Lenny Kravitz kicks out a heavy groove in the new video for “Low.” The track will appear on Kravitz’s upcoming album, Raise Vibration, out September 7th. Jean-Baptiste Mondino directed the video, which features Kravitz at a drum kit, singing in his sensual style. Footage of Kravitz is interspersed with that …
Read More »See Lauren Alaina's Emotional Performance of 'Three'
Lauren Alaina paints an autobiographical picture of her climb to success in the heartfelt track “Three,” and a new performance video puts the personal meaning behind her words in stark relief. Co-written by Alaina with Seth Ennis and Jordan Reynolds, “Three” comes from the 2017 album Road Less Traveled and …
Read More »Roy Orbison Hologram Tour Sets North American Dates
The estate-approved Roy Orbison hologram tour has announced its maiden journey across North America. Following its debut shows this spring in Europe, In Dreams: Roy Orbison in Concert – The Hologram Tour will begin a 28-date run on October 1st at Oakland, California’s Fox Theatre. Like those performances, the show …
Read More »On the Charts: Drake's 'Scorpion' Rides Best Streaming Week Ever to Number One
Fueled byrecord-breaking streaming numbers, Drake‘s Scorpion opened atop the Billboard 200 with the best sales week of 2018 so far. Scorpion sold over 732,000 total copies in its debut week, with the vast majority of that sum drawn from streaming equivalent albums (SEAs): According to Billboard, Scorpion tracks generated 746 …
Read More »Why Most Country Fans Can't Hear Garth Brooks' New Song 'All Day Long'
Reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year Garth Brooks follows up his slick Number One ballad “Ask Me How I Know” with a blast of honky-tonk that’s more in line with what was on the radio when he first won Entertainer in 1991. “All Day Long” is “Rodeo” for 2018 Garth, …
Read More »Welcome to the New Rolling Stone
Welcome to the newRolling Stone. As of today, we’ve given both our magazine and our website complete makeovers. Starting with our current issue, featuring Cardi B and Offset on the cover, the magazine appears in a big, bold, glossy format, with more pages and richer photography. Each issue will feature …
Read More »Warped Tour Heroes Black Veil Brides Contemplate the End of an Era
Andy Biersack is only 27 years old. Yet backstage at a February tour stop in Atlanta, the Black Veil Brides singer sounds like a grizzled veteran.A few months before his band would embark on the final Warped Tour ever – and the future of Black Veil Brides would be called …
Read More »It's a Hard Knock Legacy: Appreciating the Lessons of Joe Jackson
Depending on the time of day and the angle from which one chooses to assess their gloried runs, or the spiritual damage, the Jackson family saga can seem like either the African-American Dream or the Blackest Greek tragedy ever. Only in Black America – where the nation’s worst intentions battle …
Read More »Watch Dave Matthews Cover Cardi B, Migos in 'Fallon' Sketch
Dave Matthews applied his acoustic stylings to songs by Cardi B, Migos and Lil Pump in a Tonight Show sketch where the bandleader performed some of trap music’s biggest hits. Framed as one of those Time-Life infomercials, the elaborate premise allowed Matthews to run through snippets of Cardi B’s “Bodak …
Read More »The Subtly Radical Vision of Maxwell's 'Glass House'
Maxwell is throwing stones. It’s an unexpectedly violent phrase to describe someone who’s made a career of soothing tensions with soft, intimate songs like 1996’s “Sumthin’ Sumthin” and 1998’s “Matrimony: Maybe You.” But two years after his last studio album, the singer is taking on a decidedly more active, and …
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