations of a tour diary. The following are his words, untouched and unedited: Monday, April 7 When the Coachella festival lineup was announced back in January, the trolls came out to play…. Source: RollingStone Link: […]
Noah “Panda Bear” Lennox has shared the new music video for his Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper centerpiece “Tropic of Cancer,” and the clip boasts a familiar name as director: Lennox’s Animal Collective band mate Dave “Avey Tare” Portner. In the dreamy, super-slow motion video, a family dressed in ostentatious,… Source: RollingStone Link: Panda Bear […]
Nearly 60 years after its first public reading in October 1955, a concert was held in downtown Los Angeles to honor “Howl,” Allen Ginsberg’s epic, zeitgeist-channeling poem that wrestled with sexuality, creativity, drugs, capitalism and the contradictory forces that were shaping midcentury America. Although not as consistently revelatory as the poem… Source: RollingStone Link: Courtney Love, […]
“You keep telling yourself, ‘Everything’s gonna be OK,’” TV on the Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe belts on the anthemic Seeds track “Trouble.” The band drives home that encouraging message with the song’s new video, which finds the singer encouraging and consoling strangers he meets on the street. “I just happen to like looking at people and… Source: RollingStone Link: TV […]
Anyone who may have misinterpreted the lyrics of Little Big Town’s sultry new single, “Girl Crush,” should get some clarification in the group’s new video for the song. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, the clip features the foursome, backed by a drummer, standing on a bare set under a glittering mirror ball…. Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
“Kris Kristofferson is the greatest songwriter alive today,” declared Willie Nelson in a pre-taped introduction to Tuesday night’s Skyville Live web concert. And for the next hour and a half, his friend’s unparalleled talents were celebrated and complemented by fellow musicians whose own careers Kristofferson has incredibly influenced. Lady Antebellum, Jason Isbell,… Source: RollingStone Link: Lady […]
Twisted Sister have announced a pair of concerts to pay tribute to their late drummer A.J. Pero, who passed away March 20th. Dee Snider and company also revealed that longtime Dream Theatre drummer Mike Portnoy will join Twisted Sister for all of the band’s upcoming 2015 concerts, including the tribute shows…. Source: RollingStone Link: Twisted Sister […]
Kurt Cobain has been studied and dissected obsessively in the years since his death in April 1994. Could there be anything left to learn about one of the greatest musicians of our time? The answer is yes, and it’s in the new issue of Rolling Stone (on sale Friday), where Frances… Source: RollingStone Link: Listen to […]
Jack White, T Bone Burnett and Robert Redford have teamed up to executive produce American Epic, a historical music project encompassing a three-part documentary series, a feature-length film and companion album releases. The documentary and film will explore the pivotal early use of a primitive recording machine used by record… Source: RollingStone Link: Jack White, […]
One summer a few years ago, Frances Bean Cobain worked as an intern in the New York offices of Rolling Stone. Frances – the daughter of Nirvana singer-guitarist Kurt Cobain and an executive producer of the new HBO documentary on his life, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck – was “a 15-year-old… Source: RollingStone Link: Frances Bean […]