UPDATE 3/23: The Kent State University benefit concert has been canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak. A virtual commemoration will take place instead; details will be announced shortly. David Crosby and Joe Walsh will headline a benefit concert at Kent State University to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the massacre. …
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The eighth annual Luck Reunion was supposed to draw around 4,000 people to Willie Nelson’s Texas ranch this week, with a lineup that included Nelson, Lucinda Williams, John Prine, Margo Price, Nathaniel Rateliff, and more. Those plans, of course, went out the window due to COVID-19. Instead of canceling altogether, …
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Usher has been mostly quiet for the better part of four years. He has released a dud here, a solid single there. But since R&B is less interested in the vocal acrobatics, washboard abs, and lithe dance moves that are this star’s stock and trade, he appears content to sit …
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Three new albums debuted high on the latest Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. The leader, Lil Uzi Vert‘s Eternal Atake, earned over 350 million streams, giving the rapper a bigger first-week total than Justin Bieber. The album, Uzi’s first since 2017, achieved this impressive feat without the benefit of …
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Niall Horan has dropped a charming alternate video for “No Judgement.” The track is off of his second album, Heartbreak Weather, out now. Directed by Kanya McMahon, the clip stars Brody Schaffer, a four-year-old internet sensation who went viral for dancing as “Baby Boss Brody” on Instagram. The video features …
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Update: Childish Gambino officially released his new album 3.15.20 – the date the album originally appeared at Donald Glover Presents – early Sunday. Stream the album as one continuous track above, or as a 12-song album on streaming services. Other than “Algorythm” and “Time,” the rest of the album’s songs …
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Norah Jones will release her seventh studio album, Pick Me Up Off the Floor, on May 8th via Blue Note Records. She previewed the record with lead single “I’m Alive,” a collaboration with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy. The laid-back track, which Tweedy co-wrote and produced, features the Wilco leader on acoustic …
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J. Cole‘s Dreamville Festival has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The second iteration of the festival, originally slated for April 4th, will now take place on August 29th at Dorthea Dix Park in Raleigh, North Carolina. “We recognize there’s been a lot of questions about the status of …
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British musician Westerman has announced his debut album,Your Hero Is Not Dead, due out June 5th via Partisan Records. On Wednesday, he shared his latest track from the LP, “Think I’ll Stay,” a meditation on chronic pain. “I wrote this while I was moving a lot,” Westerman explains. “I was …
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DaBaby issued an apology Sunday after video circulated of the rapper striking a female fan in the face prior to his Saturday afterparty concert in Tampa, Florida. Video from Tampa’s Whiskey North posted by TMZ shows DaBaby walking through the crowd when the female fan holds her cellphone – with …
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