Sting’s musical The Last Ship has set January 24th as its farewell voyage. After 105 performances and 29 previews, the Broadway show – based on the musician’s autobiographical album of the same name – will end its run at New York’s Neil Simon Theatre. The Last Ship had opened on Broadway on…… Source: RollingStone Link: Sting's 'The […]

A little over two decades ago, Marilyn Manson introduced himself to the world with six shocking words: “I am the God of Fuck!” Since then, the self-proclaimed Antichrist Superstar has never ceased to find ways to disturb his listeners – and their parents – with videos depicting jocks fighting goths…… Source: RollingStone Link: The Golden […]

With Courtney Love’s opera debut scheduled for Thursday, the New York Times has premiered the singer’s performance of “All I Ever Wanted” from Todd Almond’s pop opera Kansas City Choir Boy. Accompanied by a cello and piano, Love sings, “Today I woke up to a phone call that I knew was coming /…… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

After a pair of consecutive Number One love songs in 1979 — “She Believes in Me” and “You Decorated My Life” — Kenny Rogers released about the furthest thing possible from a sappy, soaring ode: the revenge story-song “Coward of the County.” Written by Roger Bowling and Billy Edd Wheeler, and…… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: […]

On New Year’s Eve, Kanye West and Paul McCartney dropped their collaboration “Only One,” an Auto-Tuned, Stevie-tinged meditation on parenthood that a spokesperson calls “the first publicly available recording from what has become a prolific musical collaboration between these two legendary artists.” Some folks — most likely joking — started posting variations of “Who…… Source: RollingStone Link: 14 […]

Arizona’s departing state superintendent of public education, John Huppenthal, spent his last day of work targeting the Tucson Unified School District for violating the state’s ban on ethnic studies, according to the Arizona Daily Star. In particular, the “notice of noncompliance” he sent the district’s superintendent, Dr. H.T. Sanchez, on January…… Source: RollingStone Link: Rage Against […]

Every time a Kanye West fan buys an iTunes download, concert ticket or T-shirt, posts on his Facebook page, follows him on Twitter, views a YouTube video or streams a song on Spotify, all those clicks become valuable marketing data — meticulously documented by his record company, Universal Music. For years,…… Source: RollingStone Link: Follow Kanye […]

For his next album, Scotty McCreery is ready to take his signature deep-barrel baritone down a more classically country road — because the “Feelin’ It” singer is hoping to feel a few less pop hooks and few more banjo strums in his evolving sound. “We just had the meeting with the…… Source: RollingStone Link: Scotty […]

All roads start somewhere — even roads that go on forever. For Robert Earl Keen, that origin point is bluegrass music. He grew up with the stuff, listening to singers like Jimmie Rodgers and flatpickers like Norman Blake during his early years in southeast Texas. Years later, when he launched his…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]

2015 may not bring everything that Back to the Future II promised it would: flying cars, self-lacing shoes, we don’t see ’em happening over the next 12 months. But this year will definitely pack plenty of punch when it comes to cultural happenings. Mad Max will roar back out of…… Source: RollingStone Link: 2015 Preview: […]