Chris Young has released a video to “Raised on Country,” his nostalgic Merle- and Willie-name-checking single released earlier this year. The throwback video features the Grand Ole Opry member performing the song within the sparse vocal booth of the legendary country music radio station WSM as he pays tribute to …
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Graham Nash will play a series of special shows in September that will feature complete performances of his 1971 debut solo LP Songs For Beginners and the 1974 follow-up Wild Tales. “People have been suggesting I do this it a long time,” Nash tells Rolling Stone. “But it was pressure …
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Normani brought a serious sense of cool to the stage at The Tonight Show with a polished performance of her single “Waves.” The former Fifth Harmony singer, dressed in a sultry black crop top and skirt, got some help from a group of dancers as well as rapper 6LACK, who …
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Red Hot Chili Peppers will live stream their performance at Egypt’s famed pyramids in Giza. The show will be broadcast via the band’s official YouTube page as well as on Twitter and Facebook, beginning at 2 p.m. ET on Friday. “Before each new place my body tingled with excitement, a …
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As announced back in January, the D.C. post-hardcore band Jawbox will set out on their first tour in more than 20 years this summer. Consisting of 16 shows in June and July, the group’s An Impartial Overview run will see them visiting 12 U.S. cities, some for two nights. Ahead …
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Hitmakers TLC, Nelly and Flo Rida will team up this summer for a five-week co-headlining U.S. trek. The extensive tour of America’s amphitheaters begins July 23rd in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and runs through August 31st in Irvine, California. “Fans can expect an incredible, non-stop party with each artist delivering hit after …
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Filter‘s concert in El Paso, Texas was canceled by the venue after the band posted an anti-Trump joke on their Facebook post advertising the gig. The venue also warned the band against using an upside-down American flag as part of their video display. The band was scheduled to perform at …
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Pop radio program directors, the men and women whose decisions govern the casual consumption of 100 million listeners every week, are currently buried under an avalanche of Ariana Grande songs. “I’ve got three currents and another two in recurrent [rotation],” says Nathan Graham, program director for the Philadelphia Top 40 …
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The letter that the House Committee on Oversight and Reform sent to Georgia’s new governor dated March 6th had a quite a few footnotes. All of them, save one, cited a media report covering various problems with voting in Georgia during this last election season: voter purges and suspensions, malfunctioning …
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The Who’s Pete Townshend, the creator of rock operas like Tommy and Quadrophenia, has penned his first “rock novel.” The Age of Anxiety, due out November 5th, is an “extended meditation on manic genius and the dark art of creativity,” the novel’s publishers Hachette Books and Coronet announced Tuesday. The …
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