Editor’s Note (4/30): Due to a technical error, this post has been corrected to reflect revised chart positions for three albums. dvsn’sA Muse in Her Feelingsdebuted at number 24. Westsie Gunn’sPray for Parisdebuted at 71. Jeremy Zucker’sLove Is Not Dyingdebuted at 58. Rolling Stone regrets the error. **** DaBaby‘s Blame …
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Nick Cave has launched a new channel on YouTube dubbed Bad Seed Teevee that will be streaming live, 24/7, for the foreseeable future. Per a description, the channel will boast a rotating mix of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds videos, interviews, live performances and more. On Twitter, Cave marked …
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Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, the Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder and Billie Eilish are among the many artists who appear on Global Citizen’s newly released soundtrack, One World: Together at Home via Universal Music Group. Titled after last weekend’s livestream event, the massive 79-song album compiles all the performances …
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David Crosby had a busy 2020 lined up, with three separate tours, major shows with Phil Lesh, Joe Walsh, and Jason Isbell, and a lot of new music to make. At the moment, Crosby has no idea if any of that is going to happen. “I don’t want to be …
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It was 50 years ago this month that Paul McCartney told the world that the Beatles had broken up. “Personal differences, business differences, musical differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family,” he wrote in a “self-interview” that accompanied the release of his debut …
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Paul McCartney’s handwritten lyrics for “Hey Jude,” used in the studio when the Beatles recorded the 1968 classic, sold for $910,000 at auction Friday. The lyric sheet, which McCartney used during the July 1968 recording session at London’s Trident Studios and then gifted to a studio engineer, had a pre-auction …
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Iggy Pop’s fruitful collaboration with David Bowie in Berlin, Germany — resulting in the Stooges singer’s acclaimed 1977 solo albums The Idiot and Lust for Life — will be the focus of an upcoming 7-CD box set. The Bowie Years features The Idiot and Lust for Life and the 1978 …
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A cadre of music’s heaviest hitters will lead the Grammy Music Education Coalition’s nine-hour fundraising telethon, dubbed Oh Say Can You Stream, on Saturday. Alice Cooper, DMC and host Megadeth‘s David Ellefson will all make appearances during the broadcast, which will take place at 4 p.m. ET on several online …
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Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong continued his “No Fun Mondays” quarantine series with a cover of the Bangles’ “Manic Monday,” recruiting that band’s Susanna Hoffs for a video cameo on electric guitar. The duo put a power-pop spin on the Prince-penned 1986 hit, replacing the original’s twinkling synths and clean …
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Hal Willner — the respected producer who worked with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull, was a long-time Saturday Night Live staffer and compiled a series of offbeat and creative all-star tribute albums — died Tuesday at the age of 64. A rep for Willner confirmed the producer’s death to Rolling …
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