Batten down the hatches and break out the red New York Yankees fitted, Limp Bizkit is hitting the high seas next week as headliners of of the ShipRocked cruise and guitarist Wes Borland couldn’t be more morose. As Metal Injection points out, Borland took to Instagram to express his discontent, posting a photo of…… Source: RollingStone Link: Limp […]

Since 1990 (in other words, years before any of this year’s headliners had a hit record), Country Jam USA has been one of the Midwest’s most prestigious country music festivals. This summer’s lineup for the fest, which takes place in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, from July 23rd—25th, includes Eric Church, Blake…… Source: RollingStone Link: Lady Antebellum, […]

Jimmy Kimmel Live will shake up its regularly scheduled musical performances this February with a new series, “Mash Up Mondays,” bringing together two artists for a special one-off gig. “Mash Up Mondays” kicks off February 2nd with Weezer and ZZ Top — or as host Jimmy Kimmel re-dubbed them in a press release,…… Source: RollingStone Link: 'Jimmy […]

There’s somethin’ ’bout a truck… with a Billy goat in the back? So thinks Kip Moore, anyway, who played an epic prank on tourmate Dierks Bentley as retaliation for forcing him, along with fellow opening acts Maddie & Tae and Canaan Smith, to take a chilly polar plunge in Nashville’s…… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Kip […]

In the fall of 2013, Courtney Barnett took the biggest trip of her life. The Australian singer-songwriter had just released a collection of witty, charming garage-pop jams called The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas, and she was headed to New York to play a series of shows at the…… Source: RollingStone Link: How Courtney […]

The Black Keys did not skimp on the heavy when they barreled through Austin City Limits last year for a performance that will air this Saturday on PBS. Case in point: The Akron outfit’s ear-splitting rendition of Turn Blue cut “Weight of Love,” which is available to watch now. Lumbering between psych-tinged melancholia and head-banging extravagance,…… Source: RollingStone Link: Exclusive: […]

When Kurt Cobain first came up with the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” riff, he didn’t think he had anything that special. “It was such a cliched riff,” he said. “It was so close to a Boston riff or ‘Louie Louie.’ When I came up with the guitar part, Krist [Novoselic]…… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Nirvana […]

While Jack White was raging across the street at the Bridgestone Arena and duetting with Loretta Lynn, John Mellencamp performed the second of a two-night stand at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium, and the through-line between the aging — but still cigarette-puffing — heartland artist’s catalog and the country music of today couldn’t have…… Source: RollingStone Link: 8 Most […]

Ringo Starr will not go quietly into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. About a month before his induction, the ex-Beatle will release his 18th solo album, Postcards From Paradise, which will contain 11 original songs. Among them are “Island in the Sun,” the first he has written with his…… Source: RollingStone Link: Ringo […]

“I’m a streamline lover; nobody touch my speed.” That’s a line from “Streamline,” a bluesy track from the most recent album from Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning. Although in the context of the song, it extols the virtues of a “backwoods Romeo,” it also works well to…… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]