Conor Oberst has dropped his libel suit against Joanie Faircloth who accused him of raping her and has since recanted her claims On July 18th the Bright Eyes frontman’s attorney filed a one-page document viewable at Buzzfeed in which they voluntarily dismissed his suit without prejudice Conor Oberst’s New Morning Bright…
Near the front door of Avicii’s rented house in the Hollywood Hills there are 30 pairs of shoes and a dozen neatly stacked baseball caps The living room has a PS4 hooked up to the TV Black leather couches are full of guitars and piles of clothes It looks like…
Ketch Secor doesn’t own a laptop or a smartphone so most days when he wakes up on tour with his band Old Crow Medicine Show he’ll head to the local library to check his e-mail “I was just in a library in Gallup New Mexico with 25 Navajos” he says…
The outspoken homophobes of Westboro Baptist Church protested Panic! at the Disco’s Sunday night concert in Kansas City Missouri But the glam-rock band harnessed that hatemongering into a platform for a good cause “Today @WBCSays is going to picket us For every member of WBC that actually shows up we will donate…
Over the past week Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder has made a number of comments speaking out against war and has dismissed speculation that they were directed at Israel Most recently at his July 18th solo show in Meco Portugal the singer addressed his feelings about war at length and…
On July 29th Eric Clapton is releasing The Breeze an LP of songs originally recorded by recently deceased southern guitar hero JJ Cale Although the former Cream guitarist scored Seventies solo hits with covers of Cale’s “Cocaine” and “After Midnight” his new album features guests like Mark Knopfler Tom Petty John…
Folk icon and civil rights activist Pete Seeger – who popularized songs like “If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)” “Turn! Turn! Turn!” and “We Shall Overcome” – died at age 94 in January less than a year after his wife Toshi passed away As a tribute to the couple…
By now you’ve probably seen Metallica’s amazing ESPN commercial where the heavy metal gods loaf around the network’s offices offering up free guitar lessons and providing promo music for ESPN’s coverage of the PGA Senior Tour The clip was such a comedic goldmine that ESPN has now shared outtakes from…
Rock of real ambition and history can never just be about nostalgia For Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden the push forward continues decades after each band emerged from disparate underground rock scenes And now the pair have teamed for their first co-headlining tour which opened last night in Las Vegas at…
Another day another new and hilarious “Weird Al” Yankovic music video The Mandatory Fun release party continues with “Lame Claim to Fame” which takes aim at all the name-droppers as well as boasters of viral achievements (“I posted ‘First!’ in the comments of a YouTube video”) Inspired musically by Southern…
