Paul McCartney has lived through plenty of cultural changes – including, it seems, an era in which video games have soundtracks written by legendary former Beatles. This song for the new game Destiny is a gently ringing paean to human possibility and discovery recorded with a massive orchestra that comes…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hope for […]

It’s a quarter after one, Blake’s a little drunk and with nothing on TV, the reigning CMA Male Vocalist of the Year decides to see if an old flame is willing to partake in the year’s most emotionally devastating booty call. On his previous Monroe duet, “You Ain’t Dolly (And…… Source: RollingStone Link: Lonely Tonight

Hip-hop legends get together to vent their rage, clear their heads and wonder what’s next after a year that seemed to offer gut-punch after gut-punch of good old-fashioned American brutality. Chuck D is righteously stentorian as he declares, “We are the ones with childhood dreams/But adulthood brings nightmares and screams,” and…… Source: RollingStone Link: The People

Today saw a happy ending to a story that’s galvanized passionate responses from musicians the likes of Paul McCartney and Dave Grohl — the fight to save Nashville’s RCA Studio A. According to the Nashville Scene, Curb Records founder Mike Curb has teamed up with Tennessee philanthropists Chuck Elcan and…… Source: RollingStone Link: Historic RCA […]

If the Vacation movie series’ “Cousin Eddie” (Randy Quaid) has a favorite holiday song, it’s probably Robert Earl Keen’s “Merry Christmas From the Family.” The tongue-in-cheek tune, from the Texas country icon’s 1994 Gringo Honeymoon album, sets the drunken scene for a dysfunctional brood’s holiday gathering, complete with bean dip,…… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Angaleena […]

iTunes’ Official Music Charts for the week ending December 22, 2014: Source: Yahoo Music Link: The top 10 songs and albums on the iTunes Store

It was 45 years ago today that Merle Haggard recorded his classic pro-military (and anti-protestors) tune, “The Fightin’ Side of Me.” The song was to serve as the follow-up single to the similarly patriotic “Okie From Muskogee,” which had, just a few months earlier, catapulted the singer to country mega-stardom. The…… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Merle […]

Rodney Atkins will release his first greatest hits collection in February. The album will include his six chart-toppers: “If You’re Going Thru Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows),” “Watching You,” “These Are My People,” “Cleaning This Gun (Come On in Boy),” “It’s America” and “Take a Back Road.” The other…… Source: RollingStone Link: Rodney Atkins […]

Named Bajo Sexto, the project is a joint venture between Waxman, Vector Management founder Ken Levitan and the Hall. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Adele's Jonathan Waxman Is Opening a Taqueria in The Country Music Hall of Fame

Country Music Hall of Fame vocalist Ray Price died a year ago this month, but before he succumbed to pancreatic cancer, he made a series of final trips to the studio. The result was his last batch of recordings, the emotionally vulnerable Beauty Is…The Final Sessions. The album, released this past…… Source: RollingStone Link: Ray Price's […]