(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) In some kind ...
Here's something that's not often said about rock star memoirs: "Wow, that was really well written." Which isn't a complaint. Most rock stars with a ...
Lyric obsessives like us are always parsing through lines and phrases of songs to get a better understanding of our favorite musicians. What inspires ...
Pusha T can sum up his career in one word: “Weird.” For most of hip hop history, an elder statesman of the game (T turns 36 in May) who wasn’t alrea...
It's been 24 years since American composer and songwriter Van Dyke Parks released a proper solo album. But he's hardly been dormant: in 1998, he rele...
Music is ubiquitous and confusing. Twice a month, Eric Spitznagel stares into the bottomless chasm of new (and old) songs, albums and musicians that p...
Gary Clark Jr. may be the future of blues. His sound stretches widely covering various genres so squeezing him into the compacted box of one genre is...
You could hear at least four different languages spoken at the Bass Concert Hall in Austin on Wednesday night, which is unusual for Texas. So is an a...
Back in the carefree pre-Internet days, videos were only shown on TV. If you had a favorite video, you had to sit and wait and hope MTV played it at ...
“The idea for ‘Secret Tattoo’ came from reading about Pamela Des Barres, the famous groupie and musician from the '60s who fell for Waylon Jennings, N...
The first question I ask Jon Spencer is not, “Why are you not Jack White”? But from the moment we started talking, it's been the elephant in the room...
Music is ubiquitous and confusing. Twice a month, Eric Spitznagel stares into the bottomless chasm of new (and old) songs, albums and musicians that p...
Def Leppard is one of those rare bands where everybody on the planet seems to know every lyric to all their songs and yet nobody has any goddamn idea...
