Lana Del Rey condemned Kanye West‘s support for President Donald Trump as a “loss for the culture” in response to the rapper’s latest MAGA-touting missive on social media. Following his unaired pro-Trump rant on Saturday Night Live, West turned to social media to post a photo of himself wearing a …
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Logic kept his promise to “assemble the Clan like Voltron” on his latest album,YSIV, which dropped Thursday night. “Wu Tang Forever” features appearances from RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, Cappadonna, and Jackpot Scotty Wotty. Predictably, the eight-minute song has its highs and lows. …
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Slash and his bandmates in Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators get the rag doll treatment in the fun new video for “Driving Rain.” The song appears on Living the Dream, which was released via Slash’s own label, Snakepit, in partnership with Roadrunner. In the clip, the band, whose puppet counterparts …
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Spotify Studios’ new podcastUnderCover lifts the curtain on why artists pick what song they cover in their recurring Spotify Singles series. The first episode begins on a melancholy note, with Death Cab for Cutie covering Frightened Rabbit‘s forlorn rocker, “My Backwards Walk,” recorded one month after its lead singer Scott …
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The estate of Chris Cornell has unveiled the previously unreleased song “When Bad Does Good,” as part ofa new, career-spanning, four-disc box set, Chris Cornell, featuring 11 previously unreleased songs. Some of the unreleased numbers, including “When Bad Does Good,” will feature on a pared down, single-disc version of the …
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“Who cares about nice complexion and perfect hair?” Elle King wonders on her biting new track “Naturally Pretty Girls,” a fist-pumping takedown of those who get to glide through life a little too easily. The third song to be released from King’s second LP Shake the Spirit, “Naturally Pretty Girls” …
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Best known for his arena-caliber EDM and bombastic bass drops,Los Angeles-born DJ-producer Dillon Francishas a long and storied history with Latin music. He began releasing mostly dubstep tracks in 2010, when the then-nascent moombahton genre — which combines electro-house with Latin-tinged reggaeton beats — first took the Internet by storm. …
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Half a century ago, when Jimi Hendrix began work on what would become his the final album to come out in his lifetime, Electric Ladyland, he was finding inspiration everywhere. “Jimi was very much in the realm of experimentation,” says one of the album’s recording engineers, Eddie Kramer. Kramer is …
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There’s a new trend in rap: An embattled artist releases an album, faces considerable scorn and decides to host their own interview or radio show to explain away the controversy. It’s supposed to be eye-opening and candid, but usually comes off as simple PR maneuvering. Earlier this year, Kanye West …
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The recording session that yielded Bauhaus‘ goth classic “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” will be reissued in November to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band’s formation. The Bela Session, due out November 23rd digitally and on vinyl, boasts five tracks from the January 26th, 1979 recording session – which took place …
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