Q&A: Brian Wilson On Beach Boys Tour & Next Album, Possible Frank Sinatra...
Brian Wilson is the reason to go see the Beach Boys’ 50th anniversary tour, but he also happens to be the cause of it. One might assume it’s another one of those tours engineered to reunite feuding...
View ArticleQ&A: ‘American Idol’ Runner-Up Kree Harrison On What’s Next, Grand Ole Opry &...
Almost two weeks ago, Kree Harrison stood in front of the nation and learned that she was the American Idol season 12 runner-up. Though Candice Glover took the reality competition show’s top title,...
View ArticleQ&A: Train’s Pat Monahan on New Music, ‘Mermaids of Alcatraz’& the Likelihood...
(Christopher Polk/Getty Images) Pat Monahan doesn’t want to go home. While Train’s Mermaids of Alcatraz Tour with The Script, Gavin DeGraw and Ashley Monroe will come to a close Aug. 14, Monahan...
View ArticleQ&A: Luke Bryan Talks New Album ‘Crash My Party,’ His Roots & Songwriting
Luke Bryan (Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Music Choice) By all accounts, Luke Bryan is having a fantastic year. From winning the Academy of Country Music’s Entertainer of the Year this past spring, to...
View ArticleQ&A: QOTSA’s Josh Homme On the Tour Grind, Eagles of Death Metal & Listening...
Josh Homme of QOTSA (Jeffrey Neira/CBS) For a band as big and established as Queens of the Stone Age, 2013 has proved to be quite the comeback year for frontman Josh Homme and company, following a...
View ArticleTegan and Sara Talk Intelligent Pop, Touring With fun. & Being Macklemore’s...
Tegan and Sara backstage at Lollapalooza 2013. (Jeremy D. Larson/Radio.com) When Tegan and Sara released their first album, Under Feet Like Ours, in 1999, pop was Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears....
View ArticleQ&A: Jessie Ware on New Music, Disclosure & Soundtracking Condom Commercials
Jessie Ware backstage at Lollapalooza. (Jeremy D. Larson/Radio.com) After touring the States three times within a two-year span, Jessie Ware feels like she’s finally found her groove in America. Though...
View ArticleInterview: Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil Remembers Grunge’s Early Years
Kim Thayil. (Jim Dyson/Getty Images) By Richard Bienstock Soundgarden may not have been the very first Seattle grunge band, but they are possibly the most influential. No, really. Their 1987 debut,...
View ArticleQ&A: Dave Davies Talks Documentary, Oasis as The Kinks 2.0, Rock Hall Noms
(Dave Davies, third from left, with the Kinks/Getty Images) Speaking with Kinks guitarist Dave Davies, it’s almost difficult not to focus on that riff. Other than Deep Purple’s “Smoke On The Water,”...
View ArticleQ&A: Jake Owen’s New Album ‘Days of Gold’ Marks the Start of a Monster Year
Jake Owen (Erika Goldring/Getty Images) No doubt about it, 2014 is going to be a huge year for Jake Owen. And it all starts this week with the unveiling of his new album, Days of Gold. Released this...
View ArticleQ&A: ‘Divergent’ Music Supervisor, Randall Poster Talks About The Influence...
By Courtney E. Smith The film that promises to be the next cultural zeitgeist, Divergent, hits theaters today (March 21) and features a soundtrack that gives both Twilight and The Hunger Games a run...
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