Keith Urban is renowned as being one of country music’s finest guitar players, equal parts nimble and melodic. But at a recent tour stop in Gilford, New Hampshire, it was the six string talents of a fan named Rob Joyce that ended up stealing the show. Joyce, of Berlin, Massachusetts, was… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

Blake Shelton, Carrie Underwood and Dierks Bentley are lending their voices to the sports world this year. For a second season, Shelton provides the opening clip to all NASCAR races broadcast on NBC. He’s rewritten the lyrics to his 2014 tune, “Bringing Back the Sunshine” for the series, and co-stars with… Source: RollingStone Link: Blake […]

In a business full of towering egos, the two rockers seamlessly shared a stage as they opened Quebec City's sprawling summer music festival. Sting and Gabriel, the former frontmen respectively of The Police and Genesis, are not strangers to each other, having toured together in the late 1980s to benefit Amnesty International. The human rights […]

Schoolboy Q has a fraught relationship with his fame. “I thought rap was just, you make this album, you do the shows here and there, and then that’s it,” he tells Rolling Stone. “But it’s a lot of press, it’s a lot of shows, it’s a lot of pressure. When… Source: RollingStone Link: Schoolboy Q: […]

Brandy Clark extends a cautious invitation in a chilling solo version of “You Can Come Over,” from her recently released Big Day in a Small Town. While her previous performance clips of tracks from one of the best albums of 2016 have spotlighted the singer-songwriter and her guitar, “You Can Come… Source: RollingStone Link: See Brandy […]

Miguel has shared the demo of a new track titled “How Many” in the aftermath of the police shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile outside the Twin Cities, Minnesota. Like Beyoncé, Jay Z, Drake and many others, Miguel wonders on his new track “how many” people must die… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Miguel's […]

British singer John Newman explores post-break-up drama and insecurities on his suave new single, “Olé,” co-written by Scottish EDM star Calvin Harris. Related: Sam Smith and 11 Pop Stars Who Broke Via Dance Records “I see online that you’ve begun to be a good girl and take trips with your boyfriend/… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]

At the end of his latest album, Still Brazy, YG tackles a number of social issues with a provocative, searing trio of tracks. Transitioning from “FDT” — which stands for “Fuck Donald Trump” — to “Blacks and Browns” and ending with “Police Get Away Wit Murder,” the Compton rapper sets… Source: RollingStone Link: See YG […]

French prog-metal veterans Gojira blend vivid, sinister images in their video for “Low Lands,” a track from the band’s acclaimed sixth LP, Magma. The clip, directed by Alain Duplantier, cousin of singer-guitarist Joe Duplantier and drummer Mario Duplantier, features the brothers’ childhood home in Ondres, France, near a stormy ocean. “You’re invisible/ You’re in everything,”… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

This hard rock supergroup – which unites members of Mastodon, Queens of the Stone Age and the recently reunited At the Drive-In –couldn’t possibly surpass its marquee billing. But the band’s debut EP carves out its own compelling niche, combining Queens’ scorched stoner-metal squall, Mastodon’s grandiose prog-metal bombast and ATDI’s bruising… Source: RollingStone Link: Gone Is […]