Luke Bryan will once again pay tribute to his peanut farming roots by taking some small town detours this fall The country superstar’s sixth annual Farm Tour starts October 1st in Knoxville Tennessee hitting a handful of smaller Southeastern cities before wrapping October 11th in Macon Georgia A portion of…
“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…
Beck stopped by The Colbert Report on Monday night to chat briefly with host Stephen Colbert and play two songs One from his new album Morning Phase and the other off his 2012 collection of sheet music Song Reader which sees release in a physical form today July 29th Beck’s ‘Morning Phase’…
When Lady Gaga recalls her first meeting with golden-throated crooner Tony Bennett she still sounds impressed She had just performed a set of pop hits and a cover of Nat King Cole’s “Orange Colored Sky” – “a jazz song” she points out – at the Robin Hood Foundation benefit gala…
Prepare to enter a world of pure imagination this October as veteran thrash-funk eccentrics Primus release their eighth studio album a wall to (lickable) wall tribute to the 1971 musical Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory The clanging ill-angled LP titled Primus and the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble…
Less than a year after reissuing their first three albums as deluxe sets Led Zeppelin plan on putting out two more in the fall On October 28th the group will release deluxe editions of its 1971 album Led Zeppelin IV and its next record 1973’s Houses of the Holy The 40…
It’s been nearly a decade since Missy Elliott’s last solo album 2005’s The Cookbook but Timbaland says a new one may be on its way “It’s coming” the rapper’s longtime producer and songwriting partner tells Rolling Stone “It’s on her She got the first single it’s just a matter of…
Simian Mobile Disco recorded their last album 2012’s Unpatterns through an array of devices but for the forthcoming Whorl the London duo limited themselves to a pair of modular synths a sequencer and a mixing deck The 45 Best Albums of 2014 So Far “We sort thought ‘Why don’t we take the…
A little over halfway into 2014 Ariana Grande already has two big hits Her My Everything lead single “Problem” rose all the way to Number Two on the Hot 100 then the Zedd-featuring follow-up “Break Free” peaked at 15 After a few listens it seems possible that the new “Bang Bang”…
Last summer when Jenny Lewis left her Laurel Canyon home and hit the road for the Postal Service’s 10-year anniversary tour she’d already been working on her third solo album for nearly half a decade Her father had died in 2010 and Rilo Kiley — the band that saved Lewis…
