Blackberry Smoke’s Brit Turner endured a harrowing 2022, suffering a heart attack in August of that year and then undergoing brain surgery in November after a tumor was discovered during a routine Mri. Turner continued to battle glioblastoma (brain cancer) over the next couple years, until his death this past weekend at 57. Through it all, his strength and perseverance never faltered, especially as he continued to tour with Blackberry Smoke whenever he could.
Nowhere was Turner’s fortitude and love of music more clear than during his first show back with Blackberry Smoke on Nov.
Nowhere was Turner’s fortitude and love of music more clear than during his first show back with Blackberry Smoke on Nov.
- 3/5/2024
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Fantastic Cat make their case as the Harlem Globetrotters of Americana music with a head-spinning, instrument-trading, vocal-swapping rendition of Wings’ “Band on the Run.” The note-perfect but still ramshackle cover arrives on the 50th anniversary of the release of Paul McCartney and Wings’ 1973 album, Band on the Run, and a day after McCartney announced a new anniversary edition of the LP dropping in February.
Producer Butch Walker herded the Cats at his Tennessee hills studio for the session and joined them on slide guitar and background vocals. But the heavy...
Producer Butch Walker herded the Cats at his Tennessee hills studio for the session and joined them on slide guitar and background vocals. But the heavy...
- 12/5/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
When the Watson Twins sang for Jenny Lewis on her 2006 album Rabbit Fur Coat, they viewed it as simply doing a favor for a friend. Lewis was the Watsons’ neighbor in the Silver Lake neighborhood of L.A., and Chandra and Leigh Watson always liked an opportunity to jam.
Back in high school in Kentucky, the sisters could often be found at their friend’s Grateful Dead shop singing harmonies behind whoever had an acoustic guitar. To them, the Rilo Kiley bandleader’s project was no different.
“We thought Rilo...
Back in high school in Kentucky, the sisters could often be found at their friend’s Grateful Dead shop singing harmonies behind whoever had an acoustic guitar. To them, the Rilo Kiley bandleader’s project was no different.
“We thought Rilo...
- 9/19/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Morgan Wade’s sophomore album Psychopath has finally arrived.
After much anticipation – the country singer’s been highlighted by several publications including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, and more – Wade says she “can finally breathe” now that her record is out.
“The response has been so great already. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart,” she wrote in an Instagram post Friday. “…I’m very grateful today.”
Read More: After Romancing Kyle Richards In Music Video, Morgan Wade Dismisses Relationship Rumours
Morgan Wade- Psychopath album cover art. — Photo: Courtesy of Sony Music
“Writing all this while heading into the studio #acoustic,” Wade, 28, added alongside a winking emoticon, seemingly hinting at her next project – an acoustic album.
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Meanwhile on Wade’s Instagram Story, the Virginia native reposted several fans’ posts of them listening to her new album,...
After much anticipation – the country singer’s been highlighted by several publications including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, and more – Wade says she “can finally breathe” now that her record is out.
“The response has been so great already. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart,” she wrote in an Instagram post Friday. “…I’m very grateful today.”
Read More: After Romancing Kyle Richards In Music Video, Morgan Wade Dismisses Relationship Rumours
Morgan Wade- Psychopath album cover art. — Photo: Courtesy of Sony Music
“Writing all this while heading into the studio #acoustic,” Wade, 28, added alongside a winking emoticon, seemingly hinting at her next project – an acoustic album.
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Meanwhile on Wade’s Instagram Story, the Virginia native reposted several fans’ posts of them listening to her new album,...
- 8/25/2023
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
Bethany Cosentino has released her third single, “For A Moment,” from her upcoming debut solo album, Natural Disaster, set for release July 28 via Concord Records.
The song, about the fragility of life, has the singer leaning into late ’90s folk pop with mandolin tones and pedal steel work. It features backing vocals by the song’s co-writers Madi Diaz, Kate York, and Sarah Buxton.
“The idea for ‘For A Moment’ came to me one morning on a writing trip to Nashville,” said Cosentino in a statement. “After waking up to...
The song, about the fragility of life, has the singer leaning into late ’90s folk pop with mandolin tones and pedal steel work. It features backing vocals by the song’s co-writers Madi Diaz, Kate York, and Sarah Buxton.
“The idea for ‘For A Moment’ came to me one morning on a writing trip to Nashville,” said Cosentino in a statement. “After waking up to...
- 7/6/2023
- by Carita Rizzo
- Rollingstone.com
Bethany Cosentino has released a new single, “Easy.” The piano-driven ballad, about leaving unhealthy relationships behind, is the latest track to emerge from the Best Coast’s singer’s forthcoming debut solo album, Natural Disaster, set for release July 28 via Concord Records.
“I’m not someone who can sit still for long without my brain going into overdrive, but when I’m just sitting alone in my car, I feel peace,” Cosentino explained in a statement. “I had been thinking a lot about where my life was at 35 and how...
“I’m not someone who can sit still for long without my brain going into overdrive, but when I’m just sitting alone in my car, I feel peace,” Cosentino explained in a statement. “I had been thinking a lot about where my life was at 35 and how...
- 6/16/2023
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
Best Coast are going on an indefinite hiatus, and principal songwriter Bethany Cosentino is going solo. Today, Cosentino has announced that she’ll be releasing her debut album, Natural Disaster, on July 28th via Concord Records, and has also unveiled the album’s first single, “It’s Fine.”
Since hitting the scene 13 years ago with their seminal debut, Crazy for You, Best Coast have been a mainstay of the reverb-washed, lo-fi-inspired, indie generation. In a statement, Cosentino explained that the time had come for the duo — her and Bobb Bruno — to move onto the next stage of their artistic lives.
“My identity as a human being, and as an artist, has been so wrapped up in Best Coast for over a decade,” she wrote. “The decision to pause the project indefinitely, and explore a new side of myself, was a very difficult one to make — but it felt necessary for me.
Since hitting the scene 13 years ago with their seminal debut, Crazy for You, Best Coast have been a mainstay of the reverb-washed, lo-fi-inspired, indie generation. In a statement, Cosentino explained that the time had come for the duo — her and Bobb Bruno — to move onto the next stage of their artistic lives.
“My identity as a human being, and as an artist, has been so wrapped up in Best Coast for over a decade,” she wrote. “The decision to pause the project indefinitely, and explore a new side of myself, was a very difficult one to make — but it felt necessary for me.
- 5/3/2023
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Bethany Cosentino is leaving Best Coast behind to explore new territory as a solo artist. Her first single, “It’s Fine,” finds her singing, “It’s fine ’til it’s not fine,” in an upbeat, somewhat hopeful manner similar to what she was doing with Best Coast, though a little poppier. The track will appear on Natural Disaster, out July 28.
“My identity as a human being, and as an artist, has been so wrapped up in Best Coast for over a decade,” she said in a statement. “The decision to pause the project indefinitely,...
“My identity as a human being, and as an artist, has been so wrapped up in Best Coast for over a decade,” she said in a statement. “The decision to pause the project indefinitely,...
- 5/3/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
For fans who got shut out buying tickets to Zach Bryan’s in-demand Burn, Burn, Burn Tour, they now have the chance to catch him headlining one of the South’s most chill festivals. The “Something in the Orange” singer-songwriter, on-again/off-again Twitter user, and sworn foe of Ticketmaster will headline the final night of the 2023 Pilgrimage Music and Cultural Festival.
Set for Sept. 23 and 24 at its regular home of the Park at Harlinsdale Farm in Franklin, Tennessee, just south of Nashville, Pilgrimage 2023 will feature Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night...
Set for Sept. 23 and 24 at its regular home of the Park at Harlinsdale Farm in Franklin, Tennessee, just south of Nashville, Pilgrimage 2023 will feature Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night...
- 3/8/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
There’s been a well-deserved resurgence in Warren Zevon’s music of late, 20 years after the songwriter’s death. Billy Joel raved about his work to the L.A. Times in a recent interview, Shooter Jennings devoted two full concerts to playing only Zevon songs, and, in February, Zevon himself was nominated for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2023.
But Fantastic Cat — a mostly anonymous Americana supergroup whose members prefer to issue press photos wearing feline faces — have been singing Zevon’s praises since their very...
But Fantastic Cat — a mostly anonymous Americana supergroup whose members prefer to issue press photos wearing feline faces — have been singing Zevon’s praises since their very...
- 3/7/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Taylor Swift makes history at the 3rd Annual Gold Derby Music Awards for the most awards won in a single year by an artist. Out of her 11 nominations, she prevailed eight times, including Artist of the Year, Record of the Year (“All Too Well”), and Song of the Year (“All Too Well”), categories she has won every year of the GDMAs so far. But just like last year, she couldn’t take that sweep all the way to Album of the Year. Scroll down for the complete list of winners in all 22 categories, and watch the video announcement above.
SEE2023 Grammy predictions: Album of the Year
About 2,000 registered Gold Derby users cast their votes for the best music from the eligibility period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022 (the GDMAs follow the same calendar as the Grammys), and for Album of the Year they picked Beyonce‘s “Renaissance.” This comes a year...
SEE2023 Grammy predictions: Album of the Year
About 2,000 registered Gold Derby users cast their votes for the best music from the eligibility period of October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022 (the GDMAs follow the same calendar as the Grammys), and for Album of the Year they picked Beyonce‘s “Renaissance.” This comes a year...
- 2/2/2023
- by Daniel Montgomery, Marcus James Dixon, Denton Davidson, Ray Richmond, Joyce Eng and Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
Last May, Butch Walker, Elizabeth Cook, and Katie Pruitt — all of them with Georgia roots — performed Jim Croce’s “Walkin’ Back to Georgia” at a Nashville benefit concert for the Georgia Music Foundation. The one-time-only collab went over so well that later this summer, the trio rendezvoused at Walker’s Tennessee studio to record. “Walkin’ Back to Georgia” arrives today on New West Records.
“My parents used to listen to Jim Croce all the time in the house and I realized how they would always play ‘Walkin Back to Georgia...
“My parents used to listen to Jim Croce all the time in the house and I realized how they would always play ‘Walkin Back to Georgia...
- 12/14/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Taylor Swift leads the 3rd Annual Gold Derby Music Awards nominations with 11 bids including Artist of the Year and Album of the Year for “Red (Taylor’s Version).” Scroll down to see the full list of contenders, which were decided by hundreds of music fans who registered here and cast their votes here. You can now vote for the winners effective immediately. Voting closes at the end of the day on Friday, January 20.
SEE2023 Grammy predictions: Album of the Year
Swift received bids in just about every eligible race. She swept the general field with bids for Artist, Album, Record, and Song of the Year. The last two of those were for “All Too Well (10 Minute Version),” which also scored noms for Best Music Video and Best Pop Song. She got four more nominations in the country/Americana field, and “I Bet You Think About Me,” her duet with Chris Stapleton,...
SEE2023 Grammy predictions: Album of the Year
Swift received bids in just about every eligible race. She swept the general field with bids for Artist, Album, Record, and Song of the Year. The last two of those were for “All Too Well (10 Minute Version),” which also scored noms for Best Music Video and Best Pop Song. She got four more nominations in the country/Americana field, and “I Bet You Think About Me,” her duet with Chris Stapleton,...
- 11/30/2022
- by Daniel Montgomery, Denton Davidson, Joyce Eng, Ray Richmond, Christopher Rosen and Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Jesse Malin takes a page out of Taylor Swift’s book and re-records his 2003 solo debut, The Fine Art of Self Destruction. Due Feb. 17 on the Mnrk Heavy label, the updated version of the LP features fresh versions of fan favorites like “Riding on the Subway,” “Downliner,” and “High Lonesome.” Some, like “Brooklyn,” have been retitled as well: Malin premieres a video for “Brooklyn (Walt Whitman in the Trash)” today.
Directed by Malin’s longtime bass player Cat Popper and photographer Vivian Wang, the video finds the Lower East Side...
Directed by Malin’s longtime bass player Cat Popper and photographer Vivian Wang, the video finds the Lower East Side...
- 11/4/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
It’s a hot late-summer Saturday at the Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival outside Nashville, and Butch Walker has just jumped off the stage of the Americana Music Triangle tent and is wading into the crowd. About half the audience has never seen Walker perform before — he took an impromptu poll — and they look mesmerized by the lost art of showmanship he practices: the pick tosses, the high kicks, the fist pumps, and the journey into the people. Walker hops up on a rickety bench and enlists a fan to hold...
- 10/24/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Butch Walker does nothing halfway: On his last album, a concept record about a politically divided America, he sang from the Pov of both earnest lefties and far-right loons. For the follow-up, Butch Walker As…Glenn, the guitar shredder, songwriter, and Green Day producer transforms into a Seventies barroom piano player whose name gives the record its title.
Ahead of its Aug. 26 release date, Walker announced the project with “Holy Water Hangover,” a piano ballad about losing sight of one’s identity. “Ain’t it funny when the mirror looks...
Ahead of its Aug. 26 release date, Walker announced the project with “Holy Water Hangover,” a piano ballad about losing sight of one’s identity. “Ain’t it funny when the mirror looks...
- 7/25/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Chris Stapleton and Brandi Carlile are headlining the 2022 Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival. The weekend festival — now in its eighth year — is set for Sept. 24 and 25 in Franklin, Tennessee, a short drive south from Nashville.
Other artists performing at the Park at Harlinsdale Farm include the Avett Brothers, Lake Street Dive, Trampled by Turtles, Adia Victoria, Butch Walker, and Jon Batiste, whose album We Are won Album of the Year at this month’s Grammy Awards. Elle King, Dawes, Marty Stuart, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Brittney Spencer, the Brummies, Rosie Flores,...
Other artists performing at the Park at Harlinsdale Farm include the Avett Brothers, Lake Street Dive, Trampled by Turtles, Adia Victoria, Butch Walker, and Jon Batiste, whose album We Are won Album of the Year at this month’s Grammy Awards. Elle King, Dawes, Marty Stuart, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Brittney Spencer, the Brummies, Rosie Flores,...
- 4/20/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Billy Idol previews The Roadside, his first new music in seven years, with the first single from the EP, “Bitter Taste.”
The track, recorded during the Covid-19 pandemic, finds Idol looking back at his near-fatal 1990 motorcycle accident, a crash that almost resulted in Idol losing a leg and left him unable to walk for nearly a year.
“I think everyone has been feeling more reflective (during the pandemic). So, it seemed quite logical and natural to write something about my motorcycle accident,” Idol said in a statement. “Certainly, the motorcycle accident was the catharsis,...
The track, recorded during the Covid-19 pandemic, finds Idol looking back at his near-fatal 1990 motorcycle accident, a crash that almost resulted in Idol losing a leg and left him unable to walk for nearly a year.
“I think everyone has been feeling more reflective (during the pandemic). So, it seemed quite logical and natural to write something about my motorcycle accident,” Idol said in a statement. “Certainly, the motorcycle accident was the catharsis,...
- 8/11/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Nashville singer-songwriter Kalie Shorr will release her new EP I Got Here by Accident on August 13th. On Thursday, she released a new song from the Butch Walker-produced project in the form of the grungy, autobiographical “Love Child.”
Built around a melodic, lightly distorted guitar riff, “Love Child” tells Shorr’s story from before she was born. “Daddy came here on a boat/Momma came here on a plane/I got here by accident/But God doesn’t make mistakes,” she sings in the opening lines, referencing the title...
Built around a melodic, lightly distorted guitar riff, “Love Child” tells Shorr’s story from before she was born. “Daddy came here on a boat/Momma came here on a plane/I got here by accident/But God doesn’t make mistakes,” she sings in the opening lines, referencing the title...
- 7/8/2021
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
The Wallflowers performed their recent song “Roots and Wings” on The Late Late Show. The track comes off the band’s upcoming album Exit Wounds, their first in nine years.
Frontman Jakob Dylan chatted with host James Corden ahead of the performance, appearing virtually for a short conversation. During the interview, Dylan confirmed that he has sung his own song, “One Headlight,” during karaoke.
“I have done that,” he told Corden. “And I think a lot of people like me have probably done a similar thing. I’m just more...
Frontman Jakob Dylan chatted with host James Corden ahead of the performance, appearing virtually for a short conversation. During the interview, Dylan confirmed that he has sung his own song, “One Headlight,” during karaoke.
“I have done that,” he told Corden. “And I think a lot of people like me have probably done a similar thing. I’m just more...
- 6/9/2021
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
The Wallflowers have released another new song, “Who’s That Man Walking ‘Round My Garden,” from their upcoming album, Exit Wounds.
“Who’s That Man Walking ‘Round My Garden” is a bright and punchy rocker that finds Jakob Dylan telling the tale of a hard-working man who seems to grow increasingly paranoid about — as the title suggests — a strange man wandering around his garden. “I keep out of your roses and I expect the same,” Dylan sings. “Next hole you dig gonna be your grave/Call me a doctor and...
“Who’s That Man Walking ‘Round My Garden” is a bright and punchy rocker that finds Jakob Dylan telling the tale of a hard-working man who seems to grow increasingly paranoid about — as the title suggests — a strange man wandering around his garden. “I keep out of your roses and I expect the same,” Dylan sings. “Next hole you dig gonna be your grave/Call me a doctor and...
- 6/7/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The Wallflowers have released a new song, “Maybe Your Heart’s Not in It No More,” from their upcoming album, Exit Wounds, out July 9th via New West Records.
“Maybe Your Heart’s Not in It No More” is a rich country-rock tune guided by a steady backbeat and laced with intertwining acoustic and electric guitars. “It’s gone quiet it’s gone cold,” Jakob Dylan sings, “Acting like someone’s you don’t know/Used to rumble used to roar/Whatever it’s doing it didn’t before/Maybe...
“Maybe Your Heart’s Not in It No More” is a rich country-rock tune guided by a steady backbeat and laced with intertwining acoustic and electric guitars. “It’s gone quiet it’s gone cold,” Jakob Dylan sings, “Acting like someone’s you don’t know/Used to rumble used to roar/Whatever it’s doing it didn’t before/Maybe...
- 5/18/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The late rocker and TV/theater composer Adam Schlesinger, who died from complications of Covid-19 in April 2020, will be feted by dozens of musicians and actors in May in an online tribute being produced by Jody Porter, his longtime bandmate in Fountains of Wayne.
Titled “Adam Schlesinger, A Music Celebration, Virtual Show,” the stream will be primarily recorded at New York’s Bowery Electric and go out May 5 at 8 p.m. Et on the Rolling Live platform, with a ticket price of $20 that will benefit MusiCares and the closed host venue itself.
Said Porter, “This is a proper musical send-off for my soul brother with a bunch of talented and groovy guests that would make Adam wince.”
Among the frequent collaborators of Schlesinger’s who’ll appear on the show besides Porter and his band the Berlin Waltz are Taylor Hanson and James Iha, both of his band Tinted Windows,...
Titled “Adam Schlesinger, A Music Celebration, Virtual Show,” the stream will be primarily recorded at New York’s Bowery Electric and go out May 5 at 8 p.m. Et on the Rolling Live platform, with a ticket price of $20 that will benefit MusiCares and the closed host venue itself.
Said Porter, “This is a proper musical send-off for my soul brother with a bunch of talented and groovy guests that would make Adam wince.”
Among the frequent collaborators of Schlesinger’s who’ll appear on the show besides Porter and his band the Berlin Waltz are Taylor Hanson and James Iha, both of his band Tinted Windows,...
- 4/15/2021
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
The Wallflowers have announced their new album Exit Wounds, Jakob Dylan and company’s first LP in nine years. The band also debuted the first single “Roots and Wings” Thursday during a visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Exit Wounds, due out July 9th, marks the Wallflowers’ first album since 2012’s Glad All Over. Butch Walker produced the LP, which also features Shelby Lynne on four tracks.
“I think everybody — no matter what side of the aisle you’re on — wherever we’re going to next, we’re all taking a...
Exit Wounds, due out July 9th, marks the Wallflowers’ first album since 2012’s Glad All Over. Butch Walker produced the LP, which also features Shelby Lynne on four tracks.
“I think everybody — no matter what side of the aisle you’re on — wherever we’re going to next, we’re all taking a...
- 4/9/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out last week’s best songs.)
Amy Shark featuring Keith Urban, “Love Songs Ain’t for Us”
Australian singer-songwriter Amy Shark gets an assist from Keith Urban on “Love Songs Ain’t for Us,” a soaring ballad she co-wrote with Ed Sheeran...
Amy Shark featuring Keith Urban, “Love Songs Ain’t for Us”
Australian singer-songwriter Amy Shark gets an assist from Keith Urban on “Love Songs Ain’t for Us,” a soaring ballad she co-wrote with Ed Sheeran...
- 2/22/2021
- by Jonathan Bernstein, Jon Freeman and Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
As part of our newly updated survey of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, we’re publishing a series of pieces on the making and impact of key records from the list. Taylor Swift’s Red came in at number 99. Hear Swift reflect on the album in the second episode of our 500 Greatest Albums podcast.
The creation of Taylor Swift’s transformational album Red began at a rehearsal for the singer-songwriter’s tour supporting her 2010 album Speak Now. Hurting after a recent breakup, Swift began ad-libbing heartsick lyrics over a...
The creation of Taylor Swift’s transformational album Red began at a rehearsal for the singer-songwriter’s tour supporting her 2010 album Speak Now. Hurting after a recent breakup, Swift began ad-libbing heartsick lyrics over a...
- 11/18/2020
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
What happens when two truly larger-than-life figures in country music decide to combine their powers? The answer is “the Unrighteous Brothers,” an unlikely-but-winning collaboration between Paul Cauthen and Orville Peck created for the express purpose of covering classic Righteous Brothers tunes.
“When I first heard Orville’s voice, I knew we’d sound good together,” Cauthen says in a release about the songs. “I’ve always wanted to cover some Righteous Brothers tunes, but it took time to find the person I could pull it off with.”
With Butch Walker...
“When I first heard Orville’s voice, I knew we’d sound good together,” Cauthen says in a release about the songs. “I’ve always wanted to cover some Righteous Brothers tunes, but it took time to find the person I could pull it off with.”
With Butch Walker...
- 9/24/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
There’s a steel guitar solo on Elizabeth Cook’s new album Aftermath that sounds like no steel guitar you’ve heard before. Snaking and shimmering rather than twangy and weepy, the solo on “Perfect Girls of Pop,” played through a flanger pedal, is more Giorgio Moroder than George Jones. It’s only 30 seconds in length, but that brief transcendent journey drives home the point that this LP — Cook’s sixth — is far from the traditional country music of her past.
In fairness, the Wildwood, Florida, native, who released a...
In fairness, the Wildwood, Florida, native, who released a...
- 9/11/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Cassadee Pope will release her new album, Rise and Shine, later this summer. Ahead of its August 7th arrival, the country-pop singer is releasing the tracks “Built This House” and “Let Me Go” on Friday.
Pope filmed a lyric video for the latter song, which premieres Thursday afternoon, a few hours before she hosts an online Q&a and performance for fans on her website. Unlike most lyric videos, the one for “Let Me Go” actually features the artist, who is shown sitting alone on stairs and strumming her guitar.
Pope filmed a lyric video for the latter song, which premieres Thursday afternoon, a few hours before she hosts an online Q&a and performance for fans on her website. Unlike most lyric videos, the one for “Let Me Go” actually features the artist, who is shown sitting alone on stairs and strumming her guitar.
- 6/25/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Singer-songwriter Elizabeth Cook has returned with “Perfect Girls of Pop,” the lead offering from her upcoming seventh album. Titled Aftermath and produced by Butch Walker, the new project will be released September 11th via Agent Love/Thirty Tigers.
In “Perfect Girls of Pop,” Cook mines a vein of restless, jangling college rock that calls to mind R.E.M. and the Replacements. Featuring guitar work by Andrew Leahey (an occasional Rolling Stone contributor), the tune lets Cook ruminate on the path of being an outsider and all the heartache one endures along the way,...
In “Perfect Girls of Pop,” Cook mines a vein of restless, jangling college rock that calls to mind R.E.M. and the Replacements. Featuring guitar work by Andrew Leahey (an occasional Rolling Stone contributor), the tune lets Cook ruminate on the path of being an outsider and all the heartache one endures along the way,...
- 6/18/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists.
Ashley Ray, “Dirty Work”
The humidity is thick in Ashley Ray’s new song “Dirty Work,” a steamy, sultry, and sneering track off her upcoming album Pauline. The Nashville-by-way-of-Kansas songwriter (she co-wrote Little Big Town’s “The Daughters”) adopts a trailer-park persona in the song’s video,...
Ashley Ray, “Dirty Work”
The humidity is thick in Ashley Ray’s new song “Dirty Work,” a steamy, sultry, and sneering track off her upcoming album Pauline. The Nashville-by-way-of-Kansas songwriter (she co-wrote Little Big Town’s “The Daughters”) adopts a trailer-park persona in the song’s video,...
- 5/26/2020
- by Jon Freeman and Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Nestled between the second and third tracks on Butch Walker’s new album, American Love Story, there’s a talk-radio sketch that sums up the polar-opposite stereotypes of the 2020 United States.
Female caller Annie passionately preaches her belief in “equality” and “helping out others,” while testosterone-charged Bo rattles off the minorities he hates. Both say they love freedom: For Annie, it’s represented by the sound of church bells at a gay couple’s wedding; for Bo, it’s a gun chambering a bullet. “That’s the sound of freedom,...
Female caller Annie passionately preaches her belief in “equality” and “helping out others,” while testosterone-charged Bo rattles off the minorities he hates. Both say they love freedom: For Annie, it’s represented by the sound of church bells at a gay couple’s wedding; for Bo, it’s a gun chambering a bullet. “That’s the sound of freedom,...
- 5/21/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
“I love you!” a girl giggles at the beginning of Butch Walker’s new song “Pretty Crazy,” to which Walker deadpans, “Oh, cool.” It’s a lightning-flash exchange that nonetheless sums up the superficiality of today’s culture — are anyone’s words ever really sincere?
Walker tackles all sorts of words and viewpoints in the modern-day United States on his upcoming new album American Love Story, a rock opera told from the perspectives of characters like a bigot, a liberal, a gay man, and the vapid woman (Walker referred to...
Walker tackles all sorts of words and viewpoints in the modern-day United States on his upcoming new album American Love Story, a rock opera told from the perspectives of characters like a bigot, a liberal, a gay man, and the vapid woman (Walker referred to...
- 3/27/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
“Expect the unexpected, because it’s going to get weird,” house-band bassist Austin Scaggs warned the crowd at start of the eighth annual Wammy party on Saturday night in Los Angeles. Scaggs was right in more ways than one; about an hour later, in a sort of Hollywood fever dream, Weird Al Yankovic took the stage and broke from his usual staple of parodies to sing surprisingly tight versions of Tom Petty’s “Breakdown” and the Beatles’ “Savoy Truffle.”
Performances like these are the norm at The Wammys, the pre-Grammy party hosted by BMG,...
Performances like these are the norm at The Wammys, the pre-Grammy party hosted by BMG,...
- 1/26/2020
- by Ethan Millman
- Rollingstone.com
Sometimes a film is meant to challenge you, and perhaps even upset you. Sometimes a film is meant to excite and thrill you. And in some cases, a film is just meant to move you and make you feel great. With “The Peanut Butter Falcon,” written and directed by Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson, the heartwarming project is meant to leave you with a smile on your face as you exit the theater.
Continue reading ‘Peanut Butter Falcon’ Exclusive Music Video: Parker Ainsworth, Butch Walker, Paris Jackson & Jessie Payo Combine Forces On New Song at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Peanut Butter Falcon’ Exclusive Music Video: Parker Ainsworth, Butch Walker, Paris Jackson & Jessie Payo Combine Forces On New Song at The Playlist.
- 9/25/2019
- by Charles Barfield
- The Playlist
Choosing a life as a touring musician usually means following a path that exists outside of convention: more long drives than white picket fences, more debt than desk jobs. It’s not always easy, but it’s almost always rewarding, a dichotomy that Michaela Anne explores on her new song “By Our Design.” The first release from her forthcoming LP Desert Dove (out September 27th on Yep Roc), “By Our Design” is a gorgeous meditation on picking the road not taken, matching Anne’s rich vocals with wistful strings arranged and played by Kristin Weber.
- 6/12/2019
- by Marissa R. Moss
- Rollingstone.com
Weezer’s Scott Shriner, Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz and songwriter-producer Butch Walker open up about their youthful struggles with anxiety in a new video for the Child Mind Institute’s 2019 #MyYoungerSelf social media campaign.
In a clip featuring the full band, Shriner reflected on his childhood self as “super sick, different and weird” — a kid who “hated himself and [was] scared of everything, hid under the bed when it was time to go to school.” But he emphasized the importance of finding a passion and pursuing it: “[Try to] find something...
In a clip featuring the full band, Shriner reflected on his childhood self as “super sick, different and weird” — a kid who “hated himself and [was] scared of everything, hid under the bed when it was time to go to school.” But he emphasized the importance of finding a passion and pursuing it: “[Try to] find something...
- 5/23/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
Veteran Texas performer Jack Ingram turns in a searing, six-minute cover of Guy Clark’s famed “Desperados Waiting for a Train” in a new video, filmed during tracking at Arlyn Studios in Austin, Texas. The song appears on Ingram’s 10th studio album Riding High…Again, which was released Friday.
Ingram had the opportunity to collaborate with late songwriting icon Clark on several occasions. Their friendship adds some heft to Ingram’s rendering of the story about the bond between a younger man and an “old school man of the world,...
Ingram had the opportunity to collaborate with late songwriting icon Clark on several occasions. Their friendship adds some heft to Ingram’s rendering of the story about the bond between a younger man and an “old school man of the world,...
- 4/26/2019
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
It was a foggy autumn night in New York’s Rainbow Room when Joe Walsh took center stage — no guitar in sight. So he addressed the elephant in the room: “I’m Joe, and I’m an alcoholic.” It’s a half-joke, meant to set the audience at ease while gently reminding the tables of suits and sequined dresses that addiction is not some distant, dark memory; but on the contrary it’s a specter that hangs over fifty million Americans. Even the ones who sell out Madison Square Garden.
- 3/16/2019
- by Sarah Grant
- Rollingstone.com
Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas unveiled a thunderous, life-affirming new song, “One Less Day (Dying Young),” from his forthcoming solo record, Chip Tooth Smile, out April 26th.
“One Less Day” was produced by Butch Walker and boasts a steady gallop of drums and chugging guitars, over which Thomas delivers an impassioned vocal performance with lyrics like, “All my life I have been wandering/Burning up my candle like my time just won’t end/And I’ll keep burning until there’s nothing left/Praying that tomorrow I can do it all again.
“One Less Day” was produced by Butch Walker and boasts a steady gallop of drums and chugging guitars, over which Thomas delivers an impassioned vocal performance with lyrics like, “All my life I have been wandering/Burning up my candle like my time just won’t end/And I’ll keep burning until there’s nothing left/Praying that tomorrow I can do it all again.
- 2/20/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Like fellow punk-minded performers Brian Fallon, Jesse Malin and Butch Walker, songwriter Dave Hause has become expert at melding introspective, often edgy, Americana lyricism with the most irresistible of pop-rock hooks. The Philadelphia native, and onetime leader of punk outfit the Loved Ones, further hones his craft on the new album Kick, the follow-up to 2017’s Bury Me in Philly.
Hause announces the LP, due April 12th release, with the cathartic new song “The Ditch.” Written by Hause and his brother/bandmate Tim Hause, the track is a guitar-fueled rager...
Hause announces the LP, due April 12th release, with the cathartic new song “The Ditch.” Written by Hause and his brother/bandmate Tim Hause, the track is a guitar-fueled rager...
- 2/13/2019
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Over the course of three albums, Rayland Baxter has sketched his own picture of lush Americana and oddball folk, singing songs about fishhooks and females along the way. With his latest release, Wide Awake, he presents his own version of classic pop-rock. It’s a sound that’s rich in tone, texture and the unique songwriting of a Nashville native who grew up watching his father, pedal steel legend Bucky Baxter, playing with some of the late 20th century’s most iconic frontmen.
As the guest on this week’s episode of Walking the Floor,...
As the guest on this week’s episode of Walking the Floor,...
- 1/28/2019
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real, Margo Price, Butch Walker, Madisen Ward and new artist Desure were among the acts performing at a benefit concert on Monday night in support of first responders and low-income families affected by the November Woolsey fire in California.
Held at the Canyon Club in Augora, California, the benefit featured a headlining set by Nelson, who welcomed Price to the stage for a performance of his slow-burner “Find Yourself.” Originally appearing on Nelson’s 2017 self-titled LP and featuring Lady Gaga on background vocals, “Find...
Held at the Canyon Club in Augora, California, the benefit featured a headlining set by Nelson, who welcomed Price to the stage for a performance of his slow-burner “Find Yourself.” Originally appearing on Nelson’s 2017 self-titled LP and featuring Lady Gaga on background vocals, “Find...
- 12/18/2018
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
A cover of an Eighties classic by a promising new trio, the latest nautical-themed entry from a country superstar and a gorgeous message of being in the moment are among the 10 tracks you must hear this week.
Nobody’s Girl, “Call Me”
Blondie’s 1980 chart-topper gets a millennial makeover. Caught halfway between arena-country and modern rock, the revamped “Call Me” finds Nobody’s Girl layering their three-part harmonies over electric guitars, fiddle and driving drums. Bandmates Betty Soo, Grace Pettis and Rebecca Loebe are all seasoned songwriters in their own right,...
Nobody’s Girl, “Call Me”
Blondie’s 1980 chart-topper gets a millennial makeover. Caught halfway between arena-country and modern rock, the revamped “Call Me” finds Nobody’s Girl layering their three-part harmonies over electric guitars, fiddle and driving drums. Bandmates Betty Soo, Grace Pettis and Rebecca Loebe are all seasoned songwriters in their own right,...
- 7/20/2018
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
Rayland Baxter was ready to get away from the world in the autumn of 2016. In this, the Nashville singer-songwriter was hardly unique, but in the three months that he spent living in an old rubber factory in rural Kentucky, with little more than a mattress, a guitar, and a Wurlitzer, Baxter did something with his political angst: he wrote an album.
“I knew I had a bunch of song ideas that I wanted to start getting going on, and I knew I wanted to go out to some place in the woods.
“I knew I had a bunch of song ideas that I wanted to start getting going on, and I knew I wanted to go out to some place in the woods.
- 7/18/2018
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
It’s been a dozen years since Suzanne Santo and Ben Jaffe sat together in the lobby of a West Hollywood pot dispensary, acoustic guitars in hand, strumming the song that would eventually become the closer for every HoneyHoney show.
“Those were some of our first gigs, playing the weed shops in L.A.,” Jaffe remembers. “They were certainly the first gigs that paid us. We’d play the waiting area for an hour and pick up a few hundred bucks, which was a jackpot back then.”
“Come on Home...
“Those were some of our first gigs, playing the weed shops in L.A.,” Jaffe remembers. “They were certainly the first gigs that paid us. We’d play the waiting area for an hour and pick up a few hundred bucks, which was a jackpot back then.”
“Come on Home...
- 7/10/2018
- by Robert Crawford
- Rollingstone.com
Pre-teen heartbreak! Paris Jackson opened up about her first concert experience on Monday night’s Tonight Show, telling host, Jimmy Fallon, that her first real show was High School Musical Live.
“Zac Efron, like, omg,” Fallon quipped.
“He actually wasn't there. I was so bummed! He wasn't there, he was filming that movie with horses,” Jackson said.
In fact, Efron was replaced in the live tour by singer Drew Seeley who voiced the character of Troy Bolton in the first film’s songs.
“That was, like, the most depressing part about it. He wasn’t there, and I was, like, this heartbroken 10-year-old,” Jackson recalled.
Watch: Paris Jackson Says She Was ‘Perfect’ in Dad Michael’s Eyes, Says She Has Days When She’s ‘Too Sensitive’
“Did [Seeley] look like Zac?” Fallon asked as the model and TV personality shook her head no.
But just because it didn’t work out with Efron doesn’t mean that Jackson...
“Zac Efron, like, omg,” Fallon quipped.
“He actually wasn't there. I was so bummed! He wasn't there, he was filming that movie with horses,” Jackson said.
In fact, Efron was replaced in the live tour by singer Drew Seeley who voiced the character of Troy Bolton in the first film’s songs.
“That was, like, the most depressing part about it. He wasn’t there, and I was, like, this heartbroken 10-year-old,” Jackson recalled.
Watch: Paris Jackson Says She Was ‘Perfect’ in Dad Michael’s Eyes, Says She Has Days When She’s ‘Too Sensitive’
“Did [Seeley] look like Zac?” Fallon asked as the model and TV personality shook her head no.
But just because it didn’t work out with Efron doesn’t mean that Jackson...
- 3/21/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Butch Walker has produced pop hits for everyone from Taylor Swift and Fall Out Boy to Katy Perry and Pink. But the songwriter and rocker’s most personal music has come from his own pain.
In a new episode of Ernie Ball: The Pursuit of Tone, Walker opens up about his relationship with his father and how his dad’s death informed his songwriting — and People has an exclusive first look at the poignant episode.
“My dad and I were really close the last half of his life. The first half, I had to earn his respect,” Walker (born Bradley Glenn Walker...
In a new episode of Ernie Ball: The Pursuit of Tone, Walker opens up about his relationship with his father and how his dad’s death informed his songwriting — and People has an exclusive first look at the poignant episode.
“My dad and I were really close the last half of his life. The first half, I had to earn his respect,” Walker (born Bradley Glenn Walker...
- 11/4/2016
- by Jeff Nelson
- PEOPLE.com
Carly Rae Jepsen recently covered the Full House theme "Everywhere You Look" for the Netflix series Fuller House, and at the singer's Milwaukee concert on Friday, Jepsen was joined by actor Bob Saget, who plays the patriarch Danny Tanner on the show, for a surprise rendition of the theme song. As Saget noted on Twitter, he was in Wisconsin for his own comedy show as Jepsen's tour happened to pass through.
"Full House is essentially my childhood. It was my favorite TV show growing up," Jepsen recently told Rolling Stone of re-recording the show's theme.
"Full House is essentially my childhood. It was my favorite TV show growing up," Jepsen recently told Rolling Stone of re-recording the show's theme.
- 3/13/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Today’s the big day that “Fuller House” fans can see the entire 13-episode series on Netflix, and there’s even a special remake of the original theme song.
Canadian pop princess Carly Rae Jepsen gladly stepped up to the microphone for an updated version of “Everywhere You Look” by Jesse Frederick, working with writer/producer Butch Walker.
Earlier today (February 26) creator Jeff Franklin told the Kidd Kraddick in the Morning radio show that while there’s no guarantee of a second “Fuller House” season, he certainly left plenty of doors open in case Netflix re-ups his contract.
Canadian pop princess Carly Rae Jepsen gladly stepped up to the microphone for an updated version of “Everywhere You Look” by Jesse Frederick, working with writer/producer Butch Walker.
Earlier today (February 26) creator Jeff Franklin told the Kidd Kraddick in the Morning radio show that while there’s no guarantee of a second “Fuller House” season, he certainly left plenty of doors open in case Netflix re-ups his contract.
- 2/26/2016
- GossipCenter
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