Robin Thicke’s personal crusade to win back his estranged wife actress Paula Patton just got a bit more awkward In the depressing new video for his slinky single “Get Her Back” (from his upcoming LP Paula) the disheveled singer croons his love-lost plea directly into the camera as uncomfortably personal text… Source
The upcoming Lifetime network biopic on late R&B artist Aaliyah will include information about her contentious relationship with R Kelly the New York Post reports The two singers were allegedly – and illegally – married in 1994 when Aaliyah was just 15 and Kelly was 27 Aaliyah who died in a 2001… Source
In order to make his new album Noise vs Beauty Bassnectar needed to stay in one spot for more than a night at a time So he gave up touring for six months using his time at home to experiment with a few new recording and songwriting techniques “After I… Source
It’s thunderstorming in Barcelona so Annie Clark – who performs as St Vincent and who “really really really” wants to go to the beach – is forced to make other plans “You visit a lot of museums and aquariums when you’re on tour” she says crossing the rain-slicked plaza of… Source
When Joe Satriani recorded his self-titled debut EP he had two aspirations One was to make the “weirdest record ever” The other was “to do things on my guitar that nobody else has done before” Ultimately he accomplished both The record as it came out in 1984 found the Bay… Source
Weeks after howling his way through one of Rolling Stone Country’s favorite sets at CMA Music Fest 2014 country-soul songwriter Drake White has signed with Dot Records the historic Tennessee-based label that launched in 1950 closed in 1977 and reopened this spring as an imprint of Big Machine Label Group 10… Source
Today’s ravers might prefer harder sounds than their Y2K forebearers did but whether they realize it or not both generations have peaked to heavy pulse of tracks released by Spinnin’ Records a label founded in 1999 by a publisher and an A&R rep Eelko van Kooten and Roger de Graf… Source
For the last couple of years actor Jeff Bridges has been making music with and touring with a backing band called the Abiders a group of Santa Barbara California musicians whose name pays homage to one of the most memorable lines in Bridges’ most memorable movie The Big Lebowski But… Source
On a Friday night in Montreal DJ Vice a eight-year resident DJ at Tao Las Vegas held out about an hour to play DJ Snake’s crunktacular “Turn Down for What” – at the time the fourth most popular song in America and easily the most raucous thing on the entire… Source
The Americana Music Association has announced half of the 160 artists set to play its 15th annual AmericanaFest this September in Nashville Lee Ann Womack Marty Stuart Hayes Carll and Rhett Miller are among those included in the initial announcement 100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time Lee Ann Womack Running September… Source
