The video for U2’s new Songs of Innocence single, “Every Breaking Wave,” dramatizes the wave of violence that swept Northern Ireland in the Eighties. Belfast-born filmmaker Aoife McArdle made the clip using footage from her 13-minute short film, Every Breaking Wave (streaming below), which came out earlier this month and… Source: RollingStone Link: U2 Relive […]
Through a fluke, a joint concert between Kanye West and Rihanna seems to have been confirmed. Live Nation in Finland recently posted a show billed to “Kanye & Rihanna,” set to take place on July 25th in Tallinn, Estonia; the on-sale date was listed as March 5th. A user on the… Source: RollingStone Link: Kanye West, […]
Tyler Farr, whose debut album Redneck Crazy spawned two hits, the Top Five title track and its moody follow-up “Whiskey in My Water,” has set April 28th as the release date for his next album. Produced by Jim Catino and Julian King, who were also at Crazy’s helm, the new… Source: RollingStone Link: Tyler Farr […]
In 1983, music icons like Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and Diana Ross came together for Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, a live NBC special that celebrated the 25th year of that legendary label. Now an updated version of the program will air Saturday, February 28th at 8 p.m. EST… Source: RollingStone Link: 'Motown 25' […]
Every New Year’s Eve for the past five years, Boston-based country-rockabilly throwbacks Girls Guns and Glory have been honoring their hero Hank Williams with a string of tribute shows around the anniversary of his death. This week, the band releases one of those concerts on the live album Girls Guns and Glory Presents:… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Girls […]
Tonight at 8 o’clock, a new Smithsonian Channel documentary tracks the life and influence of Huddie Ledbetter, the folk and blues singer best known as Lead Belly. Over the course of an hour, Legend of Lead Belly travels from his birth in the late 1880s through his 1949 death, covering… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch the […]
Fashion is Ashley Monroe’s co-star in this exclusive behind-the-scenes look at her new single, “On to Something Good.” (Watch above.) In fact, if you make a drinking game out of her wardrobe changes, you might be seeing double by the end of the clip. The chic country star goes from… Source: RollingStone Link: Go Behind […]
Late last year, Soundgarden released a three-disc rarities collection called Echo of Miles that mixed together unreleased tracks and demos with compilation contributions like the pummeling “Birth Ritual,” which the Seattle band recorded for the grunge-era romantic comedy Singles. Perhaps inspired by that trip down memory lane, Chris Cornell and company… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Soundgarden […]
By the time Led Zeppelin released Physical Graffiti in 1975, they no longer needed to prove anything. “All of us knew that it was a monumental piece of work, just because of the various paths that we’d trodden along to get to this,” says the group’s guitarist and producer Jimmy… Source: RollingStone Link: Jimmy Page […]
Aly Spaltro began playing music in her hometown on the coast of Maine when she was 18 years old, jamming in secret and teaching herself as many instruments as she could get her hands on. When her collection grew too large for her room, she asked her boss at Bart… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Lady […]