Bob Seger turned 75 on Wednesday, but in his typical low-key style he didn’t commemorate the landmark birthday with a social-media post or a public declaration of any sort. He’s basically been living off the grid since the conclusion of his farewell tour on November 1st, 2019, which turned out …
Read More »Jamie xx Filmed the 'Idontknow' Music Video the Night Before Lockdown
Jamie xx has released the one-take visual for his latest club track, “Idontknow.” The video stars Belfast dancer and choreographer Oona Doherty, who also co-directed the clip with Luca Truffarelli. Filmed in Belfast in March 2020 — the night before Northern Ireland went into lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic …
Read More »Barbra Streisand Shares 'You'll Never Walk Alone' Clip in Tribute to Healthcare Workers
Barbra Streisand has released a new music video for “You’ll Never Walk Alone” as a tribute to healthcare workers and in support of COVID-19 relief. The song, written for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicalCarousel in 1945, was first recorded by Streisand in 1997, but her most famous rendition of the …
Read More »Drake Releases 'Dark Lane Demo Tapes,' Announces Summer 2020 Album
Drake is known for his prolific streaks. Since 2009, he hasn’t gone longer than two years between projects and his catalog is filled with a vault’s worth of thrown off songs and features. In the worst-case scenario, some of these songs are released unofficially. To combat this, Drake has decided …
Read More »Mavis Staples: 'When We Come Out of This, We Will Be Much Better People'
Mavis Staples was planning on yet another busy summer. The gospel/soul legend had three months of dates with Norah Jones and Patty Griffin booked, but after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Staples will now be holed away in her Chicago apartment for the foreseeable future. Staples has been catching …
Read More »RS Charts: DaBaby Dethrones the Weeknd With 'Blame It on Baby'
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 …
Read More »Nick Cave Launches 24/7 Livestream 'Bad Seed Teevee'
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 …
Read More »iLe, Natalia Lafourcade Share Spellbinding Duet in 'En Cantos'
Puerto Rican folk artist Ileana “iLe” Cabra Joglar and Mexican alt-pop star Natalia Lafourcade play a hairdressing sister act in the new music video for “En Cantos.” The two women run a barber shop, where they suddenly find themselves enamored with a mysterious male patron. As iLe did in her …
Read More »Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga Lead 79-track 'Together at Home' Album
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 …
Read More »Dua Lipa's 'Future Nostalgia' Is the Disco Liberation Soundtrack We Need Now
In early December of last year, back when we still could go places, I took a trip to New Orleans, where seemingly every gay bar I visited had already added Dua Lipa‘s “Don’t Start Now” into rotation. The song was barely a month old at that point, but it felt …
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