When someone going about their life in America is apprehended by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, the appropriate response is generally concern and support. When 21 Savage was arrested by ICE this weekend, though, a lot of people’s wires got crossed. A collection of fans, celebrities and journalists were …
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Skrillex and Hikaru Utada teamed up for “Face My Fears” and have released its video. The euphoric song serves as the opening theme for the recently released video game, Kingdom Hearts 3, part of the long-running Square Enix and Disney franchise. The new visual comprises gameplay footage cuts interspersed with …
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Musician Anthony Vincent, who has made a cottage industry out of performing hit songs in 20 different styles, takes on Metallica‘s “Enter Sandman” in his latest video. Over the course of six minutes, he interprets snippets of the song to sound like David Bowie, the Beatles, Stevie Wonder and P-Funk, …
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One of the key members of Nashville’s “A-Team” of studio session musicians, guitarist Harold Bradley died peacefully in his sleep early Thursday morning, according to a Facebook post from his daughters. They wrote, “”Many of you know him as a successful musician and no doubt many stories will be told …
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311 reflect on their nearly three-decade career in Enlarged to Show Detail 3, the third installment of their ongoing documentary series. The film premieres in theaters nationwide on, fittingly, March 11th (3/11) for one-night-only screenings. The eclectic alt-rock band produced Enlarged to Show Detail 3 with Wayne Price, director of …
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Aaron Lewis will return with his third full-length country album in 2019. The Staind vocalist will release the follow-up to 2016’s Sinner, titledState I’m In,via Big Machine imprint Valory Music on April 12th. Produced by Buddy Cannon, State I’m In features 10 tracks, six of which Lewis had a hand …
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Saturday Night Live spoofed Soulja Boy‘s headline-making past few months as the rapper, as played by SNL‘s Chris Redd, appeared on Weekend Update. The Soulja Boy sketch follows a pair of bizarre stories involving the rapper: First, his not-quite-legal attempts to become video game magnate and, secondly, an instant classic …
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Tori Kelly collaborated withJimmy Napes, best known for co-writing Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me,” on her urgent new single “Change Your Mind.” The singer’s September album,Hiding Place, was a gospel record, but she transitions back to the secular here: “He spoke to me like the rain/I knew that I would …
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Ghostface Killah brings fresh verses to a classic Wu-Tang Clan beat on a new version of Nicole Bus’ breakout single “You.” The track utilizes the same soul sample – The Charmels’ “As Long As I Got You” – that served as the foundation of Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers‘ classic …
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Lauv and Troye Sivan try to get over both a break-up and love songs on their new track, “I’m So Tired…” The snappy cut finds the two singers unspooling lovesick verses about getting over an impossible-to-forget ex, and an equally inescapable song. Sivan throws in references to tracks like Coldplay’s …
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