The legendary composer says he turned down the chance out of respect for Sergio Leone Source: Yahoo Music Link: Ennio Morricone Regrets Not Writing Music for Clint Eastwood

An upcoming musical adaptation of the 2003 Jack Black comedy School of Rock will bust down Broadway doors in the fall of 2015, with previews beginning on November 2nd at the Winter Garden Theatre, and an official opening scheduled for December 6th, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Like Richard Linklater’s movie, the…… Source: RollingStone Link: 'School […]

WISHING YOU ALL A LUMP OF THIS CHART TOPPER FOR CHRISTMAS: A year ago, if I’d challenged you to predict the Top Three first-week sales numbers, would you have answered Taylor Swift, Coldplay and rapper J. Cole? The first one’s obvious, the second possible and the third – like winning your NCAA-tournament pool by…… Source: RollingStone Link: On the […]

George Harrison, the Bee Gees and Buddy Guy are among a number of artists who will be receiving a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award during the festivities surrounding next year’s Grammy Awards. The Recording Academy will also honor country duo the Louvin Brothers, jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter, composer Pierre Boulez and Tejano music accordionist Flaco Jiménez. Along…… Source: RollingStone Link: […]

Exactly 33 years ago today, Buck Owens used his talents to get out of a speeding ticket. The late pioneer of the Bakersfield Sound made a cameo on the wildly popular show, The Dukes of Hazzard, on December 18, 1981, finding himself caught in Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane’s “Celebrity Speed Trap.”…… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: […]

Billy Corgan has been asked to revisit the heyday of Nineties alternative rock a number of times while promoting the Smashing Pumpkins’ most recent record, Monuments to an Elegy, but in a new interview with The Guardian, the rocker seemed to hit a breaking point, saying: “Right now that era is…… Source: RollingStone Link: Billy Corgan: […]

A two-hour Black Keys concert, recorded earlier this year in Houston will air after “The Howard Stern Birthday Bash: Director’s Cut” on SiriusXM Howard 100 or 101 at 11:15 p.m. EST/8:15 p.m. PST on December 19th. The Black Keys are also kicking off a charity raffle, with the winner receiving frontman Dan…… Source: RollingStone Link: Howard […]

The Who have added some soon-to-be Rock and Roll Hall of Fame firepower to join them on the road when the Tommy rockers bring their Who Hits 50! Tour to North America next year: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Rock Hall Class of 2015 inductees, will serve as opening act on both North…… Source: RollingStone Link: The Who […]

Happy birthday to Keith Richards, who was born in a crossfire hurricane on this date back in 1943. In celebration, treat yourself to “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” Number 125 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and even more of a gas, gas, gas in…… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Keith […]

Big Boi sets out on a stampede of salacious rhymes in a new remix of “Animals,” Maroon 5’s latest single off their latest LP, V. The new version, which arrives via Pigeons and Planes, peels back a few layers of the pulsating original, placing a relentless kick drum up front and flipping the driving…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Big […]