Robert Plant and Alison Krauss announced new summer tour dates in further support of their latest record, Raise the Roof. The duo is slated to trek across the eastern U.S. prior to their newly announced western leg. Plant and Krauss added a dozen more shows, including performances at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Greek Theatre in Los […]
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss dropped their latest album Raise the Roof yesterday and celebrated the release with performances on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and CBS Saturday Morning. The duo delivered a pre-recorded performance from Nashville for Colbert where they played “Can’t Let Go” and, as a web exclusive, “Trouble With My Lover,” backed by a band of […]
To support their brand new record, Raise The Roof, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are set to embark on a summer tour through the U.S. and Europe. This will be the duo’s first tour in twelve years, beginning June 1 at CMAC in Canandaigua, New York. Tickets for U.S. dates go on sale at 10 a.m. […]
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss just released a Bert Jansch cover “It Don’t Bother Me.” From the Scottish folk musician and Pentangle founding member, the track is reworked by the duo with deep percussion hits and Krauss’ searing croon. “It Don’t Bother Me” gradually builds in intensity through the interplaying guitars of Marc Ribot and […]
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have collaborated again for their first album in 14 years. Today, the duo released “High and Lonesome” off Raise The Roof, which is set to arrive November 19 via Rounder Records. “High and Lonesome” is the lone original from the record, written by Plant and T Bone Burnett and backed […]
Three of the 100 are in this picture! The Rolling Stones, in 1964, from left to right: Bill Wyman, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Brian Jones. The problem with lists like this is they are invariably bullshit. So our prime objective was to make sure we didn’t do a bullshit list. I’m not saying we did a scientific one […]
The concert industry exploded in the 1970s, and the live album, a stopgap project once reserved for only the biggest artists, became a compulsory ritual and a pivotal moment for many artists. Live albums captured legendarily loud bands like The Who and The Ramones in their natural element. Once obscure regional acts like Bob Seger, […]
I’ve met Robert Plant four times. First as a punky grade-schooler, sitting cross-legged on my friend’s worn-out shag carpet, carefully slipping LPs out of their dust jackets for fear her older sister will wring our necks for touching her records. Houses of the Holy, Led Zeppelin IV, I, II. Aside from not leaving fingerprints on […]
Continuing their ongoing series of broadcasting classic shows from the past, YouTube will host a broadcast of Led Zeppelin’s Celebration Day. The show, at least for now, was the last time that Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones (with Jason Bonham filling in for his late father on drums) performed together under the Led […]