BTS have partnered with YouTube to launch a new dance challenge centered around their recent single, “Permission to Dance.” The challenge will launch Friday, July 23rd, and run through August 14th, and will be hosted on YouTube Shorts, a new mobile offering that allows for the creation of TikTok-style short-form …
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Tedeschi Trucks Band marked the release of their live album Layla Revisited (Live at Lockn’) by performing three Derek and the Dominos songs for CBS This Morning’s Saturday Sessions. Performing from a New Haven, Connecticut’s Westville Music Bowl, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks and company covered “Bell Bottom Blues,” “Why Does …
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Mark Hoppus stunned fans last month when he revealed that he’s undergoing chemotherapy for an unspecified form of cancer. In a new Twitch Q&A with Chilean Blink-182 fans, the musician shared his diagnosis. “[I have] diffuse large B-cell lymphoma,” he said. “My classification is stage IV-A, which means, as I …
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The life and death of Pop Smoke will be the focus of an upcoming podcast series from Spotify and Complex Networks. The six-episode Complex Subject:Pop Smoke — premiering on July 20th, which would have been Pop Smoke’s 22nd birthday — highlights the late Brooklyn drill rapper who was tragically shot …
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John Mayer explained how a driving creative force behind his new album, Sob Rock, was a desire to make a record that was equivalent to “shitposting” on the internet, in a new interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1. Recalling how he was told at the start of his …
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The Wallflowers performed three songs from their just-released new album Exit Wounds for CBS This Morning’s latest “Saturday Sessions.” Performing inside a Los Angeles mechanics garage, Jakob Dylan and company showcased “Roots and Wings,” “The Dive Bar in My Heart” and “I’ll Let You Down (But Will Not Give You …
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In a four-star review, Rolling Stone declared that with his sophomore album Vice Versa, Puerto Rico native Rauw Alejandro has established himself as “the next Latin pop star,” pushing the boundaries of reggaeton to incorporate synth-pop, funk and drum ‘n’ bass. And it seems the numbers back it up. After …
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Olivia Rodrigo‘s Sour rebounded to Number One in its fifth week on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart with 9,900 sales, 23,300 song downloads, and 119.6 million streams. Sour arrived at Number One in May with the biggest debut week of 2021. It was subsequently displaced by Taylor Swift‘s …
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A new Johnny Cash live album, recorded in San Francisco in 1968 by famed taper and audio engineer Owsley Stanley, is set for release September 24th via the Owsley Stanley Foundation and Renew Records/BMG. Johnny Cash, At the Carousel Ballroom, April 24th, 1968 finds the country legend performing in the …
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Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall, a book of ephemera from and essays inspired by the music and world of the Fall, gives readers a look inside the brilliant and briar-y mind of frontman Mark E. Smith. The book drops for the first time in the U.S. …
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