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Jason Isbell cleans up at Americana Awards

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Singer-songwriter Jason Isbell has swept the major awards at the Americana Honors & Awards. Isbell won artist, album and song of the year during the 13th annual...

DATE: Sep 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Review: alt-J returns with beautiful, baffling LP

alt-J, “This Is All Yours” (Atlantic) The new album from alt-J isn’t supposed to exist. Nobody, we’re told, wants to hear this kind of stuff anymore. The album – and especially th...

DATE: Sep 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Forward-thinking U2 innovating while entertaining

Since U2 stunned the music world by delivering a surprise album at Apple’s iPhone 6 unveiling and making it available to a half-billion iTunes users for free, they’ve gotten an avalanche of ...

DATE: Sep 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Robert Plant sets aside rambling ways on new LP

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Robert Plant has been a lifelong rambler with almost no interest in returning home to Great Britain. These days, though, he’s as snug as a hobbit in his hole in his native...

DATE: Sep 12, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Review: No surprise, the surprise U2 album shines

U2, “Songs of Innocence” (Interscope) Everything about U2’s new album is unexpected. Like its very existence, for one, after the Irish rock band dropped it on iTunes users Tuesday...

DATE: Sep 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Clapton says thank you to Cale with ‘The Breeze’

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – For Eric Clapton, the early 1970s were filled with drug addiction, personal difficulties and growing dissatisfaction with music. Singer-songwriter JJ Cale rescu...

DATE: Jul 24, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Trent Reznor contemplates the future, the road

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Trent Reznor is in a race with technology, from the way he presents his music to fans on the road to how he approaches his job as chief creative officer at Beats Electroni...

DATE: Jul 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Teenie Hodges, genre-defining Memphis player, dies

Teenie Hodges, the diminutive guitarist and “Take Me to the River” songwriter who became a towering figure in the Memphis music scene, has died. He was 68. Longtime friend and Ro...

DATE: Jun 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Nick Cave takes rock documentary on the road

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nick Cave had an immediate reaction when filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard pitched the idea of a rock documentary. “I couldn’t think of anything worse,” ...

DATE: Jun 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Kiss not the first to tell Rock Hall to kiss off

Miffed band refused to attend famous induction ceremony

DATE: Apr 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Kurt Cobain remembered, 20 years after death

Kurt Cobain changed Win Butler’s world. Billie Joe Armstrong thought the Nirvana frontman was his generation’s John Lennon and Paul McCartney. And Beck thinks he owes a debt of gratitude to ...

DATE: Apr 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Wu-Tang forever, but not with RZA on the mic

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – RZA sees the latest Wu-Tang Clan endeavor as the end of the influential rap group as we know it. The 44-year-old Wu-Tang leader and producer says he’s still six...

DATE: Nov 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music