So far it’s been an incredibly eventful first radio tour for Maddie & Tae Their bus driver made an overly ambitious attempt to clear a bridge instead grinding the roof against the structure which produced a horrible near-apocalyptic racket and sent everybody ducking for cover Miranda Lambert Gives a Woman’s Take…
Four decades after writing “Coat of Many Colors” Dolly Parton is showing some more love for the rainbow On a conference call last week the country icon spoke about an unreleased track called “Just a Wee Bit Gay” which is reportedly part of a larger group of songs that are…
When Illmatic Nas’ seminal 1994 debut was reissued in April for the album’s 20th anniversary hip-hop fans were treated to countless retrospective reviews a documentary on the film a performance by the 40-piece National Symphony Orchestra and extensive interviews with the rapper himself There was seemingly little left for fans to want and little…
R Kelly will bring his musical talents to the world of house music telling a crowd at the Chosen Few DJs Picnic in Chicago that he was at work on a new album inspired by the music created in his hometown in the late 1970s NME reports Watch R Kelly Improvise…
Months before the release of his second album Kip Moore is waging a battle with ticket scalpers many of whom have been buying tickets to the country singer’s headlining tour — which launches on September 25 following his summertime dates with Tim McGraw — and selling them at a significant…
Much like Red Headed Stranger the 1975 masterpiece by Willie Nelson the 2014 solo debut of Pistol Annies’ Angaleena Presley American Middle Class is a concept album But instead of telling the fictional story of a fugitive on the lam Presley’s album details the true adventures of a Kentucky coal…
Arcade Fire and Drake are among the 10 acts with albums shortlisted for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize the prestigious award given each year to the artist behind the Canadian Album of the Year The Unforgettable Fire Can Arcade Fire Be the World’s Biggest Band? Joining Arcade Fire’s Reflektor and Drake’s Nothing…
If you turn Maggie Rose’s new single “Girl in Your Truck Song” into a drinking game — taking a swig every time she name-checks a so-called “bro country” song — you’ll likely be pretty buzzed by the end of the first chorus Readers’ Poll The 10 Best Songs of 2014 So…
“I missed the Eighties” Jack Antonoff told us backstage before his band Bleachers’ gig at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas “because I wasn’t really conscious” (he was born in 1984) So the Nineties became the defining musical experience of his youth “[It was] a great time because you’d walk down the…
Hard as it may be to imagine but there are certain things in this world more grating and ubiquitous than Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” Persistent spelling and grammar errors Fittingly “Weird Al” Yankovic has combined the two in “Word Crimes” a send-up of Thicke’s 2013 hit that promotes proper punctuation and…
