Jimmy Page will premiere the complete companion audio to the upcoming deluxe edition of Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti on Yahoo Live this Thursday, in advance of its release date next week. Afterwards, the guitarist and producer will answer questions from a live audience in attendance at London’s Olympic Studios, where… Source: RollingStone Link: Jimmy Page […]

Is it an album? Is it a mixtape? Who cares? The 17 tracks that Drake released at midnight on a recent Thursday hit harder and hold together more cohesively than most big-budget event albums. There’s nothing resembling a radio single on If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, and not many… Source: RollingStone Link: If You're […]

“I grew up hearing songs like ‘Banks of the Ohio’ played at bluegrass festivals, and I never really paid attention to the words that much,” says Sean Watkins, an Americana A-lister who kicked off his career by co-founding Nickel Creek at age 12. “It sounded like a happy song. One day,… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Sean […]

The first album by this very young quartet from Barcelona is what folks used to mean by alternative rock: a genuinely contrary fury of jagged-granite guitars and severe pop discipline. Mourn’s grip and immediacy in “Dark Issues,” “Misery Factory” and “Marshall” (the chorus: “Shut up, Marshall!”) are especially remarkable as… Source: RollingStone Link: Mourn

Unfortunately, the news didn’t come as much of a surprise. On a Sunday evening two years ago today, word started circulating around Nashville and the country music community that Mindy McCready had died. The reports were, in fact, tragically true: the troubled singer was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound… Source: RollingStone Link: Mindy McCready […]

“Weird Al” Yankovic has made a career out of satirizing pop music, but after 32 years and 14 albums, he’s finally ready to pursue his true calling: Authentic American folk music. The (former) king of pop parody stopped by The Late Late Show on Monday, where he chatted with guest host Thomas… Source: RollingStone Link: 'Weird Al' […]

It’s difficult for people who didn’t watch the original airing of David Bowie’s appearance on Top of the Pops in the summer of 1972 to fully understand its significance. The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and the lead single “Starman” had been on shelves for… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: David […]

The five-year wait for a new album from Reba McEntire will be over on April 14th, with the release of Love Somebody, her first for the newly formed Nash Icon Records, a division of the Big Machine Label Group. (See the album’s cover art below.) McEntire shared the news with fans… Source: RollingStone Link: Reba […]

Lou Reed recalled his vision for the Velvet Underground and his derision for that band’s contemporaries in a recently rediscovered interview that PBS has animated as part of its Blank on Blank series. The singer told music executive Joe Smith in 1987 that he felt the purpose of the band was… Source: RollingStone Link: Lost Lou […]

“I learned so much from seeing those guys – about the feel, the vernacular of the songs. But I never really sat and studied what Jerry actually played, until now.” Trey Anastasio, the singer-guitarist of Phish, is on the phone, taking a one-hour break on a recent morning from his current… Source: RollingStone Link: Trey […]