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…
Madonna has been at work in the studio compiling the follow-up to her 2012 effort MDNA and one of the album’s producers Diplo teased his process with the singer in a new interview with Idolator How Madonna Became Madonna An Oral History “We’ve written about seven songs now and hopefully maybe four…
Iggy Azalea has chimed in via Instagram about Nicki Minaj’s recent BET Awards acceptance speech for Best Female Hip-Hop Artist in which she appeared to hint at a feud with the Australian rapper While Minaj was at the mic she said “When you hear Nicki Minaj spit Nicki Minaj wrote…
Cryptic yes Unpredictable no “The wait is over…7/7″ reads a post on Garth Brooks’ website today as lightning flashes and thunder rolls in the background of the page See Where Garth Brooks’ ‘The Dance’ Falls on Our 100 Greatest Country Songs List So what’s the big announcement on Monday? We like to think…
It’s been a hot (and heated) summer on Music Row the Nashville neighborhood that houses many of the city’s recording studios and record labels RCA Studio A whose potential sale to a Tennessee-based development company sparked outrage from Nashville’s creative community last week has become a metaphor for the town’s…
Less than one month after releasing their surprise LP Niggas on the Moon experimental hip-hop crew Death Grips have broken up The group posted a picture of their farewell message — written on a napkin — to their Facebook page A representative for the group confirmed the band’s breakup to Rolling Stone Death…
Last week Fox officially confirmed the return of Keith Urban Jennifer Lopez and Harry Connick Jr as judges for Season 14 of American Idol and the “Cop Car” singer couldn’t be happier Keith Urban The Rolling Stone Country Interview “I think what this show is about at its core and its heart…
“Calm Down” Busta Rhymes’ frenetic breakneck new track from his forthcoming album Extinction Level Event 2 finds the veteran rapper trading 60-bar verses with Eminem whose rhymes range from the sublime to the sophomoric It’s not the duo’s first collaboration — see 2006’s “I’ll Hurt You” — but for Busta it represents the…
Cedella Marley the eldest daughter of reggae legend Bob Marley is campaigning to make the Women’s Jamaican Soccer Team become the first female Caribbean footballers to play in the 2015 Women’s World Cup The team has launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise $50000 to pay for equipment practices and travel expenses…
What does Ed Sheeran’s x album title really stand for? “Multiply” is the official pronunciation but maybe it’s just curse-word shorthand for “x@$%ing record sales” with albums down 15 percent this year and tracks down 13 percent Ed Sheeran’s Heartache and Wildest Nights THAT’S LOWER-CASE x AS IN xoxo NOT UPPER-CASE X…
