On Monday morning, Maren Morris woke up to 50 text messages from friends and family. Two nights after Morris had performed on the main stage at Las Vegas‘ Route 91 Harvest Festival, loved ones were frantically trying to reach her: Did she make it home OK? Was everyone she knew …
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To Lou Reed, the legendarily cranky singer-songwriter, Rolling Stone contributing editor Anthony DeCurtis was a true rarity: a music journalist that Reed actually liked. The pair encountered each other many times over DeCurtis’ decades as a writer and editor, and after Reed’s death in 2013, DeCurtis turned his admiration for …
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Charles Bradley, the acclaimed soul singer and exuberant live performer who saw his career ascend late in life, died Saturday following a bout with stomach and liver cancer. He was 68. “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Charles Bradley,” the singer’s rep said in …
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“Why is there a football game before the Lady Gaga show?” A friend of the singer poses this question near the end of the new Netflix documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two, just as Lady Gaga finishes the nail-bitingly intense preparations for her Super Bowl performance. It’s one of many up-close-and-personal …
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Foo Fightersroared through old hits with James Corden during their surprise installment of “Carpool Karaoke.” The entire band squeezed into Corden’s car forTheLate Late Show sing-along segment, which culminated with a three-way drum-off at Guitar Center. Corden and Grohl belted emphatically from the opening moments of Foo Fighters‘ “All My …
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Jah bless Richard Starkey, rock’s mischievously minimalist id and Eternal-Optimist Emeritus, creative instincts forever stripping things back to their playfully swinging 4/4 peace’n’love-loving core. His umpteenth solo set is a well-timed all-star candygram. Paul McCartney kicks in basslines and Beatles screams on the hilarious war cry “We’re on the Road …
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Sitting in a house in Palm Springs, California with Waylon Payne and Adam Wright, the writers with whom she penned the recently debuted “All the Trouble,” Lee Ann Womack and the pair set their collective imaginative gaze two hours west toward Tinseltown, conjuring the moody and mournful tune, “Hollywood.” The …
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The biggest hits from the legendary Stax Records – including classics from Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, the Staple Singers and Isaac Hayes – will feature on the upcoming three-disc set Soulsville U.S.A.: A Celebration of Stax, the latest installment of Stax’s yearlong celebration of its 60th anniversary. Soulsville U.S.A.carries …
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Sinead O’Connor will address the most recent bout of headlines pertaining to her mental health on the season premiere of Dr. Phil. In a preview of the episode, O’Connor looks solemn as she declares to the talk show host that she is “fed up of being defined as the crazy …
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Wade Bowen has been popping up a lot this year for his stellar interpretations of other artists’ work, country and otherwise. His latest video from his in-home Garage Mahal cover song series pays tribute to his peer Jason Isbell with a version of the 2015 recording “Flagship.” Bowen begins the …
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