Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante is venturing into “experimental acid house” with a new self-titled LP under the moniker Trickfinger. The album, a continuation of his recent foray into electronica, will be released April 7th via Acid Test, Resident Advisor reports.  “I started being serious about following my dream…… Source: RollingStone Link: John […]

Run the Jewels get extra animated – literally – in the video for “Lie, Cheat, Steal,” a track off last year’s Run the Jewels 2 album. Throughout the clip, which comes via Noisey and was directed by Ruff Mercy (Young Thug’s “Old English,” Disclosure’s “F for You”), Killer Mike and…… Source: RollingStone Link: Run the […]

After over twenty years in the music business, most artists keep things fresh by reinvention. Think cone bras, jazz records, kitschy super-groups… But Sugarland’s Kristian Bush is going a different route: showing the world, with his debut solo LP, Southern Gravity, out April 7th, who he really was all along. “I…… Source: RollingStone Link: Kristian […]

Rarely has “Your music put me to sleep” been viewed as a compliment, but that’s the goal of actor Jeff Bridges’ latest collection of songs. The actor’s new album Sleeping Tapes makes no qualms that its goal is to lull the listener to bed and features the actor’s spoken word pieces and guided…… Source: RollingStone Link: Jeff Bridges […]

In three months, it will have been 21 years since Kurt Cobain’s death, and you’d have thought there would be nothing left to say about the life and work of the late Nirvana frontman. But once you’ve seen Brett Morgen’s documentary, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, you start to realize that…… Source: RollingStone Link: Sundance 2015: […]

Acclaimed bluegrass group the Lonesome River Band has had more rotating members than broken banjo strings in their 30-plus year career. But a reunion by key players Ronnie Bowman, Don Rigsby and Kenny Smith in 2010 yielded some of the band’s most vibrant music. Now those three musicians are carrying…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Ralph […]

Sam Smith’s smash “Stay With Me” helped him become the breakout male pop star of 2014, and with six Grammy nominations, he’s only gaining steam. Rolling Stone associate editor Patrick Doyle visited Smith in Atlanta and London – where just a couple of years ago the singer was working as a barback…… Source: RollingStone Link: The Liberation […]

Taylor Swift regularly invited a wide range of surprise all-star guests onstage during her Red world tour, including Carly Simon, Jennifer Lopez and Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump. As the tour wound down in London last February, she surprised fans by bringing out a relative unknown: British singer Sam Smith. Swift had…… Source: RollingStone Link: Taylor Swift […]

Sly Stone was awarded million after a Los Angeles Supreme Court jury found that the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was cheated out of over a decade’s worth of royalties by his former manager and an entertainment lawyer. In the breach-of-contract lawsuit, Stone’s lawyers argued that Gerald “Jerry” Goldstein…… Source: RollingStone Link: Sly Stone Awarded […]

From the 1970s disco explosion to today’s EDM free-for-all, featured singers on dance tracks have become an increasingly frequent chart presence, with the guest spot often serving as an audition or promo for the singer’s subsequent solo turn. In honor of our Sam Smith cover story, here are 12 vocalists from dance…… Source: RollingStone Link: Sam Smith […]