That clichéd and mostly erroneous saying on every reality talent show, “Everyone’s a winner,” is actually true for Emily West. After placing second on America’s Got Talent last year, the Iowa native has taken a major career rebound. She inked a deal with Sony Music Masterworks for a new album,… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Emily […]

Nearly 22 years after Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), Ghostface Killah remains as prolific as ever. In 2014, he appeared on a pair of albums – the Wu-Tang Clan reunion LP A Better Tomorrow and his 36 Seasons collaboration with the Revelations – and the Fishscale rapper shows no signs of slowing down… Source: RollingStone Link: Stream Ghostface […]

Hollywood’s elite gather this weekend to celebrate the best in film for 2014, as the 87th Academy Awards take place in Los Angeles on Sunday night. Throughout the long history of the Oscars, country music has made its presence known relatively few times. The 1980s was one of the more fertile… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: […]

Fans of the Cadillac Three will have to wait a few more months for the long-awaited follow-up to 2013’s Tennessee Mojo, but that hasn’t stopped Jaren Johnston and company from trotting out some new songs in concert.  During a live taping of CMT’s Listen Up series on January 20th, the trio bounced… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

At its early-Nineties peak, shoegaze foursome Ride hit listeners with a potent blend of noise and melody. Last night at London’s 100 Club, the band’s first gig in 20 years emphasized the latter, with singer-guitarists Mark Gardener and Andy Bell giving the acoustic treatment to anthems such as “Like a Daydream”… Source: RollingStone Link: Shoegaze Legends […]

Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Will Butler will release his first solo album Policy on March 10th, and to prep for the event, the brother of Win will sit down with The Guardian each morning starting February 23rd to create a week’s worth of songs pulled from the newspaper’s headlines, which The Guardian will then… Source: RollingStone Link: Arcade Fire's […]

Scarlett Johansson’s past musical projects have included an album of Tom Waits covers, a Serge Gainsbourg-inspired collaboration with Pete Yorn and a role in Bob Dylan’s vintage “When the Deal Goes Down” music video. Now, she’s not just going pop, she’s going – as she puts it – “super-pop,” fronting a band… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear a […]

Kanye West debuted his Adidas Originals collection last week in Manhattan, and the reviews have been decidedly mixed. But the rapper-designer’s harshest critic could be New York Fashion Week creator Fern Mallis. “I’m kind of over Kanye,” she recently told Page Six. “I mean, I’m not a fan of his music, and the… Source: RollingStone Link: Kanye West […]

“It’s a survival experience. I find it thrilling,” says California native Chris Thile of the two-degree weather in his temporary home of Oberlin, Ohio. He and his band, the Punch Brothers are doing both an entertainment and educational residency there, performing concerts, giving lectures and conducting student workshops at Oberlin… Source: RollingStone Link: Punch Brothers' […]

Never ones to shy away from camp and comedy in their visuals, Fall Out Boy’s video for new single “Irresistible” is the latest to show off the band’s silly side. In the clip, the band shows up to a public basketball court in their brightest short-shorts to challenge the much taller and… Source: RollingStone Link: Fall […]