Las Vegas is betting on country music upping the ante with superstar talent for Sin City’s first-ever country festival Route 91 Harvest a three-day event set for the Lot across from Luxor Hotel & Casino will take place October 3-5 and will feature Miranda Lambert Blake Shelton Dierks Bentley Jason…
Kenny Chesney may not be touring this summer choosing to press “pause” on his annual stadium treks while he finishes up his new album The Big Revival but that hasn’t stopped him from scheduling one special show On August 16th the “American Kids” singer will head south from Nashville to…
Major established pop stars dominate the nominations for the MTV Video Music Awards this year with a few artists who broke out in the past year like Iggy Azalea Miley Cyrus and Sam Smith getting recognized in major categories The awards ceremony will be broadcast live from the Forum in…
Following accusations by Israeli media that his recent onstage anti-war rant was anti-Israel Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder took to the band’s website to write that “I’d rather be naïve heartfelt and hopeful than resigned to say nothing for fear of misinterpretation and retribution” 15 Insanely Great Pearl Jam Songs Only…
Fleetwood Mac’s 1987 world tour should have been a triumphant victory lap The group was one of the few mega bands of the 1970s that continued to thrive in the MTV era and their newest album Tango in the Night produced the huge singles “Big Love” “Seven Wonders” and “Little…
It’s been 16 years since Busta Rhymes released his third album ELE (Extinction Level Event) The Final World Front spawning some of his biggest hits including the Bernard Herrmann-sampling “Gimme Some More” and Janet Jackson-assisted “What’s It Gonna Be?!” For his upcoming 10th album though the rapper returns to the contributors and post-apocalyptic themes…
Johnny Winter the Texas blues guitarist who added his own unique current of electricity to songs like “Highway 61 Revisited” “Johnny B Goode” and “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” in the late Sixties and throughout the Seventies died Wednesday in his hotel room in Zurich according to his publicist He had been…
Upwards of 700 independent record labels worldwide – including Beggars Group Epitaph and Sub Pop among others – have joined together to sign a “Fair Digital Deals Declaration” which calls for evenhanded accounting for the labels’ artists with regard to digital sales and streaming YouTube’s Billion-Dollar Payout Provides New Revenue for…
Slow sales continue but at least they’re consistent — tracks are down 13 percent and albums are down 15 percent numbers that have held steady for weeks Here’s a new one though according to Billboard This week’s overall sales of 41 million represent the lowest number since SoundScan began tallying…
John Hiatt learned the most important lesson in writing music at the age of 11 “never alter anything” He tells the Guardian that after crafting his first song “Beth Ann” about the blossoming girl in his sixth grade Catholic school class a friend convinced the future music legend to swap…
