Bettye LaVette opens her forthcoming album, Worthy, with a tune written by Bob Dylan, reworking one of the often-covered singer-songwriter’s least covered cuts: 1990 Under the Red Sky single “Unbelievable.” “I think it’s unbelievable,” LaVette says of the original recording, which she fills out with rising vocals and a little funk…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Bettye […]
Andy Kim co-wrote one of the most famous pop songs of all time at age 16. Now, at 62, he is right back where he started: trying to find his place in an ever-changing music landscape that seemingly has no room for him. However, for the first time in the Montreal native’s…… Source: RollingStone Link: How […]
Just over a month after Bruce Springsteen launched his archival concert project live.brucespringsteen.net, the E Street Band rocker has updated the download service with one of the most in-demand gigs from his legendary Darkness on the Edge of Town jaunt: An August 9th, 1978 performance from Cleveland, Ohio’s Agora Theatre and Ballroom. The…… Source: RollingStone Link: Bruce […]
Tomorrow morning, on Christmas Day, rap fans can wake up and download Fabolous’ The Young OG Project. “When you get to a certain age, Christmas is for your kids,” says the Brooklyn MC. “Other than that, you’re just sitting at home, eating, watching some football. Now this album can become…… Source: RollingStone Link: Fabolous on […]
For the fifth installment of Kiss’ annual Kiss Kruise, the hard rock legends will perform their classic 1975 live LP, Alive!, in its entirety. According to the event’s website, the band will play the album during the Kiss Kruise V indoor show, which will take fans back to “the golden age when…… Source: RollingStone Link: Kiss Prep […]
1. Parquet Courts, Sunbathing AnimalToo many excellent albums this year for a mere Top 10 — 2014 was the kind of music year where I’d wake up in the morning already excited about the first song I was going to play. And it was usually one of these Parquet Courts…… Source: RollingStone Link: Rob Sheffield's […]
Sony/ATV Music Publishing’s assets include the Beatles catalog Source: Yahoo Music Link: Sony Reportedly Considering Sale of Music Publishing Division
When producer and Kanye West collaborator Malik Yusef was 10, he would collect and recycle empty cans with his unemployed father to help pay for “food, lights and heat” for his family. While his early green efforts were more financially driven than altruistically motivated, they began an environmentalist streak that continued…… Source: RollingStone Link: Common, Ne-Yo […]
At various points in Father John Misty’s musical account of his honeymoon, the eccentric folk-rocker and his newlywed celebrate “satanic Christmas Eve,” “lift up your wedding dress someone was probably murdered in” and ruminate on how “dating for 20 years just feels pretty civilian.” Playing out like one long, stream-of-consciousness…… Source: RollingStone Link: Chateau Lobby […]
Alas, poor Colin Meloy. Cursed with a photographic memory, post-collegiate vocabulary and melancholy disposition, he must relive his life’s every insecurity in Dickensian six-minute indie-folk ballads. His latest single with the Decemberists finds the singer meditating on an unrequited teenage love he had for a downright stubborn, “sibylline” would-be paramour……. Source: RollingStone Link: Lake Song