Music

As CMA Fest descends upon downtown Nashville, Blake Shelton’s new entertainment venue Ole Red – launching in partnership with Ryman Hospitality – will open its doors for business. In addition to the late-night “Blake Shelton and Friends” concert taking place June 6th, Ole Red will also host digital-music giant Spotify …

Ali ShaheedMuhammadof A Tribe Called Quest and Adrian Younge, known for his collaborations with Ghostface Killah, among others, released a pretty, meditative soul instrumental titled “Black Beacon” on Friday. The track will appear on the pair’s upcoming joint album, The Midnight Hour. “Black Beacon” reaches back to the Seventies, when …

Big Von, a longtime Bay Area DJ, was nearing the peak of a six-hour club set at New Karibbean City in Oakland on December 15th when a regular named Fredy made a perplexing request: “Yo, you got ‘Boo’d Up’?” Big Von didn’t know the record, and he doesn’t like being …

Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan sings some typically moody melodies on a new version of Goldfrapp‘s “Ocean” that recasts the song as a duet with the group’s Alison Goldfrapp. The group originally issued the dusky, electro-pop song last year on their Silver Eye album. This version runs 20 seconds shorter …

Anderson .Paak unveiled a bold new song “Bubblin,” his second track of 2018. The song premiered on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show Thursday and the official video was released shortly after. In the video, Paak lives out a fantasy of going on a shopping spree after coming across a …

On Tuesday,U2announced that they’re going to take a one-night-only break from their ongoing arena tour to play a special gig for SiriusXM subscribers at New York’s Apollo Theater on June 11th. “The band will be playing material from current release Songs of Experience alongside classics from the storied U2 catalogue,” …

The Prince estate has partnered with Roots drummer Questlove to plot an orchestral tour this fall, “4U: A Symphonic Celebration of Prince.” The concerts, presented by Live Nation Urban, will feature the Wolf Trap Orchestra, a live band and several vocalists performing classic songs and deep cuts from across Prince’s …

Musician-actorCalvin the Second was spending a weekend at Coachella when his agent gave him a call. A new music video was looking for a black guitarist, and the multi-instrumentalist who had appeared in films like Whiplash and shows like Nashville fit the bill. Still, he was a bit surprised when …

Brent Cobb is answering a mundane question about being nominated for a Grammy when, all of a sudden, he finds a way to steer the question back to his favorite topic: South Georgia. “When I think about the Grammys, I think about what me and my old group of friends …

On Monday night’s Top 10 competition on The Voice, Blake Shelton’s team members Pryor Baird and Spensha Baker looked to the Nashville songbook for their strongest performances to date. With a red Telecaster slung over his shoulder, Orcutt, California, native Baird took on Montgomery Gentry’s “My Town.” The lead single …