Lucinda Williams had been knocking around the music business for two decades by the time she released Car Wheels on a Gravel Road in the summer of 1998. By that point she had released four other solo albums, but she was still best known as the writer behind the Mary …
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Pistol Annies — the trio of singer-songwriters Miranda Lambert, Angaleena Presley and Ashley Monroe — won huge critical praise for their 2013 LP Annie Up, a wry collection of songs about drinking and divorce. But the album was released during a critical shift in country jump-started by the record-breaking success …
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Draco Rosa’s first studio album in five years opens in some confusion, salted with dark humor. The singer is one of the biggest and most notorious stars in modern Latin music. But when he walks into “Hotel de los Encuentros,” he gets the cold shoulder at the registration desk. The …
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When Dave Grohl filmed the Nashville episode of his HBO music docuseries Sonic Highways, he spent time talking swamp rock with gravelly-voiced singer-guitarist Tony Joe White. The Louisiana native, who died Wednesday at 75, went on to jam with Grohl and the Foo Fighters a few times afterward, including a …
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Geddy Lee recently spoke to Rolling Stone’s Ryan Reed about the new reissue of Rush‘s 1978 LP Hemispheres, and at the end he casually mentioned that the band may find a way to continue on after Neil Peart‘s retirement. “I would say there’s no chance of seeing Rush on tour …
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Listen to this week’sYouTube Music Playlist here Shawn Mendes featuring Teddy<3, “Under Pressure” Sounds like: A heartfelt tribute to two great artists Perfect for: Gearing up for theBohemian Rhapsody movie Allow Shawn Mendes and Teddy Geiger to get you in the spirit for the upcoming Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody with …
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In the mid Nineties, Trent Reznor was rock’s preeminent enfant terrible – a figure in black who covered himself in mud, sang “I wanna fuck you like an animal” and midwifed Marilyn Manson into the world. A quarter of a century later, he’s an Oscar-winning film composer and a dad …
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Twenty-five years ago this month Meat Loaf pulled off perhaps the most stunning comeback in rock history when Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell became the Number One album in the country. He’d been almost completely off the cultural radar since his Bat Out of Hell follow-up Dead …
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It borrows the title of a celebratory song sung around the world on a daily basis, but Kelleigh Bannen‘s “Happy Birthday,” as depicted in the Nashville native’s melancholic new video, isn’t aiming to get the party started. Penned by Bannen with Claire Douglas and Dallas Wilson, “Happy Birthday” is a …
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Justin Moore raises a glass to fallen soldiers in his heartfelt new single “The Ones That Didn’t Make It Back Home,” his first new music in two years. Co-written by Moore, Paul DiGiovanni, Chase McGill, and Jeremy Stover — who co-produced the track with Big Machine Label Group President Scott …
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