The version of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” that appears in the concert film Roger Waters The Wall finds the group’s former singer-songwriter dramatically reinterpreting the song’s lyrics while singer Robbie Wyckoff handles the parts originally sung by David Gilmour. The track, which runs about a minute longer than the original… Source: Music News

This fall marks the 45th anniversary of Janis Joplin’s death from an overdose in a Hollywood hotel room. Since then, she’s been the subject of books, reissues, a boxed set, an off-Broadway show, and a still-in-development biopic, possibly starring Amy Adams. Everyone from Kim Gordon to Pink has given Joplin… Source: Music News

HBO has released a new trailer for their upcoming show Vinyl, a gritty, go-for-broke look at the music industry from executive producers Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger. While the initial footage released last month teased a world of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, this second glimpse at the star-studded drama… Source: Music News

While Las Vegas often sends its visitors away begging for mercy (or a loan), country artists like Rascal Flatts can’t seem to stay away for long. Recently, the country trio of Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney announced a second run of nine dates for its Las Vegas residency, now… Source: Music […]

Georgia alt-metal band Baroness have previewed another intoxicatingly tough new single from their forthcoming album Purple. The dark “Shock Me” follows up the album’s lead single, “Chlorine and Whine.” The new track moves more swiftly and aggressively than the sprawling “Chlorine and Whine.” “Good fortune never was shining on me the… Source: Music […]

Weezer have followed up their gluttonous, cannoli-overloaded lyric video for new single “Thank God for Girls” with a proper music video that appropriately takes Weezer fans to church. In the Scantron-directed video, frontman Rivers Cuomo plays a sleazy evangelist who takes his congregation’s donations to a backroom poker game. After losing all their… Source: Music […]

In a preview of her Sunday appearance on 60 Minutes, Adele’s song “When We Were Young” is played in a clip from an exclusive performance on the show. The singer’s live recording of the track takes place in the last half of the clip. Adele and Tobias Jesso Jr. co-wrote “When… Source: Music […]

The Dixie Chicks have revealed the dates for a 2016 tour that will take them all across the U.S. next summer. Following their previously announced European trek, the DCX MMXVI World Tour will kick off June 1st at the Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.The multi-award-winning trio will visit more… Source: Music News

No single person “invented” rock & roll. But it’s hard to imagine how it could’ve happened without Sun Records visionary Sam Phillips. Peter Guralnick’s rigorously researched Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll tells the story of a Southern white businessman who enabled the careers of epochal artists, black… Source: Music News

Ty Dolla $ign emerged in 2010 as the writer and hook-smith on “Toot It and Boot It,” a gleeful track by the rapper YG. The song demonstrated Ty’s musical chops — he managed to transform a sample of the Association’s Sixties sunshine pop into modern G-Funk — and introduced the world… Source: Music News