Earlier this year, former LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy and IBM made music out of U.S. Open tennis matches by using a computer algorithm to synthesize the players’ moves via the IBM cloud. Now he’s releasing 12 remixes from those original tracks, in association with IBM, on the album Remixes…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear James […]
Elton John will marry his partner of more than two decades, David Furnish, this weekend at a ceremony in England. The couple underwent a civil partnership in 2005, according Us Weekly, and has been waiting for a same-sex marriage to be legal in the country before planning their wedding; a…… Source: RollingStone Link: Elton John […]
Little Big Town professed a provocative crush. Trisha Yearwood came out of retirement swinging. Kenny Chesney made us all feel 16 again. And Nikki Lane made good of being bad. Our picks for the top country radio releases of 2014 include the predictable love lost, love found and love-to-drink story lines, but…… Source: RollingStone Link: 25 Best […]
Musician and poet Michael Franti was working in a Miami studio when he got the news that a grand jury had decided not to indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of unarmed civilian Eric Garner. “I was really shocked,” he tells Rolling Stone. “Having seen the tape of the…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Michael […]
When the Eagles reunited inside a Los Angeles bar on December 6, 1993, to appear in Travis Tritt’s “Take It Easy” video, the guys hadn’t spoken in years. The band broke up in 1980, calling it quits after a benefit show on July 31, 1980. Halfway through that concert, Glenn Frey walked…… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: […]
St. Vincent has shared the magnetic, galaxy-spanning music video for “Birth in Reverse.” The clip, directed by frequent collaborator Willo Perron, finds art-rocker Annie Clark displaying her trademark robot stage moves, blinking ominously into the camera and shredding a malfunctioning modem-style solo against a backdrop of smoke and stars. Clark first shared the…… Source: RollingStone Link: St. […]
As D’Angelo just taught us with the surprise release of his astoundingly great LP Black Messiah, the year in music ain’t over until it’s over. For all we know, Madonna, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar and Adele are going to drop surprise albums sometime before the ball drops. (They probably won’t.)…… Source: RollingStone Link: Readers' Poll: […]
It was, by all accounts, a very good year to be Eric Church, Jason Aldean or Luke Bryan. But which of them was the year’s top country artist overall? It depends on which year-end chart statistics you consult. Church, whose The Outsiders garnered four Grammy nominations, had the best-selling album of…… Source: RollingStone Link: Eric […]
Here’s to messiahs worth waiting for. D’Angelo has kept the world fiending 14 years for the follow-up to his Crisco-thick R&B classic, Voodoo, but as the man himself purrs in “Sugah Daddy,” “Can’t snatch the meat out of the lioness’ mouth/Sometimes you gotta just ease it out.” Black Messiah shows how deep easy can go. D’Angelo…… Source: RollingStone Link: Black Messiah
Few bands looked more promising in the late Nineties than Rustic Overtones. The Maine band spent years building a devoted New England following before recording their fourth album with Tony Visconti (David Bowie, Iggy Pop). Soon, Clive Davis signed them to release the big-budget LP on Arista Records. But before it was released,…… Source: RollingStone Link: ¡Viva Nueva!