Rachel Potter isn’t exactly new to the stage. A musical theater vet, she cut her teeth on Broadway, where she costarred with Ricky Martin in the revival of Evita and played Brook Shields’ death-obsessed daughter in The Addams Family. It was 2012’s Live the Dream — a country EP rooted in the…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]
In late February, Mike and the Mechanics will kick off their first North American tour since 1989. The group has changed a lot since then and only guitarist Mike Rutherford remains. (He’ll be joined by singers Tim Howard and Andrew Roachford, who are replacing Paul Carrack and the late Paul…… Source: RollingStone Link: See Mike […]
If adopted, these proposals will impact record labels, music publishers, producers, royalty collection groups, terrestrial and satellite radio, and music streaming services. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Big Shake-Up to Music Licensing Regime Embraced by U.S. Copyright Office
The five-foot-four Miranda Lambert was walking tall at the 2010 Colorado State Fair — filling the six-foot-six Trace Adkins’ boots for a surprise duet with Blake Shelton on the guys’ raucous “Hillbilly Bone.” (Watch a fan-shot video of the performance above.) The “Kerosene” singer was a bride-to-be of just about three…… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Miranda […]
Taylor Swift made chart history on the Billboard 200 as her 1989 grabbed Number One for a 10th non-consecutive week, putting the “Blank Space” singer in an elite company of artists who have placed multiple albums at Number One for over 10 weeks. Swift previously achieved double-digits at the top spot…… Source: RollingStone Link: On the […]
It’s Signing Day, where the nation’s top football prospects pack their high school’s auditorium to announce where they’ll be playing college ball. After Number-One recruit Byron Cowart (kinda, sorta) picked Auburn, another top name got ready to make his decision: Cordell Broadus, a 6-foot-2 wide receiver out of Las Vegas’…… Source: RollingStone Link: Snoop Dogg's […]
Former R.E.M. bassist Mike Mills sings a humorously intense verse on “Stop the Presses,” a new novelty rap about the death of newspapers. “‘Shut down the papers’ was Hitler’s first dictum,” he sings, with copious Auto-Tune partway into the song. “Now we’ve done it to our own damn system.” He…… Source: RollingStone Link: R.E.M.'s Mike […]
Monday night in Nashville, at the end of a draining performance of “Father’s Day,” a track on his new LP Afraid of Ghosts, Butch Walker winked a teary eye toward his mother, Melissa. The singer was promoting the deeply personal record with a solo performance at Grimey’s New & Preloved Music, and his…… Source: RollingStone Link: Butch Walker […]
On Sunday night, Common and John Legend will take the stage at the 57th annual Grammy Awards to perform “Glory,” the song they wrote and performed for the movie Selma. Before the performance, though, Common revealed that the duo will be introduced by a very special guest. The Chicago rapper confirmed to Rolling…… Source: RollingStone Link: Common […]
Tom Brady has nothing on Ellen DeGeneres. Country superstar (and devoted sports fan) Dierks Bentley gave up his tickets to last weekend’s Super Bowl — in his hometown of Phoenix, Arizona, no less — so that he could perform on the Ellen DeGeneres Show just a couple of days later. “We…… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]