Vince Gill is embarking on a mini-tour in March that will see the Country Music Hall of Famer sharing the stage with three of his favorite collaborators. The Vince Gill & Friends Tour will feature singer-songwriters Ashley Monroe and Charlie Worsham, along with the singer’s daughter, Jenny Gill, with all four…… Source: RollingStone Link: Vince […]
COULD SHE BE A SINGLES AND ALBUMS ARTIST?: Meghan Trainor’s pathway to Number One — her debut Title moved 238,000 units and displaced Taylor Swift’s long-reigning 1989 this week— has been more Pharrell Williams than, say, Lecrae. Whereas Williams exploded with a super-hot single, then released an album, then hit Number One…… Source: RollingStone Link: On the […]
A$AP Rocky will make his big-screen debut in the upcoming film Dope, a coming-of-age story about a young hip-hop fan growing up in Inglewood, California’s tough The Bottoms neighborhood. Dope is set to premiere this week at the Sundance Film Festival. Entertainment Weekly reports that Rocky was helping his girlfriend Chanel…… Source: RollingStone Link: A$AP […]
Last week in the basement of New York City’s Ace Hotel, Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer interviewed the trio of Sleater-Kinney, a band the comedy duo credits as the reason their show exists in the first place. Following Tuesday’s release of the band’s post-hiatus album No Cities to Love, NPR has…… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Damon Albarn’s career has been admirably diverse – from Britpop (Blur) to electronica (Gorillaz) to opera (Dr. Dee, Monkey: Journey to the West). Now, the musician has added another unique page to his résumé by contributing music to wonder.land, a reinterpretation of Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel Alice in Wonderland. The production – which…… Source: RollingStone Link: Damon Albarn […]
“I’m happy some of the time, and some of the time I’m not,” said Elliott Smith in a 1998 interview with journalist Barney Hoskyns. The audio recording of the pair’s conversation is the latest interview to get the animation treatment for PBS’ Blank on Blank web series. Recorded a few weeks after Smith…… Source: RollingStone Link: Elliott […]
David Byrne has announced a series of concerts where an all-star roster of 10 artists will be accompanied onstage by 10 high school colorguard teams from around the country in an event dubbed Contemporary Color. Tune-Yards, St. Vincent, Kelis, Nelly Furtado and Byrne himself are among the performers who will join…… Source: RollingStone Link: David Byrne […]
Had Elvis Presley lived, he would have turned 80 years old this month. It’s hard to imagine Elvis doing concerts in 2015, but Leonard Cohen is a few months older and manages to do three-and-a-half hours without breaking a sweat. Hell, Chuck Berry is 88 and still at it. If Elvis…… Source: RollingStone Link: Readers' Poll: […]
The star-studded Paul McCartney tribute concert, honoring the former Beatle as the 2012 MusiCares Person of the Year, will soon be available on Blu-ray and DVD. The concert, A MusiCares Tribute to Paul McCartney, included Beatles and solo songs as performed by Neil Young and Crazy Horse (“I Saw Her…… Source: RollingStone Link: Paul McCartney's […]
Last night, while President Obama delivered his sixth State of the Union address on Capitol Hill, a very different kind of political event was raging in downtown Austin, Texas. There, fueled by the flush of victory — not to mention the four tons of beef brisket and 340 gallons of…… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Watch […]