A body found in the search for Frightened Rabbit‘s Scott Hutchison has been identified as the singer-songwriter, police confirmed Friday morning. Hutchison was reported missing late Tuesday night in South Queensferry outside Edinburgh, Scotland after sending a pair of “worrying” tweets. Hutchison’s body was found late Thursday night in the …
Read More »Robert Earl Keen Announces Free Hometown Concert, Expands Tour
The summertime heat is already descending upon Texas, and with it Lone Star singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen, who has announced his annual free hometown show on the Fourth of July. Keen, a tireless touring artist who already undertook a wintertime jaunt earlier this year with old friend and fellow Texas …
Read More »Watch Childish Gambino's Caustic Video for New Song 'This Is America'
Donald Glover capped off his triumphantSaturday Night Live episode with the debut of the music video for “This Is America,” the new single from Glover’s musical alter ego Childish Gambino. The video, helmed by Atlanta director Hiro Murai, is a surreal, visceral statement about gun violence in America as Glover …
Read More »Guns N' Roses Detail Massive 'Appetite for Destruction' Box Set
Guns N’ Roses have unearthed a slew of rare and unreleased tracks for the massive reissue of their seminal debut album, Appetite for Destruction, set to arrive June 29th. Appetite for Destruction: Locked N’ Loaded boasts 25 unreleased demos recorded during a 1986 session at Sound City, plus two tracks …
Read More »Jesse Jo Stark Seduces Skeleton Man in Racy 'Fire of Love' Video
Jesse Jo Stark, the brooding singer-songwriter who was one of Guns N’ Roses opening acts last year, released a seductive new video for “Fire of Love.” Directed by Chuck Grant, Lana Del Rey‘s sister, the clip shows the singer writhing around skulls and rocking out in an empty theater. Stark …
Read More »See American Aquarium Predict Doomsday in New Video 'The World Is on Fire'
North Carolina’s American Aquarium take a hard look at increasing political division in the video for their new single, “The World Is on Fire,” and end up placing their bets on the goodness of the human spirit. Gritty and apocalyptic but with strong undertones of hope running throughout, the clip …
Read More »Kanye West Debates T.I. on New Song 'Ye Vs. The People'
UPDATE:Kanye West shared a behind-the-scenes video chronicling the making of his new collaboration with T.I., “Ye Vs. the People.” The clip, like the song, finds the two rappers debating West’s support of President Donald Trump, as well as crafting the track’s back-and-forth in the studio. In the video, West claims …
Read More »Kanye's Trump Love Shouldn't Surprise Us: They're Made for Each Other
In 1968, Bob Dylan was living in Woodstock, New York, where he’d recently relocated to escape public scrutiny, focus on his new family and, eventually, record a shit-ton of world-historic music with the Band. On visits upstate, friends found Dylan relishing his new bucolic life, “contented to talk about stonemasonry …
Read More »The Dreamer: Shamir Is Carving Out His Own Musical Independence
Shamir Bailey has come far from where he was both musically and mentally just one year ago. Last spring, the 23-year-old Philly resident was ready to leave his recording career behind after a few years of feeling trapped in a label deal that left him creatively stifled. While his manager …
Read More »Bebe Buell Talks Saving Steven Tyler, Playing Monopoly With Hugh Hefner
When NYC singer-model Bebe Buell moved south to Nashville five years ago, she brought a blast of rock & roll swagger to the still mainly country-music capital – as well as some of the best rock tales ever told, all of them witnessed firsthand by a woman who calls herself …
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