Louisville, Kentucky, already home to the eclectic Forecastle Festival, will play host to a new all-country festival dubbed Hometown Rising. Set for September 14th and 15th, the weekend event also highlights the region’s signature bourbons via tastings and workshops with distilleries like Old Forester, Four Roses and Evan Williams. Tim …

Coheed and Cambria and Mastodon will coheadline a spring and summer tour, dubbed the Unheavenly Skye Tour, which features a unique twist for fans of the latter band. Where Coheed and Cambria will be supporting their new album, Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures, Mastodon will be playing their …

Midway into the 2019 Grammy Awards, the show’s host, Alicia Keys, sang a medley of songs that she wished she’d written. She kicked it off by playing Scott Joplin’s “The Maple Leaf Rag” on two grand pianos, one black, one white, sitting between them on a stool. “I wanna welcome …

On Valentine’s Day 2018, a 19-year-old ex-student took an Uber to his old high school; he walked across the campus and into a three-story building, where he killed 17 people and injured 17 more. It was the sixth of 24 shootings in U.S. schools last year, but the incident at …

Dolly Parton became the first-ever country artist feted at the annual MusiCares “Person of the Year” dinner Friday night. It was a full evening of tributes, duets and at least one surprise reunion of friends: the hit-making trio of Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt. Ronstadt’s public appearances have been …

Alt-rock stalwarts 311 offer an inside look at their lives on the road, on stage and at home in the trailer for their upcoming documentary, Enlarged to Show Detail 3, which will fittingly screen in theaters for one night only on March 11th (3/11). The clip features interviews with the …

J.S. Ondara can trace his entire career back to a bad bet. As a teenager in Nairobi, Kenya, Ondara once swore to a friend that “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” was written by his favorite band, Guns N’ Roses, and not by someone named Bob Dylan. “What are you talking about?” …

Spotify‘s fourth quarter of 2018 saw the10-year-old Swedish music-streaming company posting an operating profit for the first time, adding 9 million premium subscribers, expanding into 13 new markets and positioning itself to be something much bigger than just a music service. The company posted its fourth-quarter earnings (pdf) before the …

Black Leopard, Red Wolf 620 pages Riverhead Books They call him Tracker, a “hunter known by no other name” who, for the right price, will find anyone you need found. His reputation as a pitiless, brutal man proceeds him; his nose, it’s been whispered, would put a dozen bloodhounds to …

Maroon 5 delivered a surprise-free set with a plethora of career-spanning hits including “This Love,” “Girls Like You,” “Sugar” and “Moves Like Jagger” during theSuper Bowl LIII Halftime Show. The Red Pill Blues band kicked off the show with singer Adam Levine leading a melodic performance of the Songs About …