When the Zombies sang “This Will Be Our Year” in 1967, they were selling themselves short — they’re still going nearly 50 years after their eerily psychedelic U.K. chamber-pop elegy Odessey and Oracle fused Pet Sounds and Sgt. Pepper into a lost classic. The Zombies have long since shed their pristine Sixties style; on their first album… Source: Music News
Emma Stone Delivers Madcap Dance in Will Butler's 'Anna'
Emma Stone dances through the famed Queen Mary ship in the beautifully stylized clip for Will Butler’s “Anna,” the second single off the Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist’s debut solo LP, Policy. Directed by Brantley Gutierrez and choreographed by Ryan Heffington (who handled the dancing in Sia’s “Chandelier,” and the recent reboot of Paul… Source: Music […]
Taylor Swift's New Conflict Resolution Plan: Texting
Taylor Swift will resolve her celebrity feuds through texts, not Twitter, in the future after misconstruing a tweet from Nicki Minaj about this year’s MTV Video Music Awards nominations, NME reports. While Swift was reluctant to go into detail about the incident in a cover story for the British music magazine, she said:… Source: Music News
Blake Shelton Announces 2016 Winter Tour Dates
Blake Shelton will hit the road next February, launching a short tour to help drum up buzz for a new album and to promote his upcoming hits collection. Kicking off February 18th at Cincinnati’s U.S. Bank Arena, the month-long trek will take Shelton across the midwest, northeast and Tennessee, with… Source: Music News
Hear R. City Pine for a Lover in Breezy New Song, 'Again'
After years of writing and producing Top 40 hits for everyone from Rihanna to Miley Cyrus, hip-hop and reggae fusion duo R. City got some chart love of their own with the the Adam Levine-assisted Top 10 smash “Locked Away.” R. City’s breezy new follow-up, “Again,” shows they may have another hit on their hands. The… Source: Music […]
Brad Paisley on CMA Awards Joke Writing: "God Bless the Ashley Madison Hack"
On November 4th, the CMA Awards return to Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, with Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood returning as co-hosts for the eighth consecutive year. Tuesday evening, a few hours before they performed with Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris and Paul Simon at New York’s All for the Hall guitar pull,… Source: Music News
Sammy Hagar: 'If I Joined Van Halen Right Now, I'd Feel Like a Hypocrite'
Last week we got Sammy Hagar on the phone to talk about his new cookbook and his upcoming plans for Chickenfoot and the Circle, but we’d be highly negligent if we let him go without getting into the endless Van Halen saga yet again. We also got his take on Donald Trump… Source: Music News
Deadmau5, Nas, Run the Jewels to Thrash Winter X Games Stage
Deadmau5, Nas and Run the Jewels lead the musical lineup for the 2016 Winter X Games, set to take place January 28th through 31st at Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colorado. Nas and Run the Jewels will kick off the X Games’ official concert series on January 28th at 8 p.m., while the rest of… Source: Music […]
Ann Wilson on New Solo EP, Americana Love and 40 Years of Heart
When compiling her short but satisfying new EP of cover songs, already available on iTunes but released physically this Friday, October 9th, on Rounder Records, Ann Wilson had one rule: each track had to move the famously powerful lead vocalist of Heart. “All the songs had to be songs where the… Source: Music News
Roger Waters Announces 'The Wall' Live Soundtrack Album
Now that Roger Waters has released his new concert film of The Wall, filmed on the former Pink Floyd singer-songwriter’s recent world tour, he is putting out an accompanying soundtrack album. Between 2010 and 2013, the singer performed the 1979 double-album, home to “Comfortably Numb” and “Another Brick in the… Source: Music News
