A long-in-development Hip Hop Hall of Fame and Museum hopes to raise million to open its first-ever location and a Youth Media Education center in Harlem. To get there, it has announced an initial 0,000 Matching Challenge Grant to kick off a new IndieGoGo campaign. If raised, the million dollars would allow the…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hip-Hop Hall […]
Perennial metal boogieman Marilyn Manson presents a new kind of nightmare in the video for his gothy dance single “Deep Six,” which will appear on his upcoming record The Pale Emperor. Rather than revisit the neo-Bosch grotesqueries or salacious drug orgies of past videos, the singer enlisted surrealist visual artist…… Source: RollingStone Link: See Marilyn […]
From the first time the Charlie Daniels staged his Volunteer Jam concert event in Nashville in October 1974, the caliber of talent and number of surprise performers kept fans returning year after year. To commemorate the legendary concert’s 40th anniversary, the star-studded event returns to Music City on August 12, 2015,…… Source: RollingStone Link: Charlie […]
In 2014, Ed Sheeran, Pharrell, Sam Smith and Nick Jonas dabbled in R&B crossovers; Lana Del Rey and Charli XCX flipped the bad-girl script; and Lorde didn’t release an album, but put forth her vision through EDM producers. Off the Top 40, were clutch of women whose versions of “pop” were singular…… Source: RollingStone Link: 20 Best […]
During the peak of his fame as Fatboy Slim, Norman Cook never knew where the beat would lead him. Take that night in 2001 when he DJ’d an Oscar party in Hollywood. “It wasn’t the best crowd reaction I’d ever had,” he says bemusedly. “John Cleese came up to me…… Source: RollingStone Link: Fatboy Slim […]
Two decades ago, Warren Griffin III and Nathaniel “Nate Dogg” Hale stormed the pop charts with “Regulate,” a back-and-forth tale about an attempted car-jacking that goes down on a clear black night in L.A.’s Long Beach. Recorded in Warren G’s apartment, the smooth, Michael McDonald-sampling quiet storm peaked at Number Two on…… Source: RollingStone Link: Warren G […]
When it was announced that Grimmy the Grim Reaper would be Stephen Colbert’s final guest on The Colbert Report, fans speculated whether the future Late Show host was killing off his satirical character. Instead, Colbert’s Colbert became immortal, and he closed out his nine-year Comedy Central run with a performance…… Source: RollingStone Link: See Stephen […]
Trace Adkins is set to appear in Roadrunner, an upcoming movie about car racing that’s being compared to the classic Burt Reynolds film, Smokey and the Bandit. Clint Eastwood’s 28-year-old son, Scott, is the only other publicly known cast member at this point, and a release date has yet to…… Source: RollingStone Link: Trace Adkins […]
SiriusXM has announced a stacked New Year’s lineup with live concerts by Elton John, Willie Nelson, Skrillex, Diplo and others to air throughout the night and into the following day on multiple channels. Nelson’s headlining set at the Moody Theater in Austin, as part of Austin City Limits Live, will air on the country legend’s…… Source: RollingStone Link: Willie […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Walking? Check. In a winter wonderland? Well, it marks the beginning of the season. Bells ringing? Sure, along with trumpets and some fiddles. Source: Yahoo Music Link: NYC event marks winter solstice with music parades