During her 40th appearance at the Grand Ole Ole Opry last month, Sunny Sweeney performed one of the standout tracks from her just-released album, Provoked. The bouncy “Backhanded Compliment” takes a humorous swipe at those well-meaning — but ultimately boneheaded — things people say to someone that don’t end up…
ASAP Rocky’s shows have always felt more punk rock than hip-hop. So when a fan at the rapper’s 2012 South by Southwest show lobbed a full beer can on stage, nearly hitting a member of Rocky’s crew, fans got the feeling that this may not end well. “Please! Don’t throw nothing at us…
Marianne Faithfull said in a recent interview that her boyfriend at the time, a heroin dealer named Jean de Breteuil, was responsible for Doors frontman Jim Morrison’s death in the summer of 1971. The singer recalled a sense of foreboding when Breteuil told her he intended to visit the Doors…
Stevie Nicks has handed out “The Dealer,” the first track from her upcoming solo album, 24 Karat Gold — Songs From the Vault. The upcoming album stands as the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman’s first LP since 2011’s In Your Dreams. The swinging, piano-driven cut comes complete with a lyric video and finds Nicks delivering an…
Frankie Ballard may sing about bad times making the good times better on his Number One smash “Helluva Life,” but the classic rock-inspired country shredder has nothing but a gilded road ahead of him: his first headlining run, that is. “You go through life and you have these goals and ambitions……
Ending months of speculation about their uncertain future, Joy Williams and John Paul White, the Grammy-winning duo better known as the Civil Wars, have announced that their musical partnership has officially come to an end. On indefinite hiatus since late 2012, the pair released a statement Tuesday, in which Williams…
With “Talk Dirty” and “Wiggle,” Jason Derulo has two of the biggest hits of the year, a pair of playful R&B club bangers that have ended up everywhere from barbeque playlists to a commercial for the Lifetime show Devious Maids. Going further in the latter direction, the singer recently covered…
Thanks to Parks and Recreation, we already know Chris Pratt’s got a knack for belting impassioned Dave Matthews-esque ballads about falling into pits and deceased mini-horses (RIP Li’l Sebastian), but the actor proved he’s no one-trick pony during an interview with DJ Whoo Kid on his radio show, Whoolywood Shuffle. Pratt appeared to…
Slipknot’s video for “The Negative One,” the masked headbangers’ first new song in six years, presents a surrealistic nightmare in which a woman has a nervous breakdown over a basin containing two goats’ heads in a dingy room. The group’s percussionist, M. Shawn Crahan, who wears the clown mask, directed…
“To my mind, ‘Regret’ was the last great New Order song,” bassist Peter Hook said last year. The chiming 1993 track was written under duress: four years after the band’s previous album (Technique), the quartet had reunited to raise funds for the Hacienda, the Manchester nightclub they owned. But “Regret” proved to…
