The fourth annual Outlaw Country Cruise set sail this week from Tampa for the Bahamas, but for the 2,500 or so rabid fans onboard, the Norwegian Pearl could have just circled Tampa Bay — these folks were here for the tunes. Presented by cruise promoter Sixthman in conjunction with SiriusXM’s …
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“Back then, I just wanted to write songs I could be proud of and be able to play in five years,” Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong told Rolling Stone in 2014 of his mindset two decades prior. He would of course achieve that and a whole lot more. In 1994, …
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Matt Shultz could make it through only one take. The lead singer of the Kentucky rock band Cage the Elephant was recently in the studio recording “Goodbye,” a John Lennon-inspired ballad Shultz wrote for his wife as their seven-year relationship was ending. Shultz delivered it lying on the studio floor. …
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Craig Finn, frontman of the Hold Steady, detailed his forthcoming solo album,I Need a New War, which will be released this Spring on Partisan Records. The album is the third in a trilogy of solo records that began with 2015’sFaith in the Futureand continued with 2017’sWe All The Want Same …
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The government shutdown may be over, but its effects are still being felt — and Southern rockers Blackberry Smoke, in their own small way, are here to help, with the offer of free admission to upcoming shows for federal employees. The Atlanta, Georgia, quintet are already well into their 2019 …
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Earlier this month, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam granted clemency to Cyntoia Brown, who was serving a 51-year sentence for felony murder. Fourteen years ago, a teenaged Brown was prosecuted in Tennessee for shooting and killing a 43-year-old man who had solicited the 16-year-old Brown for sex in 2004. She said …
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Less than two weeks after Dead & Company conclude their summer tour, John Mayer will embark on a solo U.S. trek. The 27-date North American leg begins July 19th in Albany, New York and concludes September 13th and 14th with a two-night stand at Inglewood, California’s the Forum. Tickets for …
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You’d think a song that is everywhere on the Internet — exploding on music charts, racking up billions of streams and downloads and YouTube plays, and even making it into the celebrity zeitgeist as it did this week on Cardi B’s Instagram — would be making its creator filthy rich. …
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Two months ago, shortly after the conclusion of their European tour, Counting Crows entered London’s AIR studios and recorded “August and Everything After” with the London Studio Orchestra. That doesn’t mean they played their 1993 debut LP of the same name, but rather an outtake from the sessions that gave …
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When Joy Williams sat down to work on material for her new album, she had a bit of an epiphany. “I remember saying, whatever this project is, if I can’t play it on a front porch, it’s probably not for me,” Williams told Rolling Stone this past April. With the …
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