Nalinee Darmrong was a teenager living in Washington, D.C., in 1984, when a friend gave her a cassette tape containing the music of a then-emerging British band called the Smiths. About a year later, she went to see the Smiths perform in D.C. during the Meat Is Murder tour, and… Source: RollingStone Link: Smiths Photographer […]
Frankie Ballard released his third album El Rio on Friday (June 10th) in the midst of the CMA Music Festival, but while he was enjoying the crowds and hearing what fans think of the new music, he admitted that he had to get out of Nashville in order to make… Source: RollingStone Link: Frankie Ballard […]
A new music rights initiative aims to streamline the way labels and artists get paid when their works are streamed. The Open Music Initiative (OMI), a joint effort by the Berklee College of Music, MIT and others, has managed to attract support from the three major labels, several major streaming… Source: RollingStone Link: Music Royalties […]
That’s a wrap. CMA Music Fest 2016 ended with fireworks — literally and figuratively — as Little Big Town, Thomas Rhett, Brett Eldredge, Keith Urban and Luke Bryan played Sunday night at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium to the departing crowd of country fans from all over the globe. Rolling Stone Country… Source: RollingStone Link: CMA Music […]
Adam Levine has offered to pay for the funeral of Christina Grimmie, his former team member on The Voice Season Six, who was shot and killed last week following a concert in Orlando. Grimmie’s brother Marcus wrote on Facebook early Monday morning that the Maroon 5 singer “personally called my mother and… Source: RollingStone Link: Adam Levine […]
The third album from singer-songwriter Esmé Patterson keeps pulling you in directions you might not expect – musically, emotionally and even physically. Opening track “Feel Right” bops around like a dance-mad Sixties rock & roll ’45, but its bottle-rocket guitar flares, light-speed drive and sprinting bass call to mind “Fa cé-La,”… Source: RollingStone Link: We Were […]
“It’s like country and emo mixing perfectly, and I love it,” Kacey Musgraves announced midway through her set, before calling co-headliner Conor Oberst onstage Saturday night at Brooklyn’s Northside Festival in Williamsburg. Oberst then joined Musgraves for a spontaneous duet on Hank Williams’ “Hey Good Lookin’,” capping off an evening… Source: RollingStone Link: Kacey Musgraves, […]
“There’s only so much letting go you can ask someone to do,” Adrianne Lenker of Big Thief sings on the title track from the Brooklyn band’s debut. How much letting go, you ask, Not a whole motherfuck of a lot, judging by Lenker’s songs, which seem cut from memories too… Source: RollingStone Link: Masterpiece
Chris Young gave a bravura performance at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium during CMA Music Festival on June 11th, but he had already started the ball rolling with his June 10th performance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Young was joined by Vince Gill for the appearance to perform his latest… Source: RollingStone Link: See Chris […]
Following the shooting in Orlando that left 50 dead and dozens in critical condition, the worst on a specifically gay gathering in the country’s history, singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge says she was inspired to pen a new song in reaction to the news. Etheridge had performed the night before at the Michigan Cannabis… Source: RollingStone Link: Melissa […]