What song did Bruce Springsteen originally intend to give to the Ramones? Which city did the singer send greetings from on his debut album? If you know the answers you would’ve done OK on Thursday night’s Jeopardy! which devoted an entire category to the singer MC Alex Trebek Unleashes Nineties Hip-Hop…
A couple of Decembers ago back before he had any idea he’d be launching his first tour in 15 years Barry Gibb sat at home in Miami watching Fox News on his couch Rep John Boehner was talking about the fiscal cliff Gibb was flat on his back in white…
Dave Grohl said the fan-orchestrated and crowdfunded concert the Foo Fighters agreed to play in Richmond Virginia could be the future of how bands plan their tours in a new interview with South African radio station 5FM ‘Rolling Stone’ Readers Choose the 10 Best Foo Fighters Songs “I’m telling you it could become…
Not many gigs start with the audience being asked to change into hospital gowns and end with the star being carted off in an ambulance – but that was how Jack White’s latest secret show in London played out Blues Genes 15 of Jack White’s Biggest Influences White has made a habit…
Singer-songwriter Nick Drake made a huge mark on folk music with only three albums to his name so the revelation that a reel of six previously unheard recordings exists could be a massive contribution to his catalog According to the New York Times the recordings will go up for auction on…
First Aid Kit (sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg) may nail harmonies as tight as the Carter Family’s but it wasn’t exactly to the manner born “We didn’t grow up with country music at all” Johanna tells Rolling Stone Country calling from her native Sweden It was a joint obsession with…
An old joke “What do you call someone who likes to hang out with musicians? A drummer” Over the years musicians have made the transition from a drum kit to a guitar for many reasons ranging from the need to avoid the physical demands of drumming to the desire to…
After a striking trolling set at Glastonbury Jack White stopped by the BBC’s Maida Vale studios to chat with DJ Zane Lowe and deliver a walloping 90-minute set which you’ll be able to hear in its entirety until Wednesday July 10th White’s setlist culled heavily from his new album Lazaretto and…
Despite a report that he was unhappy with the casting Eric Wright Jr – the son of NWA rapper Eazy-E who records as Lil Eazy-E – tells Rolling Stone he has embraced Jason Mitchell the actor portraying his father in the Ice Cube–produced NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton “Jason has come…
By the summer of 1980 Led Zeppelin knew they had to make some rather serious changes to avoid being dismissed as dinosaurs from a distant rock & roll past The rise of punk and New Wave had made the sort of stadium spectacles they invented seem cliche and pompous so…
