Rascal Flatts return with a lilting song of devotion in “Back to Life,” a new single that follows the trio’s most recent studio album, Back to Us. Penned by Cary Barlowe, Niko Moon, Shay Mooney (of Dan + Shay) and Fred Wilhelm, “Back to Life” glides on a gently swinging …
Read More »'The Voice': See Competitor's Impressive Bruno Mars Cover in Blind Audition
Night two of Blind Auditions on The Voice Season 15 is in the books, with Tuesday’s September 25th episode showcasing a real life soul-pop survivor. Houston’s DeAndre Nico earned a resounding four-chair turn from coaches Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson and Adam Levine, a rare feat achieved by his …
Read More »Texas Songwriter Charlie Robison Says He Can No Longer Sing
Red Dirt singer-songwriter Charlie Robison has announced his retirement from performing, citing complications from surgery earlier this year via a post on his Facebook page Monday night. “[A]t the beginning of this year I underwent a surgical procedure that because of complications left me with the permanent inability to sing. …
Read More »Brandi Carlile, Lilly Hiatt Rescue Rain-Soaked 2018 Pilgrimage Festival
As fans sang along to Dawes’ anthemic heartstring-tuggers “When My Time Comes” and “All Your Favorite Bands” — the big finish of the band’s main-stage set late Saturday afternoon —they were blissfully unaware that it was the de facto finale to this year’s Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival, which was …
Read More »Questlove on Bruce Springsteen's 'Brilliant Disguise'
I purchasedTunnel of Lovewhen I was 16. I know that for most people, especially bandwagon critics, that album might have been seen as a letdown, because it had to follow the massive eclipse ofBorn in the U.S.A.But I’ve always felt it got shafted. It’s his divorce album, and I love …
Read More »Eric Church to Play Back-to-Back Shows on 2019 Double Down Tour
Eric Church will play twice the shows on his newly announced Double Down Tour, which gets underway January 18th and follows the October release of his new album Desperate Man. Church has steadily elevated his touring game to become one of live music’s biggest draws, playing marathon two-set shows with …
Read More »Bob Dylan Plots Massive 'Blood On The Tracks' Reissue for Latest 'Bootleg Series'
Blood on the Tracks has always been one of Bob Dylan‘s most mysterious albums, but the upcoming Bootleg Series More Blood, More Tracks,set for releaseNovember 2nd, will finally reveal, piece-by-piece, how the 1975 LP came together over just six days at studios in New York City and Minneapolis, Minnesota. A …
Read More »Mike Campbell on the Heartbreakers: 'We'll Play Again Someday'
In the immediate aftermath of Tom Petty’s sudden death last October, guitarist Mike Campbell believed that the Heartbreakers would never perform together again. “I just couldn’t think about doing that,” he tells Rolling Stone. “I thought it would just be too sad since we’d be missing our other brother.” But …
Read More »Flashback: Metallica and Ja Rule Embark on a Rap-Rock Collab
The Judgment Night soundtrack, a 1993 experiment teaming rappers and rock bands, turned 25 last week, and we celebrated with an oral history featuring many of its many key players In one of the soundtrack’s more interesting coulda-beens, executive producer Happy Walters told us that he was rejected by Metallica, …
Read More »Pearl Jam's Best Bootlegs: The Ultimate Guide
Most major rock acts go on tour and play the same exact set every night, sometimes even repeating their stage banter verbatim like they’re reading from a script. Pearl Jam have always taken a different path. Their setlist is like the complete Pearl Jam catalog on shuffle where any song …
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