CMA Music Festival kicked off in Nashville on Thursday, offering the thousands of fans gathered a chance to see some of the genre’s biggest stars and most promising young artists. Joseph Llanes is the only photographer allowed in the backstage hallways of Nissan Stadium, where country music’s biggest acts are performing…. Source: RollingStone Link: CMA Music […]

Leon Bridges might be best known for spinning his own soul revival, but that doesn’t mean he can’t lay down a classic country number with a fellow Texan — in this case, a cover of Willie Nelson’s “Funny How Time Slips Away” with Robert Ellis. Bridges made a surprise appearance at… Source: RollingStone Link: See Robert […]

The night before speaking to Rolling Stone, Ben Bridwell went out to a concert and stayed up “late as crap.” On the morning of the interview, the Band of Horses frontman took his daughters to school (he has four) and went to a doctor’s appointment. “I got a mole removed, because I’m getting old… Source: RollingStone Link: Band of […]

The fifth Band of Horses record opens up in a confused drifting bubble: “filthy room, guitars out of tune,” Ben Bridwell sings on “Dull Times,” against a languidly spacey backing that suggests a pacific Pink Floyd. But rather than the sound of falling apart, it’s an evocation of finding your… Source: RollingStone Link: Why Are […]

“Country fans plan their whole year around this week,” the Cadillac Three’s Jaren Johnston told Rolling Stone Country Thursday before his group’s set at CMA Music Fest. That’s 85,000 fans to be (well, almost) exact. The Country Music Association’s annual Nashville extravaganza welcomes people from all over the world for four… Source: RollingStone Link: Inside […]

Diarrhea Planet made their television debut on Late Night With Seth Meyers Thursday night performing the rollicking “Ain’t a Sin to Win.” Their album Turn to Gold is out now. “The Tonight Show had President Barack Obama tonight, but we got Diarrhea Planet,” host Seth Meyers said as he introduced the Nashville… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]

Nick Jonas is talking up his third full-length as a look back at his two-year relationship with former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo, which fizzled out last June. As on any breakup album, regret and frustration predominate, and there are even flashes of bitterness, but the rhythms here are too brisk… Source: RollingStone Link: Last Year […]

Nick Jonas has spent over a decade in the business as a performer, but with his latest solo album, Last Year Was Complicated, the singer-songwriter is revealing a vulnerability and diving deeper into R&B in his follow-up to 2014’s Nick Jonas. But Jonas’ history goes deeper than being in a boy band, the Jonas Brothers,… Source: RollingStone Link: How Nick […]

Usher released hypnotic new single “Crash,” from his imminent eighth LP Flawed, set to drop this summer.  “Crash” was produced by f a l l e n and Carlos St. John and features Usher’s go-to heartbroken falsetto and rhetorical questions on the dance floor. “Would you mind if I still loved you?” he… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]

Who the hell were Spirit? It’s not a crime if you don’t remember the Los Angeles band that flourished in the late Sixties and early Seventies. They barely brushed the mainstream during their time, and since then, their songs haven’t exactly become staples of classic-rock radio. Spirit have become noteworthy… Source: RollingStone Link: Who Were […]