The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is routinely one of the most diverse annual music fests, and the 2015 incarnation boasts one of its strongest lineups yet as the Who, Elton John, No Doubt, Widespread Panic, Keith Urban and Jimmy Buffett have all been enlisted as headliners across the fest’s seven days……. Source: RollingStone Link: The Who, […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Fresh off their successful effort to prevent the demolition of a Nashville studio that once recorded the likes of Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, advocates want to include all of the city's Music Row area in their preservation efforts. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Coalition announces effort to preserve Nashville's […]
Last month, Brill Building songwriter Andy Kim — the man behind the Archies’ classic “Sugar, Sugar” and his own chart-topper “Rock Me Gently” — revealed that he had joined forces with Broken Social Scene founding member Kevin Drew for a collaborative LP called It’s Decided. The album’s first single has arrived, and it’s actually a…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Andy […]
The George Jones Museum is inching closer to reality. This morning at a press conference in Nashville, Jones’ widow Nancy Jones revealed the floor plans for the facility, which is set to open April 24th, around the two-year anniversary of his death on April 26th, 2013. The requisite gift shop…… Source: RollingStone Link: George Jones […]
Country superstar Dierks Bentley takes a swipe at the winter blues with the announcement of his 2015 Sounds of Summer Tour. The 40-city trek, which kicks off in Raleigh, North Carolina, on June 5th, will also include Kip Moore, Maddie & Tae and Canaan Smith. See a list of announced…… Source: RollingStone Link: Dierks Bentley […]
The Word – an improvisational gospel-jazz supergroup featuring pedal-steel guitarist Robert Randolph, keyboardist John Medeski and all three North Mississippi Allstars (guitarist Luther Dickinson, drummer Cody Dickinson and bassist Chris Chew) – will release their second studio album, Soul Food, on May 5th via Vanguard Records. The 12-track LP is the…… Source: RollingStone Link: Supergroup the […]
Country-pop superstar — and recent Country Music Hall of Fame inductee — Ronnie Milsap will be the subject of a new exhibit at the Nashville museum. Opening February 6th, “Ronnie Milsap: A Legend in My Time” will take a closer look at the lengthy career of the artist who arrived in Nashville…… Source: RollingStone Link: Ronnie Milsap […]
Today’s surprise release of “Homegrown,” the jubilant new single by Zac Brown Band, marks the official start of a new chapter for the Grammy-winning group. (Listen to the track below.) It’s the first taste of their next album, tentatively due in spring, which Brown says will have “a little bit…… Source: RollingStone Link: Zac Brown […]
“This is obviously an incredibly special night for me,” Emmylou Harris announced after finally emerging halfway through her very own tribute concert at D.A.R. Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., Saturday night. Sitting with Kris Kristofferson in box seats to the side of the stage, the iconic singer-songwriter spent most of…… Source: RollingStone Link: Emmylou Harris […]
Following a year spent largely out of the spotlight to start a family, Kelly Clarkson has returned with a new single dubbed “Heartbeat Song.” The uptempo track is the singer’s first since becoming a mother this past June. Clarkson also revealed to the Elvis Duran Morning Show that her seventh album will be titled Piece…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Kelly […]