There is – even at this juncture in my game – a first time for everything. On the gloriously sunny morning of August 1st, I walked through a stone tunnel at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island, into my first Newport Jazz Festival. I was a day late…. Source: Music News

Legendary country producer and songwriter Billy Sherrill — best known for his work with Tammy Wynette and George Jones — has died in Nashville after a short illness. He was 78. Sherrill’s contributions to country music were massively influential. One of the primary forces behind the “countrypolitan” sound which smoothed country’s… Source: Music News

Chuck D walks through the halls of hell amidst a barrage of chaotic images in the entrancing, harrowing new video for Public Enemy’s “No Sympathy From the Devil.” The latest clip off the seminal hip-hop outfit’s 13th LP, Man Plans, God Laughs, opens with the camera traveling down a dimly lit hallway… Source: Music […]

Merle Haggard has changed his stance on pot smoking since his “Okie From Muskogee” days. The former anti-hippy and right wing hero is now putting the bake back in Bakersfield with Willie Nelson on their recent collaboration, “It’s All Gone to Pot.” “At the time I wrote ‘Okie From Muskogee,’ I didn’t… Source: Music […]

Pharrell Williams will face protests during his South African tour next months from a pro-Palestinian group that opposes his partnership with Woolworths, a major retailer in the country that has trade ties with Israel, Reuters reports. The South African branch of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel (BDS) — a movement opposed to the… Source: Music […]

The very early 1980s was a scary and confusing times for many rock gods of the previous decade. This new thing called MTV was turning oddball British acts like Kajagoogoo, Adam Ant, Culture Club and Haircut 100 into overnight stars, and 1970s stadium rock giants like the Who, the Eagles,… Source: Music News

A publicist, a label rep and Alessia Cara are huddled around a smartphone in the Victorian lobby of Cara’s midtown hotel, watching a video on Twitter. It’s a short clip of Jimmy Fallon introducing the 19-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter’s performance on The Tonight Show the previous night, her TV debut. Fallon is poking… Source: Music News

Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus helped make the West Hollywood House of Blues’ final show even more explosive when they joined glam metal jokesters Steel Panther for a cover of Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me.” The father/daughter pair attended the historic venue’s farewell show, which was livestreamed on Yahoo…. Source: Music […]

Noel Gallagher bemoaned the state of the album in the age of streaming and blasted Apple Music’s 24/7 Internet radio, Beats 1, during an interview on the Varvet International podcast, saying, “Apple Music, world radio, is that some sort of George Orwell shit going on? “How can you be so arrogant that you can… Source: Music News

Randy Houser continues to kick up quite a bit of dust with his latest video for the turbo-charged new single, “We Went.” The Southwestern-themed clip revisits the mini-movie style and scenery of Houser’s video for his Top Five hit, “Like a Cowboy.” With director Dustin Rikert once again behind the camera,… Source: Music […]