Buddy Guy joined Billy Cox and the Experience Hendrix Band for a rousing version of Jimi Hendrix‘s 12-bar blues classic “Red House” on Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! Guy, dressed in his signature black-and-white polka dot shirt, fired off squealing solos throughout the track. Cox – a former member of Hendrix’s …
Read More »Jason Boland and the Stragglers Plot New Album 'Hard Times Are Relative'
2018 is shaping up to be a year of milestones for Red Dirt country heroes Jason Boland and the Stragglers, marking the group’s 20th anniversary as well as a full decade since they joined the roster of Thirty Tigers. Boland and company will add to the celebration by releasing their …
Read More »See Dan Deacon in Talking Heads-Inspired Ed Schrader's Music Beat Video
Baltimore noise-rock duo, Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, released the gleeful new video for “Riddles,” the title track of their buzzy third album produced by electro-pop composer Dan Deacon. The Jay Buim-directed video opens like a Baltimore film noir. Beneath the glow of a streetlamp, singer Ed Schrader and bassist Devlin …
Read More »Malala Talks to David Letterman About Girls' Education, Fighting Extremism
Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai will appear on the next episode of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman. In honor of International Women’s Day, a preview clip shows the 20-year-old activist discussing gender equality with the late-night talk show legend. The clip opens with Letterman asking …
Read More »As Spotify Prepares to Go Public, Music Industry Divided on Royalties
Spotify‘s plan to go public, filed last week, could generate $23 billion and make the world’s biggest record labels hundreds of millions of dollars richer — but the Swedish streaming giant has yet to soothe grumbling and litigious artists and songwriters who say its royalty payments are unfairly low. “They …
Read More »Ashley Monroe Reveals 'Sparrow' Album Details
Ashley Monroe has unveiled details surrounding the April 20th release of her album, Sparrow, which was recorded with producer Dave Cobb in Nashville‘s historic RCA Studio A. See the track listing and songwriter credits below. Monroe, who re-teamed onstage with her Pistol Annies’ cohorts Miranda Lambert and Angaleena Presley last …
Read More »Rob Zombie Announces Giant Vinyl Box Set, New Live Album
Rob Zombie has announced a solo career-spanning vinyl box set complete with 11 albums including a new live LP. The limited edition Rob Zombie vinyl box set features all of the White Zombie singer’s solo studio and live LPs, from 1998’s Hellbilly Deluxe to 2016’s The Electric Warlock Acid Witch …
Read More »Pulse Nightclub Shooter: Widow Goes on Trial
Noor Zahi Salman has long claimed that she was unaware that her late husband, Omar Mateen, was plotting a shooting rampage at the gay nightclub Pulse in June 2016. That assertion will be put on trial starting Thursday. Salman, who lives in Fort Pierce, Florida, is the only person being …
Read More »10 Best Movies to See in March: 'Wrinkle in Time,' New Wes Anderson
Beware the Ides of March! Which, in cineplex terms, means an odd couple of releases set in different (but equally violent) eras of Russia; an outstanding Israeli film about grief; and not one, not two, but three sci-fi-inflected blockbusters. (Warning: Only one of them features Oprah.) Plus Wes Anderson makes …
Read More »Sheffield on 'Looming Tower': Hulu Drama on CIA v. FBI, 9/11 is Stunning
There’s a haunting moment early on in Hulu’s The Looming Tower – just another night in New York City, back in 1998. An FBI Special Agent watches a TV interview with a terrorist practically nobody in America has heard of before, a guy named Osama bin Laden. The interview includes …
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