It’s been more than a year since Paramore released their self-titled fourth album a long-playing sonically ambitious effort that was as much a reboot (their first LP as a three-piece) as it was a risk There weren’t many major-label rock bands releasing four-sided 17-track hour-plus records (complete with “interludes” strings…
Classic rocker Jackson Browne country legend Loretta Lynn virtuosic accordionist Flaco Jimenez and genre-defying bluesman Taj Mahal will take home lifetime achievement awards at the Americana Music Honors and Awards ceremony in Nashville this fall See Where Jackson Browne’s ‘Late for the Sky’ Falls on Our 500 Greatest Albums List Known the…
The rain picks up as Colt Ford’s publicist leads the way to the gleaming tour coach parked outside a Nashville rehearsal studio We find Ford reclining at the table in the bus’ front lounge and he extends a hearty welcome explaining that he too had escaped the elements earlier in…
As part of his label Third Man Records’ “Vault Package” series Jack White is issuing a live double-LP of rare White Stripes recordings titled Live Under the Lights of the Rising Sun The duo which broke up in 2011 recorded the tracks on their first overseas trip during Tokyo gigs…
Google’s $39 million purchase of Songza a 3-year-old company specializing in custom playlists signals the latest big thing in digital music curation When Beats Music launched its streaming service earlier this year founder Jimmy Iovine said “The song that comes next is as important as the song that’s playing right now”…
“This ain’t farewell it’s goodbye” Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil sings in the group’s first song in two years “All Bad Things Must End” The group is currently playing the tune as the centerpiece of the set list for its “Final Tour” video from which was captured at the group’s July…
On July 7 1956 Johnny Cash walked onto the Grand Ole Opry’s stage for the first time armed with an acoustic guitar his Tennessee Two bandmates and his soon-to-be iconic black suit “I Walk the Line” had been released two months earlier giving Cash one of the biggest hits of…
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and Cat Power’s Chan Marshall intertwine their voices over dreamy piano on “Wish I Was Here” a cut from Zach Braff’s upcoming film of the same name that hits theaters on July 18th The minimal ballad is available to stream at NPR “Every road that’s wrong seems like the road I’m […]
Police brought an early end to Public Enemy hypeman Flavor Flav’s annual Fourth of July party over the weekend confiscating over 100 pounds of illegal fireworks at his Las Vegas home and issuing the rapper two unspecified citations according to The Associated Press 500 Greatest Albums of All Time Public Enemy ‘It Takes a…
As a solo artist Cowboy Jack Clement didn’t record many albums The man could sing play guitar and write hit songs but he preferred to do most of his work behind the soundboard where he recorded classics for a far-flung group of country crooners and rootsy rockers including Jerry Lee…
