Kaytranada recruited Pharrell Williams and Tinashe for his upcoming second LP, Bubba, out December 13th via RCA Records. The Canadian producer previewed the album — which follows his 2016 debut, 99.9% — with the funky new song “10%,” featuring Kali Uchis. “You keep on takin’ from me, but where’s my …
Read More »
Will Smith performed in Times Square to hundreds of people sleeping outdoors Saturday night in honor of the World’s Big Sleep Out, a worldwide fundraiser to end homelessness. Events in New York, London and New Delhi were just a handful of the 50 events that took place around the world …
Read More »
Blink-182 cut through the merriment, joy and cheer with a delightful downer of a holiday anthem, “Not Another Christmas Song.” The track is mostly vintage Blink, with chugging pop-punk riffs during the verse opening up into a full-throated chorus — although there are some expertly placed sleigh bells in the …
Read More »
Owsley Stanley was known as the foremost underground LSD chemist of the 1960s. But he was also an exacting pioneer of live concert sound, a man who helped invent both monitor systems and high-fidelity amplification. When he died in 2011 at the age of 76, Stanley left behind a breathtaking …
Read More »
In support of her debut solo album, Jaime, Alabama Shakes frontwoman Brittany Howard has announced a run of U.S. tour dates in 2020. “New shows for 2020! Can’t wait to get back on the road and play for you,” she wrote on Twitter. The tour kicks off on March 17th …
Read More »
Loneliness has always been fertile territory when it comes to songwriting: Three Dog Night’s 1968 hit “One,” Eric Carmen/Céline Dion’s “All by Myself.” You know the drill. Madrid’s Hinds adds to that canon on Tuesday with “Riding Solo.” “Feeling lonely is one of the most common human feelings, right?”the band …
Read More »
At the end of October, Spotify introduced a new option for labels that allows them to pay to “drive incremental streams” for their artists. This is the centerpiece of an advertising initiative called Marquee. Labels can now purchase a pop-up ad prompting users to listen to Taylor Swift’s Lover, for …
Read More »
Kanye West spent his Thanksgiving releasing the video for “Closed on Sunday,” the latest single off his new album, Jesus Is King. The clip opens with West, wife Kim Kardashian West and children North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm lying in a rock formation before an armada of armored vehicles unload …
Read More »
Eighty years ago today, Anne Mae Bullock was born in Nutbush, Tennessee. The daughter of a poor farm worker, Bullock moved around the country a lot in her early years, eventually winding up in St. Louis where she met a charismatic bandleader named Ike Turner in 1957. He invited her …
Read More »
Celine Dion swept to Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart this week. Courage, her first release since 2016’s Encore un Soir, earned more than 120,000 album-equivalent units. The overwhelming majority of those came from album sales, which were boosted by a bundle offer tying albums to …
Read More »