Demi Lovato’s fifth studio LP is the album she was born to make: a brassy, sleek, dynamic pop production that lets her powerful voice soar to new emotional highs. It kicks off with the fast and furious title track, a bright jolt of energy that sounds like a video game… Source: Music News
Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings
This powerful collection – a companion to the HBO documentary Montage of Heck – plays like Kurt Cobain’s phantom memoir. Director Brett Morgen went through 200 hours of cassette tapes to find these song sketches and demos. Some of the 31 tracks will resonate only with deep Nirvana scholars, and… Source: Music News
Kelsea Ballerini Scores 'Rising Star' Award
In 2014, Kelsea Ballerini attended the CMA Awards as a fan. At the 2015 show on November 4th, she walked the red carpet as a double nominee. Though she didn’t collect any CMA hardware that night, the Knoxville, Tennessee, native’s meteoric rise this year certainly hasn’t gone unnoticed. Billboard recently announced… Source: […]
Hailee Steinfeld on Working With Max Martin, Following Up ‘Love Myself’
At 18 years old, Hailee Steinfeld already has a few blockbuster films and an Oscar nomination under her belt. As of this summer, she can add a pop hit to that list, thanks to the success of her catchy, empowering “Love Myself.” On November 13th, the singer and actress, who… Source: Music News
Ex-Motorhead Drummer Phil Taylor Dead at 61
Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor, who played drums on Motörhead’s iconic early catalog, has died. Guitarist “Fast” Eddie Clarke, who played in the same lineup with Taylor, announced the news on Facebook, claiming the drummer had been suffering from an unspecified illness “for some time.” Taylor was 61. “My dear friend and… Source: Music News
See Laura Cantrell's Bewitching 'Can't Wait' Video
Laura Cantrell’s clear-as-a-bell vocals aren’t the only magic at work in her latest video for “Can’t Wait,” one of the standout tracks from the Nashville-born singer’s spellbinding 2014 LP, No Way There From Here. Since her 2000 debut, Not the Trembling Kind, Cantrell has confidently walked the line between classic… Source: Music News
Watch Pearl Jam Cover Pink Floyd's 'Comfortably Numb' in Brazil
Pearl Jam opened up the second encore of a sprawling, rain-soaked set in Porto Alegre, Brazil Wednesday with a cover of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb,” Spin reports. The faithful fan-shot performance of the beloved Wall cut shows the band steadily moving through the slow-burning “Comfortably Numb,” with frontman Eddie Vedder spinning Roger Waters’ aching vocals with some of… Source: Music […]
Chic's Nile Rodgers: Five Crucial Inspirations
Nile Rodgers boasts one of the most impressive résumés in pop, having produced David Bowie, Diana Ross and Madonna in his Eighties heyday. Lately, the guitarist and producer has been on a fresh tear, working on a new Chic album — which he calls “the most self-indulgent thing I’ve ever done” — staging his own all-star festival,… Source: Music News
Hear Pusha T's Notorious B.I.G. Riff 'Untouchable'
Pusha T debuted a quivering new Timbaland-produced tune, “Untouchable,” via the G.O.O.D. Music website in a way that required fans to hold their mouse down on an image of three doves flying if they wanted to hear the song in full. Now, the song is available in a more user-friendly… Source: Music News
Bootleg of the Week: The Who Live in Chicago 11/12/99
Virtually nobody disputes the notion that the Who were never quite the same after Keith Moon died in 1978. Not only did Faces drummer Kenny Jones take his place behind the kit the following year, but the group also added keyboardist John “Rabbit” Bundrick and a three-piece horn section to… Source: Music News
