Multi-award-winning guitarist, producer, songwriter and studio owner Randy Scruggs died Tuesday, April 17th, following a brief illness, according to Music Row. He was 64. A four-time Grammy winner who earned trophies for his instrumental work from 1989 to 2001, Scruggs was named CMA Musician of the Year in 1999, 2003 …
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When the Foo Fighters hit the stage on any given night, they only sort of know what will happen. Dave Grohl will make a set list, mapping out each gig’s mega-length sets to include songs from each of the band’s albums and a spate of raucous covers, but the group’s …
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R. Lee Ermey, the gunnery sergeant turned actor who portrayed the scene-stealing drill instructor in Stanley Kubrick‘s Full Metal Jacket, died Sunday at the age of 74. Ermey’s longtime manager Bill Rogin confirmed Ermey’s death on the actor’s Facebook account. “It is with deep sadness that I regret to inform …
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Paul Ryan has really screwed his own party. In the 48 hours or so since the Speaker’s sudden retirement announcement, Republicans find themselves in even greater jeopardy of losing their House majority in November, and pundits on the right and left are painting Ryan as one of three things: a …
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Two decades before Bon Jovi teamed up with Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles for the band’s only country hit, “Who Says You Can’t Go Home,” frontman Jon Bon Jovi sang about steel horses and outlaw living on “Wanted Dead or Alive,” a road anthem that blended the glamour and gloss of Eighties …
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Joan Baez unveiled a powerful new video for “Civil War,” a song off her latest album, Whistle Down the Wind. New York University professor Deborah Willis directed the video, which features dancers Djassi Johnson and Kevin Bozeman in 19th century garb. A mix of contemporary photographs and historical portraits of …
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If you went on Ticketmaster in January and pulled up a third-row seat for Taylor Swift‘s June 2nd show at Chicago’s Soldier Field, it would have cost you $995. But if you looked up the same seat three months later, the price would have been $595. That’s because Swift has …
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When Midland arrive all duded up at the 53rd Academy of Country Music Awards next week, they’ll do so on the strength of “Drinkin’ Problem,” their debut single that hit Number One last summer and scored the trio a pair of Grammy nominations. Heralded as a return to traditional-sounding country, …
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“I hate the sun. I hate the beach. I don’t lay out. I don’t like to be hot,” says Kim Deal dryly. The singer-guitarist and co-leader of the Breeders is sitting on a couch in a basement of her record label’s Soho offices, having just flown up from Florida, where …
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As 1985 got underway for Emmylou Harris, she was closing out a turbulent year in which she separated from husband-producer Brian Ahern and made a permanent move from Los Angelesto Nashville. With dozens of her musical comrades already working and living in Music City, Harris undertook one of the most …
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