Margo Price has releasedPerfectly Imperfect at the Ryman, a collection of highlights from her three-night stand at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium in the spring of 2018. The 11-track album includes guest appearances from Emmylou Harris (“Wild Women”), Jack White (the White Stripes’ “Honey, We Can’t Afford to Look This Cheap”), and …
Read More »Kathleen Edwards Left Behind Roots-Music Stardom to Sell Coffee. Now She's Back
It’d been six years since Kathleen Edwards had seriously thought about making music when she received an out-of-the-blue phone call from the manager of country star Maren Morris in 2017. For the previous three years, Edwards had been working 12-hour days at Quitters Coffee, the neighborhood cafe in suburban Ottawa …
Read More »Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams Celebrate His COVID-19 Recovery in Song
In March, guitarist and renowned sideman Larry Campbell (Bob Dylan, Levon Helm and many more) became one of many musicians to test positive for COVID-19. For about two weeks, he endured over-100-degree fever, headaches and loss of smell. As he told Rolling Stone after his fever had broken,“This thing has …
Read More »Melissa Etheridge's Son, Beckett Cypher, Dead at 21
Beckett Cypher, the son of Melissa Etheridge and her former partner, filmmaker Julie Cypher, has died. He was 21. Beckett’s death was related to opioid addiction, Etheridge said in a statement on Wednesday. “Today I joined the hundreds of thousands of families who have lost loved ones to opioid addiction,” …
Read More »Jason Isbell Will Play a Livestream Gig to Release His New Album
Jason Isbell will officially release his new album, Reunions, on Friday with a live performance from the Brooklyn Bowl in Nashville. The show, an acoustic livestream concert, will air free via fans.com at 8 p.m ET. Viewers are encouraged to make a donation in support of both Isbell’s crew and …
Read More »Pat Boone Remembers Little Richard: 'He Knew He Had to Be Different'
From his voice to his piano to his pompadoured-wildman aura, Little Richard became a star and unstoppable rock & roll train for many reasons. But one of those reasons – sometimes to the dismay of his fans – was Pat Boone. Boone, who was a year and a half younger …
Read More »Jason Isbell Talks Coronavirus' Effect on the Music Industry on 'The Daily Show'
Jason Isbell appeared on The Daily Show With Trevor Noah on Thursday night to discuss life in quarantine (he’s been playing guitar five hours a day), the state of the music industry (“It’s going to be bad”), and the gradual re-opening of Tennessee, just a week before the official release …
Read More »Lady Gaga Confirms New 'Chromatica' Release Date
Lady Gaga will now release her sixth LPChromatica on May 29th. The album was originally due to drop on April 10th. The Oscar- and Grammy-winning pop star made the announcement on social media, stating that “the journey continues.” She launched her new era back in late February with the release …
Read More »Flashback: Hear Tammy Wynette's Last Recorded Song 'In My Room'
Virginia Wynette Pugh was born 78 years ago Tuesday, on May 5th, 1942, at the home her grandfather built on land in tiny Tremont, Mississippi, close to the Alabama border. She would eventually be known as Tammy Wynette, one of the most influential female vocalists in the history of country …
Read More »RS Charts: Youngboy Never Broke Again Rides New Mixtape to Top of Artists 500 Chart
Youngboy Never Broke Again returned to the top of the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart for the week of April 24th through April 30th. The rapper is a streaming favorite and a regular presence in the top 10 of the chart, and he pulled in 129.5 million song streams this …
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