For more than five years now, Jay Joyce has lived here on the basement level of a church on a residential street in East Nashville that — in the interim between it being a functioning Southern Baptist church and the acclaimed record producer transforming it into his dream studio — …
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Philadelphia songwriter Daniel Marino, who filed a lawsuit over Usher‘s “Bad Girl,” has been awarded $44.35 million following a court battle over the track. According to the Associated Press, a jury ordered Marino’s former co-writer William Guice to pay $6.75 million in compensatory damages, along with $20.25 million in punitive …
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Neil Young announced his plan to releaseSongs for Judy, a live album drawn from his November 1976 U.S. tour. The 22-song LP includes solo acoustic performances of all-time classics like “Heart of Gold,” “After the Gold Rush” and “The Needle and the Damage Done,” along with a number of rarer …
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James Taylor grew up in New Bern, North Carolina and wrote one of his most famous songs about the area. The region is still reeling from being severely hit by Hurricane Florence last month: more than 4,000 homes in the town of New Bern alone were damaged, railroad tracks were …
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Fresh off selling all of his musical belongings for charity, Moby announced plans to publish his second memoir, Then It Fell Apart, in 2019. “It’s a journey into the dark heart of fame and the demons that lurk beneath the bling and bluster of celebrity lifestyle,” the producer tweeted of …
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Back in the day, before it was pruned, the genre was called “Country and Western music.” But cowboy songs and border narratives have always been essential to its roots, not to mention sartorial sense. Colter Wall actually hails from Saskatchewan, in Western Canada. With production help from period-conjurer Dave Cobb, …
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While in London this week for a string of United Kingdom dates, Ashley McBryde paid her first visit to British television for a spellbinding performance of her song “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” on Later…with Jools Holland. The title track to her debut album that came out in March, “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” …
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The Wu-Tang Clan are taking the streaming wars to Shaolin. Hulu announced on Thursday it’s ordering Wu-Tang: An American Saga straight-to-series. The 10-episode season is set in New York City during the Nineties and follows Bob Digs’ (RZA) formation of the Staten Island group. Written and created by The RZA …
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A week after Kanye West hijacked Saturday Night Live and held the cast “hostage” by delivering a pro-Trump rant during his show-ending musical performance, Pete Davidson appeared on Weekend Update to slam the rapper. “What Kanye said after we went off the air last week was one of the worst, …
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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit deliver a spine-tingling acoustic rendition of “Cover Me Up” on their new Live From the Ryman album, set for release on October 19th. Romantic and unflinching in its self-examination, the autobiographical song first appeared as the leadoff track on 2013’s Southeastern – the solo …
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