Thirty Seconds to Mars will host their fourth annual Camp Mars music festival August 11th through 13th in Malibu, California. At Camp Mars, fans can relive their favorite summer camp activities with the chance to interact with the Jared Leto-led rock outfit. Camp Mars activities include hiking, yoga, art installations, meditation, games and, of course, music. Camp Mars ticket packages will be available to purchase January 22nd via the festival’s website. A complete list of activities is also available to...
Jimi Hendrix‘s previously unreleased cover of Muddy Waters’ “Mannish Boy” was released via BBC Radio 6. The late guitarist recorded the famous blues cut at the Record Plant in New York on April 22, 1969. He was accompanied by bassist Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles, who soon adopted the name the Band of Gypsys. Around the 1:20 mark in “Mannish Boy,” Hendrix lightens the mood by mimicking his own guitar line with high-pitched, wordless singing. This playful approach was common during...
Diddy announced plans to donate $200,000 to the Unforgettable healthcare campaign, which is expanding and improving the Suubi “Hope” Health Center in Uganda. The initiative was started by French Montana in partnership with the non-profit Mama Hope and Global Citizen after he filmed the video for his hit “Unforgettable” in Kampala. “I’ve always said my purpose is to inspire and empower the next generation to become great leaders – and to honor their hustle along the way,” Diddy tells Rolling...
David Byrne has extended his North American tour in support of his upcoming new album, American Utopia. The new set of dates begins with a performance at the first week of Coachella, followed by an April 15th show in Tuscon, Arizona. Byrne will play a string of southwest dates before returning to Coachella for week two, after which he’ll trek across North America with stops in Dallas, San Antonio, Nashville, Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, Portland and Chicago before wrapping June 9th...
The second annual Love Rocks NYC benefit concert will feature performances by Norah Jones, Mavis Staples and Gary Clark, Jr., among many others. The Whoopi Goldberg-hosted concert, which will take place at New York’s Beacon Theater on March 15th, will benefit God’s Love We Deliver, an organization that provides meals and nutrition counseling for people with sever illnesses. Other performers include Donald Fagen, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons, Emmylou Harris, Robert Cray and Hi Rhythm with Steve Jordan, Heart’s Ann Wilson,...
The Dave Matthews Band will release their first new studio album since 2012’s Away From the World, this summer. In 2017, Matthews debuted several new songs live, including “Samurai Cop.” “I think we have some great music and some stuff that Carter and I worked on that’s added to the pile,” Matthews told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “There’s a lot to choose from. I just hope I choose wisely.” In 2015, Matthews told Rolling Stone that the band was...
Jack White will embark on a North American tour this spring in support of his new solo album, Boarding House Ranch. The headlining trek kicks off April 19th at the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, Michigan and includes stops in Milwaukee, Omaha, Austin, Dallas, Houston, St. Louis, Washington D.C. and Cleveland before wrapping June 9th in Toronto, Ontario. White will also headline several festivals including Shaky Knees in Atlanta, Boston Calling in Boston and Governors Ball in New York City....
Ahead of the Grammys’ return to New York City, Eminem, 30 Seconds to Mars, the National, Childish Gambino and Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds will all stage intimate concerts at the city’s Irving Plaza the week before the annual award show. The Citi Sound Vault concerts take place from January 24th to 28th at the Manhattan venue, with tickets exclusively available to Citi cardmembers. 30 Seconds to Mars, who kick off the performances January 24th, said of playing a smaller-than-usual...
The engineer at the heart of the upcoming Waymo vs Uber trial is facing dramatic new allegations of commercial wrongdoing, this time from a former nanny. Erika Wong, who says she cared for Anthony Levandowski’s two children from December 2016 to June 2017, filed a lawsuit in California this month accusing him of breaking a long list of employment laws. The complaint alleges the failure to pay wages, labor and health code violations, and the intentional infliction of emotional distress,...
First released last year for a bevy of other platforms, Furi is all boss fights. With pounding synth-heavy music and a visual style riffing off of anime and cyberpunk, it’s an unending stream of big-bad showdowns, the sort of challenging, mano a mano fights usually served up as level or quest climaxes in other games. With sword flashing and feet dancing in time with both the music and your enemy’s moves, the game thrusts you into a series of heroic...
Prince‘s video likeness will appear onstage April 21st with a live band at the Target Center in Minneapolis. The event, Prince: Live on the Big Screen will include video and audio of “remastered and never-before-released” material. Prince’s longtime collaborators and “very special guests” will contribute to the concert, according to Prince’s estate. Prince: Live on the Big Screen takes place during a four-day event honoring the memory of Prince, who died on April 21st, 2016 at age 57. Tickets to...
The music world was rocked Monday by the unexpected death of the Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan at the age of 46. Following news of the singer’s death, famed producer Stephen Street, who worked with the Cranberries on their first two studio albums – 1993’s Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? and 1994’s No Need to Argue – penned a tribute to the singer he called “my Irish songbird” for Rolling Stone. In the remembrance, Street notes how O’Riordan...
The shocking news that Cranberries lead singer Dolores O’Riordan died from unknown causes at age 46 hit the news wires early today. The Irish group hadn’t had a very big profile in America for many years, but in the mid-1990s they scored massive hits with “Dreams,” “Linger,” Zombie” and “Salvation.” They were so inescapable in that time they even got a nod in Clueless when rich kid Elton raised his hand in Mr. Hall’s class and asked if he could go...
You have instant communication, on-demand entertainment, and dial-up transportation—why should you have to wait nine months to see what kind of baby you’re going to have? Now there’s an app for that. In a modern-day reboot of Lindsay Bluth’s “Mommy What Will I Look Like” business venture, Denver-based startup HumanCode has introduced BabyGlimpse. It’s a $259 test that uses DNA from each member of a couple to predict how their future child might look and act—from skin, hair, and eye...
Dolores O’Riordan, lead singer of the Irish alternative band the Cranberries, died Monday in London. She was 46. The band’s publicist confirmed O’Riordan’s death in a brief statement, “Irish and international singer Dolores O’Riordan has died suddenly in London today. She was 46 years old. The lead singer with the Irish band The Cranberries was in London for a short recording session.” The statement continued, “No further details are available at this time. Family members are devastated to hear...
Jimi Hendrix collaborators explain how they put together ‘Both Sides of the Sky,’ which completes a trilogy of posthumous studio albums. Chuck Boyd/ © Authentic Hendrix, LLC The last two years of Jimi Hendrix‘s life were a time of constant change. After releasing a final studio album, 1968’s Electric Ladyland, the Jimi Hendrix Experience broke up, and the guitarist faced litigation over a contract he’d signed before he was famous. To fulfill the terms of the agreement, he put out...
Halsey fulfilled “the biggest of all dreams” when the singer served as musical guest on the Sam Rockwell-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live. The singer performed to cuts off her latest LP Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, first delivering the single “Bad at Love” before bringing out rapper (and Halsey’s boyfriend) G-Eazy for their hit “Him & I,” with the duo performing the first half of the song behind a steamed-up window on the Studio 8H stage. Halsey later tweeted of the...
Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard and his band Calpurnia performed Friday night at Brooklyn’s Rough Trade NYC, where the group played a gig mixed with both covers and originals off Calpurnia upcoming EP. In this Rolling Stone video, Calpurnia deliver their rendition Velvet Underground’s “Here She Comes Now,” the White Light/White Heat cut that was also covered by Nirvana. Calpurnia’s boisterous take bridges those two versions, with Wolfhard encouraging the crowd to dance during the choruses. “This...
A television spinoff of Keanu Reeves’ assassin action series John Wick is in the works at Starz. The series is titled The Continental and revolves around the clandestine hotel that Wick and other hit men frequent and turn to as safe harbor in the two John Wick films. Reeves will executive produce and reprise his role of Wick in the series, although he will only appear on as opposed to star in The Continental, the Hollywood Reporter writes. “This series...
San Francisco singer-songwriter, Rozzi, emotes about romantic tribulations in her new piano ballad, “Uphill Battle.” “I cried on your shoulder right there in the kitchen/ My friends in the next room, so close they could listen,” she croons over a minor chord. Rozzi’s intense vibrato builds alongside organ and drums. “I am who I am, and I am a lot to handle/ You do the best you can, but I am an uphill battle.” Rozzi has said the song comes from...
