With “Sangria” climbing its way to the top of the country charts in mid-July, Blake Shelton now has 20Â Number One singles to his name. Fifteen of those are consecutive chart-toppers, a record-setting streak that began in March 2010 with “Hillbilly Bone.” To celebrate, Shelton is rounding up his biggest songs… Source: Music News
Luke Bryan: The Rolling Stone Country Interview
Luke Bryan can’t stop fiddling with his hat. “I just got a haircut and the sumbitch still doesn’t fit,” he says, struggling to get the fresh-out-of-the-box cap, part of his 32 Bridge line for outdoor outfitters Cabela’s, shaped just right. Riding in an SUV in Nashville, Bryan, country’s most popular —… Source: Music News
Drive-By Truckers to Release Career-Spanning Live Album
Drive-By Truckers will release a comprehensive live album this fall, just before celebrating 20 years together as a band. Titled It’s Great to Be Alive, the project will be available in both deluxe and single-record versions, on CD, vinyl and digital. The full deluxe record will feature an expansive, 35 song… Source: […]
Flashback: Robert Plant Reluctantly Sings 'Stairway' at 1988 Zeppelin Reunion
The night before Led Zeppelin were scheduled to play a brief reunion set at Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary show at Madison Square Garden in 1988, Robert Plant called up Jimmy Page with some news: He wasn’t going to sing “Stairway to Heaven.” “Well, that was awful,” Page said years later. “I said, ‘What… Source: Music News
Watch St. Vincent Ramble Through Texas, Warble National Anthem
St. Vincent’s Annie Clark returned to her hometown of Marfa, Texas where she discussed the cocktail of kinetic energy and fear that drove her towards music, as well as the high stakes that keep pushing her as a performer, in a short documentary for Nowness directed by Alan Del Rio Ortiz. Ortiz, who has been… Source: Music […]
Garth Brooks' 'Friends in Low Places' Remake Hits Roadblock
“This is 100 percent my fault,” Garth Brooks admits to Billboard of a barricade to his plans for a 25th anniversary reissue of his groundbreaking No Fences album. The project, which was tentatively set for release in November, was to include remixed and remastered versions of all 10 tracks, plus… Source: Music News
See Iconic David Bowie Photos From Ziggy Stardust Era
From 1972 to 1973, Mick Rock served as David Bowie’s official photographer, capturing the rocker as he rose to fame via his otherworldly alter-ego Ziggy Stardust. Rock’s tour of duty resulted in numerous famous — and not so famous — pictures, many of which have been collected in a new numbered limited-edition photo book,… Source: Music News
Shooting for Stardust: Mick Rock on Photographing Bowie
British photographer Mick Rock has impeccable instincts, not to mention a perfect sense of timing. In the early Seventies, while working at the offices of Oz magazine in London, Rock came across a promo copy of a record titled Hunky Dory by a still-relative newcomer named David Bowie. That encounter… Source: Music News
Life Is Beachy: Inside Tropical House, EDM's Sound of the Summer
The song of the summer wasn’t rap, R&B or pop — for what was the first time ever, it was throbbingly, unapologetically house music. “Cheerleader” the reggae-lite song by the singer OMI, reached global ubiquity via a remix from young German producer Felix Jaehn, hitting the Number One spot on… Source: Music News
Meet Ansolo, Actor Ansel Elgort's DJ Alter-Ego
At just 21 years old, Ansel Elgort attended his fourth Electric Zoo during Labor Day weekend. For the second year in a row, the actor — who has built an impressive career as a leading man in teen blockbusters like The Fault in Our Stars and the Divergent series — played an early afternoon set… Source: Music News
