Rolling Stone- Foo Fighters Sonic Highways -http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/foo-fighters-sonic-highways-20141111 -Doyle, P. (2014, November 14). Foo Fighters Sonic Highways. Retrieved January 29, 2015. - Dave Grohl, Nirvana's former drummer, headed back into a Seattle studio to record. The album is called "Sonic Highways" which is pretty much perfect for the concept that the album was trying to attain. Basically Dave and the boys traveled to major citys across the country writing songs relating to each experience across the country. Grohl described the album as a "love letter to the history of American Music." Despite the intense concept the band still incorporates many of their well know attributes such as the same Monster guitar crunch, crescendos, and hard bridges found in albums past. IMPORTANT QUOTES! "This time, he's built the concept of his 2013 documentary, Sound City – in which he brought heroes from Stevie Nicks to Tom Petty back to the L.A. studio where they made some of their most classic LPs – into a cross-country road trip of an album" "During the past year, Grohl traveled to eight great American cities with an HBO crew, interviewing key figures ranging from punk icon Ian Mackaye in D.C. to Willie Nelson in Austin, and soaking up inspiration for Sonic Highways" "These songs are some of the band's most ambitious moments yet. The closer, "I Am a River," grows from sprawling to self-righteous over seven minutes, with Grohl getting emotional on top of an orchestra." Dave Grohl is a genius and anyone who thinks otherwise can shove it! 20 years ago he was a drummer in a little band, you may have heard of , by the name of Nirvana! Find me another instance in music history where someone has done what Mr. grohl has done. He basically went to 8 major cities and recorded a song based off each visit and from information gathered through intense research with legendary American musicians such as Tom Petty and good ole Willie Nelson(im sure they shared a nice doobie;)) The reason I think its genius is because he took some many different aspects in music from each of these 8 American cities and incorporated it into a collective album while still staying true too the FOO!

Rolling Stone Country Article The Cadillac Three Get Heavy at CMA Fest, Eye Metallica Date Rolling Stone Country Article. (2014, June 10). Retrieved January 8, 2015, from http://www.thecadillacthree.com/2014/06/10/rolling-stone-country-article/ The Cadillac Three are a recently formed southern rock band that has blown up with country fans of all ages across the country. There a band of three dudes who are extremely passionate about what they play and only sing about what they absolutely believe. These three gents are true southerners that care deeply about story telling in music, which recently, unfortunately, has become a lost art. "Country Music" today is kinda of bullshit pop if you ask me. Its like the labels are telling to the country artists some random bullshit with some country words and things to a pop rock rock beat. “You don’t get story song-telling in rock radio if you listen to it right now." "We made our first record ourselves in a basement studio here in Nashville and it got picked up by Big Machine and [label head Scott Borchetta] and they have always supported the way we really sound,” Mason said. "It’s faster, a dirty riff. And basically is me finding a reason to call a girl a ‘party,'” said Johnston, laughing. “You can take that any way you want to.” The thing I like most about these guys is they chose a label that supports the music they want to put out. Musicians nowadays sell out to labels and put out garbage for money and because it sound good and people will like it. The Cadillac Three make the music they want to make and sing about what they believe in and their label supports that. That is something the music industry lacks today and needs desperately.