A lounge adds music, a Belgian beer bar celebrates Christmas and a local fish market expands their hours. DOWNTOWN— Saltbox Restaurant + Bar is adding live entertainment to up the atmosphere in their downstairs lounge, from acoustic music to DJ-spun tunes; Soul Thursdays feature half-priced wine and music from 7 to 9 p.m. and the bar […]
A federal jury has ended a 10-year battle between Apple and consumers by deciding that the tech company did not block songs sold by competing stores from playing on iPods purchased from 2006 and 2009. The lawsuit alleged that the company had done so in order to monopolize the digital music market……. Source: RollingStone Link: Apple Wins […]
Behold the American Country Countdown Awards. In all its super-sized glory, country music’s latest awards show debuted Monday night. Essentially replacing the now-forgotten American Country Awards, which also aired on Fox, the ACCAs recognized the best artists, songs and albums of the year based primarily on radio play. Staged at Nashville’s Music…… Source: RollingStone Link: 10 […]
Ghostface Killah has enlisted The Wire and Boardwalk Empire star Michael K. Williams to portray Tony Starks, the legendary rapper’s alter-ego and vigilante hero at the heart of his new concept album, 36 Seasons. Williams appears in the new video for the album’s first single, “Love Don’t Live Here No More,” which was directed by Dan…… Source: RollingStone Link: Ghostface […]
New audio revealing the distraught mental state of Creed’s Scott Stapp have surfaced, with TMZ posting four clips taken from various phone calls the singer made last month. Two of the clips were taken from a 911 call Stapp made from the side of a Florida highway after abandoning his car. Stapp…… Source: RollingStone Link: Scott […]
If you’ve ever seen the Band Perry perform Queen’s “Fat Bottomed Girls,” you know the sibling trio has a knack for putting a modern — yet respectful — spin on songs that came before its time. The group does the same, albeit with a much tamer delivery, with a Glen Campbell…… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch the […]
Nobody knows what got underneath Mike Love’s skin when the Beach Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. It was only the third ceremony and they were getting in alongside the Beatles and Bob Dylan, so he could hardly feel his group was somehow…… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Mike […]
iTunes’ Official Music Charts for the week ending December 15, 2014: Source: Yahoo Music Link: The top 10 songs and albums on the iTunes Store
By Dan Levine OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – Apple Inc won an antitrust trial on Tuesday when a U.S. jury decided the company did not act improperly when it restricted music purchases for iPod users to Apple's iTunes digital store. The verdict was read in an Oakland, California federal court. The plaintiffs, a group of individuals […]
In 2014, dance music continued its expansion, ignoring the boundaries that once divided regions, genres and fans. Duck Sauce added drops to doo-wop, Bunji Garlin used trance and trap to make his soca music hit even harder and Fatima Al Qadiri created an album of sonic dispatches from an imaginary…… Source: RollingStone Link: 20 Best […]