Wolfgang Van Halen’s Mammoth WVH performed his debut single “Distance,” a tribute to his late father Eddie Van Halen, on Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. While Mammoth WVH is a one-man studio entity, the Kimmel performance served as the debut of the band’s touring unit. The track was penned while Eddie …
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Clover Hope’s essential new book, The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop, doesn’t just tell the stories of the women who helped shape hip-hop, from the pioneering MC Sha-Rock to Cardi B. It also ends up telling the entire story of the genre through a brand-new lens. In the new …
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Sufjan Stevens re-teams with Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino for the video for “Tell Me You Love Me,” a track off Stevens’ 2020 album The Ascension. The video, made in collaboration with photographer Alessio Bolzoni and artist Celia Hempton, is a reunion of sorts for Guadagnino and …
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Martha Reeves was just about to go to bed on Monday evening when she got the horrible news that her dear friend Mary Wilson had died. The two Motown stars had known each other since the earliest days of their careers more than 60 years ago, and they’d traveled the …
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Morgan Wallen spent his fourth consecutive week at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. Once again, he did not face a serious challenger: His 30-song set Dangerous earned 144,200 album-equivalent units, far more than Lil Durk‘s deluxe edition of The Voice, which earned the Number Two …
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Black Pumas have teamed up with Lucius for a cover of the Kinks‘ “Strangers.” The song appears in the trailer for the upcoming documentary Life in a Day 2020, which will debut on CBS prior to the Super Bowl on February 7th. Lucius’ Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig provide backing …
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Rostam tackles global warming with the new single “These Kids We Knew.” “Ain’t proud of where we’re going/You say we can’t afford the slow down,” he sings across lush instrumentation as images of smog, cities, and running dogs flash across the screen. “But the skies won’t take it no more/So …
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Mark Lanegan will release a new book of 76 poems, Leaving California, this spring. His publisher, Heartworm Press, is likening the book to a sequel to 2020 memoir Sing Backwards and Weep, the brooding singer-songwriter’s gritty elegy for the grunge era in Seattle, where he was once the frontman for …
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Rob Zombie has unleashed his new video for “The Eternal Struggles of the Howling Man,” the latest single from his upcoming album The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy. The video melds footage of the rocker and his band laying down the song in the studio with Rat Fink-inspired animation …
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Death Cab for Cutie hit Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday night to perform a cover of TLC’s “Waterfalls,” a cut from their Georgia EP. The record is a collection of covers by artists from the titular state in celebration and support of the Democrats’ victory in the Georgia runoffs. The band …
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