For her first-ever performance on Saturday Night Live, country singer Brandi Carlile launched right into her defiant heartland jam, “Broken Horses,” wearing a gleaming Elvis-inspired gold lamé suit. But for all the glam, the energy of the music was straight barroom rock and roll. Carlile wielded her burnished guitar like …
Read More »Tom Petty Talks Working With Rick Rubin in Clip From 'Wildflowers' Documentary
Tom Petty and producer Rick Rubin talk about collaborating in a clip from Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free: The Making of Wildflowers, a documentary about the recording of the classic 1994 LP. After screening for one-night-only in theaters on October 20th — Petty’s birthday — the film will head …
Read More »Chris Brown, Noted Judge of Character, Calls Kyrie Irving 'The Real Hero' for Anti-Vaxx Stance
Chris Brown has gone to bat for his friend and NBA star Kyrie Irving, calling him “the real hero” for his stance against Covid-19 vaccine mandates. In an Instagram Stories post on Wednesday, October 20th, Brown said he stood with Irving and added, “Whoever don’t like it … go live …
Read More »Seventeen Tease New EP 'Attacca' With Inventive Highlight Reel Medley
K-pop stars Seventeen teased their new EP, Attacca, with a highlight reel medley featuring a snippet of every song on the seven-track project. The clip opens as “Play” is pressed on a tape recorder, launching a medley/montage where the members of Seventeen perform snippets of each track in different settings: …
Read More »Cyndi Lauper on 35 Years of 'True Colors,' Pride Anthems, and the Next Crop of Innovators
Cyndi Lauper is celebrating the 35th anniversary of her iconic sophomore album, True Colors, which came out on October 14th, 1986. And to mark the occasion, she’s dropping a new expanded digital version at midnight Friday, featuring two bonus tracks: Junior Vasquez’s remix of the title track, a Number One …
Read More »'The Grief Is in the Saxophones': Cate Le Bon Reveals New Album 'Pompeii'
Cate Le Bon gazes into television screens across eerie synths in the video for “Running Away,” her first new music since 2019’s Reward. “I’m not cold by nature,” Le Bon sings, accompanied by saxophonist Euan Hinshelwood. “But this could bring me to my knees.” The track is the lead single …
Read More »Bon Iver Deliver a Devastating Piano-Led Rendition of 'Beth/Rest'
Bon Iver have released a live, in-studio performance of “Beth/Rest,” which will appear on the upcoming 10th-anniversary reissue of the band’s celebrated self-titled album, out January 14th, 2022. The performance of “Beth/Rest” is taken from Bon Iver’s 2011 AIR Studios session, recorded in London at Lyndhurst Hall, a former church …
Read More »Silk Sonic's Debut Album Will Arrive This Fall
Bruno Mars and Anderson. Paak’s Silk Sonic will release their debut album, An Evening With Silk Sonic, on November 12th. The album announcement fittingly arrives on Mars’ birthday, with .Paak posting a photo of the pair alongside funk legend Bootsy Collins — who serves as the album’s “special guest host” …
Read More »Meek Mill is Both Dazzling and Disappointing on 'Expensive Pain'
No platinum rapper is quite like Meek Mill. The lifelong Philadelphian often sounds like a throwback, a hardcore East Coast shouter in an era overstuffed with Autotune-sweetened melodicists. His best tracks – “Dreams and Nightmares,” “Tupac Back,” “Levels” – are as profoundly memorable as any his megastar peers have produced. …
Read More »Judge Suspends Britney Spears' Father From Conservatorship 'Effective Today'
Jamie Spears no longer holds any keys to the Britdom. A judge on Wednesday suspended Britney Spears’ dad from his role as conservator of her $60 million estate, “effective today.” “I believe that the suspension of Mr. James Spears as conservator of the estate of Britney Spears is in the …
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