Kanye West hosted an incredible, nearly two-hour Town Hall-style meeting at Rolling Stone this afternoon, where he played songs from his fall album, jumped up on a board room table to spontaneously rap, and fielded questions about everything from his diet ("Eating celery is not hip-hop!") to his Italian internship …
In the early Seventies, Jackson Browne relied on sideman David Lindley so heavily, Browne named his touring band "The Lindley Brothers." The musician played everything onstage and in the studio: guitar, slide, Hawaiian steel, banjo and violin. This summer, Lindley returns to the stage with Browne for 37 American dates …
An all-new Michael Jackson collection featuring 10 unreleased songs will be released this November, a rep for the Jackson estate exclusively tells Rolling Stone. At the time of his death Jackson reportedly left hard drives filled with unheard music, much of it recorded during the King of Pop's '80s peak. …
At a near-capacity show for their recently launched Hottest Show on Earth Tour in Pittsburgh last night, Kiss proved why they are the reigning kings of theater rock, delivering an electric two-hour, 21-song set of glam-rock smashes, newer tunes, over-the-top pyrotechnics and plenty of blood-spitting. "We have a problem that …
Radiohead have donated the use of the In Rainbows song "Videotape" to UNICEF's new five-year initiative Put It Right, which aims to provide children everywhere with clean water, health care, schooling and protection from exploitation. The band has also soundtracked ads for the UK charity Shelter with the song. Check …
Kanye West's tour of social network headquarters continued yesterday. The rapper, who just launched a verified new Twitter account, visited the site's offices in California to debut another verse a cappella from his upcoming, still-untitled album, Rap Radar reports. "Lyrically, can't none of y'all murder 'Ye, cuz y'all raps ain't …
The California Attorney General's office has announced that it won't seek charges against seven doctors and one nurse who were under investigation following Michael Jackson's death for prescribing drugs to the King of Pop. A spokeswoman for Attorney General Jerry Brown said that the investigators did not find sufficient evidence, …