Long before he rebranded himself as a chart-topping country singer Darius Rucker built his reputation as “Hootie” the baritone-voiced frontman of Hootie & the Blowfish The group specialized in pop songs disguised as bar-band tunes — or was it the other way around? — with Rucker at the forefront singing…
After months of intriguing Weezer teasers the alt-rock icons have finally announced the release date of their ninth studio LP Everything Will Be Alright in the End The Ric Ocasek-produced album will enter the world on September 30th via Republic Records Readers’ Poll The 10 Best Weezer Songs The announcement comes courtesy of…
Bruce Springsteen plays a post-apocalyptic survivor haunted by the past in the short film for his High Hopes track “Hunter of Invisible Game” that debuted Wednesday on his website After the singer-songwriter looks at photographs of his past Cormac McCarthy–like visions of women doing laundry are juxtaposed with images of him…
In the 1982 song “If I Heaven Ain’t a Lot Like Dixie” Hank Williams Jr made it clear that he didn’t want to enter the Pearly Gates if the afterlife wasn’t akin to his beloved South Kip Moore shares and updates that sentiment in the video for his new single…
For Young the Giant “Mind Over Matter was a little mantra of trying to get past these certain obstacles that one makes three-dimensional but which are actually a figment of our own imagination” the band’s frontman Sameer Gadhia told Rolling Stone earlier this year The title track from the band’s latest LP…
Alex Ebert frontman for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros hasn’t stopped moving — even though the band is on a brief break from its summer tour the first without singer Jade Castrinos Between relocating to New Orleans and scoring a new film by director JC Chandor the songwriter is…
“Beautiful Son” is the great forgotten Hole single It was released when Courtney Love’s band was best known for the unholy squall of Pretty on the Inside (At that point Love herself was probably best known for having married Kurt Cobain) “Beautiful Son” anticipated the gut-punch power of Hole’s Live…
It ain’t over ’till it’s over On Tuesday Aiken Promotions the company presenting Garth Brooks’ five comeback shows at Dublin’s 80000-seat Croke Park announced that the July 25-29 concerts were canceled The word came following several days of intense negotiations that failed to salvage the shows after the Dublin City Council…
Justin Bieber pleaded no contest on Wednesday to one count of misdemeanor vandalism after egging his neighbor’s house earlier this year according to a statement by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office The singer will have to complete five days of community service and attend an anger management program He…
Director and actor Zach Braff is still fully aware of the impact the platinum-selling soundtrack to his 2004 movie Garden State had So when he began work on Wish I Was Here the Scrubs alum’s first major movie since his ode to New Jersey–bred ennui he devised a way to…
