With their debut single “Smoke” lighting a fire at radio, country-rock outfit A Thousand Horses have released a video for the woozy ballad. And it takes a page right out of Mötley Crüe’s “Girls, Girls, Girls,” with a stripper working it in a way you don’t often see in country…… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch a […]

There’s a lot to be excited about in this winter edition of our quarterly new-artist round-up. A Carrie Underwood-like power vocalist is on the horizon, a dusty southern country-rock band is galloping onto radio and an irreverent acoustic-based duo is infusing country with a much-needed sense of spontaneity. There’s also…… Source: RollingStone Link: 10 New […]

Mom-to-be Carrie Underwood delivers a strong message about parenting in her brand-new video for “Little Toy Guns,” which premiered Friday on her Facebook page. (Watch it below.) “This little girl hears her parents fighting, and it really affects her,” the country superstar shares of the song’s storyline, about a child who wishes…… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

Last year’s 52 percent jump in vinyl sales has been fantastic for record stores — “and growing more important by the day,” Carl Mello, senior buyer for New England music chain Newbury Comics tells Rolling Stone — but the record industry isn’t quite so enthusiastic. The vinyl explosion has been so pronounced that…… Source: RollingStone Link: Music Industry […]

There are a lot of things off-putting about the new footage from Kanye West's "Only One" video. The first and foremost being the fact that the Spike Jonze-directed clip begins with rare footage of the rapper smiling. It's like staring at an eclipse: You know this is something you shouldn't be seeing, … Read More […]

Krill released their last LP, 2013’s breakthrough Lucky Leaves, by unconventional means, hiding music-filled USB sticks in balls of mozzarella cheese and selling them for 100 dollars a piece. None were purchased, but the record’s grungy musings on millennial angst eventually earned the band a dedicated East Coast following. The…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Rising […]

In 2004, when U2’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb leaked online two weeks earlier than planned, the band’s label scrambled to contain the damage by hastily streaming it on MTV’s website. Those weeks are an eternity compared with how Björk and Madonna handled their music’s premature arrivals over the past month:…… Source: RollingStone Link: How the […]

Two days before the Big Game, the NFL has released Carrie Underwood’s “Waiting All Day for a Super Bowl Fight,” Super Bowl XLIX’s official theme song. Stacked high with synthesizers, power chords and banjo, “Waiting All Day for a Super Bowl Fight” is a reworked version of NBC’s Sunday Night Football…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]

Keyboardist David Sancious was the only member of the E Street Band to ever live on E Street (located in Belmar, New Jersey) – but over the past four decades, E Street has proven to be a state of mind more than a neighborhood. Bruce Springsteen looms so large, straddling the Garden State…… Source: RollingStone Link: 12 Best […]

KRS-One gave a lecture at the Tucson high school singled out for violating a state law banning certain approaches to teaching ethnic studies. The rapper, whose “Introduction to Hip-Hop” was targeted as being illegal to include in Cholla Magnet High School’s English From Culturally Relevant African-American Perspective course, came to the school’s Little…… Source: RollingStone Link: KRS-One Speaks […]