Michelle Branch “just wanted to get as far away from my comfort zone as possible” while making September’s “West Coast Time,” her return to pop/rock after a sidestep into country with the Wreckers and her 2010 EP “Everything Comes and Goes.”
”It would have been easy to go back in with (early producer) John Shanks or John Leventhal, who had done the Wreckers project and my last EP, again,” Branch said. “But I was just like, ‘Y’know what?
Robert Earl Keen, Jack Ingram and Reckless Kelly headline Ziegfest on Oct. 22nd, with more artists to be revealed. Tickets to this year’s Ziegfest Texas Music Festival at Whataburger Field are on sale now!
In celebration of H-E-B’s partnership and the ninth year of Ziegfest Music Festivals, special $9 tickets will be offered for the first nine days of the on-sale (through Friday, July 15). Visit the Whataburger Field box office, or call (361) 561-4665.
Ziegfest is also presented by Ziegenbock, Ryan Sanders Entertainment and L&F Distributors.
Cold are one of the few bands that survived the nu-metal explosion of the mid to late ’90s. It’d be a compliment to call them the cockroaches of the hard rock scene, even though it comes out sounding like an insult, but the sentiment is there. While many bands of that era and generation died out, Cold soldier on, with their army of fans remaining as dedicated as ever. ‘Superfiction,’ their new album, is in stores now.
Noisecreep spoke to vocalist Scooter Ward about what allows Cold to keep on ticking, his favorite superhero and his love for cooking.
Cold have endured a lot of trends in hard rock, having burst onto the scene during the nu metal era, which is not to call Cold “nu” at all! Read the rest of article…
Sure, you remember when artists would get gold albums for selling half a million or more copies, and that still happens. Brad Paisley, for instance, just got his eighth gold album with This Is Country Music, which hit 500,000-plus in sales in just a month.
But now, artists are striking gold with singles sold online, and four country acts hit that mark in June. Jason Aldean struck gold with “Dirt Road Anthem,” Luke Bryan did it with “Country Girl (Shake It for Me),” Kenny Chesney with “Beer in Mexico” and Rascal Flatts with “I Won’t Let Go,” according to figures from the Recording Industry Association of America.
But that’s not all. Sara Evans has her
Providing some competition to Tom Hanks rapping son Chet Haze to be the poster boy for the misguided hip-hop endeavors of children blessed with talented lineage, here comes Bob Dylans 15-year-old grandson, Pablo Dylan, whos also decided to try his hand in the rap game. Although Pablo tells AllHipHop.com that hes mostly inspired by rappers such as Eminem, pointing to The Eminem Show as the record that made him fall in love with hip-hop, he does take the time to acknowledge his famous grandfathers influence: My grandfather, I consider him the Jay-Z of his time, the younger Dylan says, which is the ultimate compliment, adding that he definitely has a legacy that a lot of people look up to.