Since the early Nineties, Dave Grohl has played in a few little-known bands like Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, directed a documentary about Los Angeles’ famed Sound City Studios, created a TV series for HBO and even rocked the Acropolis. But that This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Dave Grohl’s Guest List: 21 Amazing Musical...

Chris Cornell, his children Toni and Christopher, and a bevy of stars pledge their dedication to speak out against genocide and other human rights violations in a new PSA for The Promise campaign. Variety premiered the video on Wednesday. The clip features Cornell’s “The Promise,” which he wrote and recorded for the film of the same name that addresses Armenian genocide. He donated all proceeds from the song to the International Rescue Committee, a charity that responds to humanitarian crises...

Sigur Rós recorded two new tracks for an episode of Black Mirror. The sweeping pieces – “End” and “Match” – appear on collaborator Alex Somers’ soundtrack to “Hang the DJ,” an episode from the Netflix sci-fi series’ This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Hear Sigur Ros’ Two New Ambient Songs From ‘Black...

The Killers released an evocative new music video for “Rut,” a song off the band’s recent LP, Wonderful, Wonderful. The Danny Drysdale-directed video is told from the This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch the Killers’ Moving New Video for...

The four-year wait is over. On Wednesday, Jack White released “Connected by Love,” the blistering first single from his upcoming new album Boarding House Reach. The song is a woozy plea for forgiveness from a lover who has burned all his bridges. Recorded with musicians who regularly play in the This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Jack White Releases Two New Songs, Talks ‘Getting Into a Character’s...

Two more women have filed criminal complaints against Russell Simmons accusing the mogul of rape. Asked about the latest complaints against Simmons, NYPD detective Sophia Mason told USA This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Russell Simmons: NYPD Investigating Two More Rape...

It’s that time of year, when we take a breather from the onslaught of last year’s releases and start speculating about what’s in store once this one starts heating up. If half the scheduled, reported and rumored new albums we’re expecting actually materialize, 2018 is going to be nuts. Major pop artists like Liam Payne, Frank Ocean, Ariana Grande and Sky Ferreira are prepping LPs, as are This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: 54 Most Anticipated Albums of...

One day after The Weeknd cut ties with fashion retailer H&M due to a controversial ad campaign, This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: G-Eazy Ends H&M Partnership Over ‘Disturbing,’ ‘Racially Insensitive’...

CES is still a TV conference. Even as the tech industry experiments with augmented reality, self-driving cars, and the outer limits of what you can embed in a refrigerator, everything in Vegas still revolves around the big screen. The 2018 crop mostly marches along the same path manufacturers have been following for decades: Everything’s a little bigger and sharper, and there are new inscrutable acronyms everywhere you look. All in the hopes this is the year you finally spring for...

Nicki Minaj and Migos rapper Quavo look for love in the charming new video for their song, “She for Keeps.” The track appears on Control the Streets, Vol. 1, the first mixtape from the Atlanta-based record label, Quality Control. The Daps and Quavo-directed clip boasts a candy-coated aesthetic packed with nostalgia. As Quavo unspools lovestruck bars in his auto-tuned croon, he plays Super Nintendo, re-pressurizes his Rebook Pumps and chats on a brick-sized flip phone with Minaj, who twirls the chord...

Queen, Tina Turner, Neil Diamond and Emmylou Harris are among the artists who will receive the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. The organization behind the Grammys will also hand out its Special Merit Awards to Louis Jordan, the Meters and Wrecking Crew drummer Hal Blaine. This year’s honorees will be celebrated at a ceremony and concert set to take place this summer. Additional details will be announced in the coming weeks. “This year’s Special Merit Awards recipients are a...

The mating dance of the male superb bird of paradise is like nothing else on Earth. To win the affection of a female, he forms a sort of satellite dish with his body, revealing an entrancing band of blue. He jumps about like this, clicking in the face of the rather drab female, who appears simultaneously intrigued and horrified. Other species of birds of paradise may vary in their plumage and tactics, but they share something remarkable: their...

Crosby, Stills and Nash first played together in 1968, but it was nearly a decade before they toured as a trio. That’s because a certain shaggy Canadian fellow joined their ranks right before they hit the road to support their debut LP. They sold millions of records without the guy, his contributions to their second record would be a scant two-and-a-half songs (only one of which is truly great) and, as Stephen Stills certainly learned during his time in Buffalo...

Bruce Springsteen is offering one fan the chance to meet him and see one of his sold-out shows on Broadway as part of a charity contest to benefit the Bob Woodruff Family Foundation. The contest is run through Omaze and participants can enter with a minimum $10 donation. Donations guarantee fans a certain number of chances to win, with $10 equaling 100 entries, $25 equaling 250 entries and $50 equaling 1,000 entries. One particularly generous fan still has the opportunity to...

A spokesperson for Radiohead‘s publisher, Warner/Chappell, disputed Lana Del Rey‘s claim that the band has filed a lawsuit against the singer over alleged similarities between her Lust for Life song, “Get Free,” and the band’s hit, “Creep.” On Sunday, several British tabloids reported on a pending legal fight between Del Rey and Radiohead. While sources said the two parties were trying to figure out the issue “behind the scenes,” Del Rey wrote on Twitter, “It’s...

Cassie relaxes poolside with a tiger in the new video for “Don’t Play It Safe,” a downtempo funk single that commands a lover to “take the reins.” “Don’t Play It Safe” is produced by Kaytranada, who crafts a beat full of juicy, rumbling low-end and skipping hi-hats. Cassie heaps instructions on top of this foundation: “Don’t wait,” “change the pace up,” “show me some things.” The video is full of lush greenery, an expensive-looking mansion and a pristine...

It’s been more than four years since the Black Crowes split following an epic show at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. In that time, Crowes guitarist Rich Robinson has kept their music alive in his spinoff group the Magpie Salute, but his brother Chris has focused on the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, a jam band that plays almost nothing from the Crowes catalog. He hasn’t even sung many of their songs in any capacity since the group folded, but...

Willie Nelson called off a concert after just one song and was forced to cancel several upcoming dates due to breathing issues, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports. During a Saturday show at the Harrah’s Resort SoCal in San Diego, the 84-year-old musician was performing his opener, “Whiskey River,” when he suddenly ended the performance. Fans said Nelson was coughing and apparently having trouble breathing as he left the stage. Nelson’s publicist told the Union-Tribune that the musician had either “a...

Last Friday, pop superstar Justin Timberlake returned with “Filthy,” a strutting single that’s a surprising pivot from the carefree, innocuous Trolls tune “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” In contrast, “Filthy” is full of grating synths and shrill screams. There’s a pair of stadium-funk breakdowns, all walloping drum fills and histrionic guitars. Although Timberlake has relied heavily on falsetto vocal displays in the past, this time he keeps his voice in the middle of mix, so the singer and the...

Critics aren’t the most obvious subjects for drama. But if anyone qualified for a theatrical presentation, it would be the late Lester Bangs, whose caffeinated, take-few-prisoners prose and rock & roll–animal image (accurate or not) made him nearly as iconic as the musicians he loved, dissected or trashed. Bangs, who died of a drug-related overdose in 1982 at 33, has been immortalized in two anthologies, a biography (Jim DeRogatis’ well-researched Let It Blurt), and a movie (Philip Seymour Hoffman played...