Amy Winehouse’s father Mitch will be putting out a new album of his own But Beautiful to raise money for the Amy Winehouse Foundation according to the BBC The record will consist of songs that Amy helped her father pick out as she had done for his debut album Rush of…
You can take the boy out of Arkansas but you can’t take the Arkansas out of the boy … even when he’s covering a rap song A History of Hick-Hop The 27-Year-Old Story of Country Rap Country-to-the-core hitmaker Joe Nichols has started incorporating the 1992 Sir Mix-a-Lot song “Baby Got Back” into…
Nearly two decades after a coastal feud left Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG dead the Beastie Boys’ Mike D is still trying to make sense of it “It still boggles my mind” he told Vanity Fair in the interview below “It escalated so fast” Tupac’s Final Words Revealed by Police Officer…
Todd Snider has bared his hard-living soul on such albums as 2004’s East Nashville Skyline and his latest Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables But Snider a disciple of singer-songwriters like close friend John Prine saves his best stories for the stage entertaining crowds not just with his songs but with…
“Weird Al” Yankovic’s viral video extravaganza may be over but that doesn’t mean the celebration behind his first number one album Mandatory Fun has to end In honor of pop’s top parodist the folks at whiteboard video animation company TruScribe have created a video that illustrates the covers of all 14 “Weird…
The cancellation of what would’ve been a truly bizarre production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar is now the subject of a lawsuit between the Really Useful Group — Webber’s production company — and Michael Cohl the main promoter behind the failed adaptation The New York…
For the tenth year in a row Lollapalooza will return to Chicago this weekend bringing its eclectic mix of artists and ephemera to Grant Park And once again the fest is taking pity on those who won’t be able to make the trek to the Windy City for the rock…
Muse frontman Matt Bellamy teased the band’s in-the-works new album during a brief impromptu Twitter Q&A last week offering this encouraging nugget of information to fans “It’s gonna get heavy” Find Out Where Muse’s ‘The 2nd Law’ Ranks on Our List of 2012’s 50 Best Albums While details were scarce Bellamy said that…
E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt has begun putting together a record for Sixties pop hit-maker Darlene Love whose voice appeared on countless Phil Spector–produced singles like “He’s a Rebel” and “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” Van Zandt says he promised her he’d make a record with her about three decades ago “depending…
“Weird Al” Yankovic was initially very unsure about appearing on Wheel of Fortune when he was approached by the show in 1994 “I said to my manager ‘That sounds kind of cheesy and I don’t know if I want to do it’” he says “Then he said ‘You’ll be playing…
