Following Hamilton’s performance and win at the 2016 Grammy awards, the show’s creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda is curating a star-studded collection of remixes and covers of the Broadway musical’s songs. The Hamilton Mixtape will be out later this year. Miranda detailed the project during a recent interview with Vanity Fair… Source: RollingStone Link: Chance […]

Appetite For Destruction had been in record stores for three months when Guns N’ Roses came to New York City in October of 1987, but the group had yet to truly take off. MTV was only airing the “Welcome to the Jungle” video late at night, and the album was… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Guns […]

For 58 years, going gold was a simple matter: Sell 500,000 copies of your album or single, get a shiny record to hang on your wall. But thanks to new guidelines the Recording Industry Association of America introduced in early February, it just got easier — and more complicated. Now, along… Source: RollingStone Link: Have […]

Back for a fourth year, the Pepsi Gulf Coast Jam will bring nearly two dozen country artists and Southern rockers to Frank Brown Park in Panama City Beach, Florida. Eric Church, Brad Paisley, Jake Owen and Lynyrd Skynyrd top the festival’s lineup, with more than 75,000 fans expected to attend… Source: RollingStone Link: Eric Church, […]

Since writing it in 1980, Willie Nelson has performed “On the Road Again” at countless live shows, and has even sung sung it at the White House and on the Academy Awards. Now, he adds another milestone to his (and the song’s) legacy: appearing as himself on the hour-long season… Source: RollingStone Link: See Willie […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Five-time Grammy winning rapper Kendrick Lamar is returning to the Essence Festival in New Orleans along with first-timers Jeremih, Leon Bridges and Dej Loaf. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Music's hottest acts to perform at 2016 Essence Festival

For a 68-year-old, Alice Cooper remains surprisingly relevant. He opened for Mötley Crüe on their final tour last year, rocked the 2016 Grammys with Hollywood Vampires and appeared on Sunday’s installment of Vinyl (an episode named after his classic 1973 LP Billion Dollar Babies). We caught up with the veteran shock-rock visionary to get his take… Source: RollingStone Link: Alice Cooper: […]

The latest installment of Rolling Stone Country’s Artists You Need to Know includes a Mellencamp-influenced heartland rocker; an Americana poet from a bygone era; a chanteuse discovered by a country legend; and Pennsylvania native with a Muscle Shoals vibe. Here’s 10 acts for whom 2016 should be a banner year. Source: RollingStone Link: 10 New Country Artists You Need to […]

Last month, a judge denied Kesha’s attempt to extricate herself from a recording contract with Dr. Luke — the producer and songwriter who signed her when she was 18 — despite allegations that he drugged and raped her. She is reportedly required to furnish six more albums for Luke’s label, Kemosabe Records…. Source: RollingStone Link: 7 Great […]

The Rolling Stones have extended their Latin American tour to include a stop in Cuba. The group will play a free show that they’ve dubbed the Concert for Amity at Havana’s Ciudad Deportiva de la Habana on March 25th. It will mark the first time a British rock band has… Source: RollingStone Link: Rolling Stones […]