Korn frontman Jonathan Davis detailed the title and release date of his upcoming debut solo LP. Black Labyrinth is out May 25th via Sumerian Records. The singer also revealed the album’s track list This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Korn’s Jonathan Davis Details Solo LP ‘Black Labyrinth’ With Song...
Josh Homme and a severed green hand flipping the bird leads his Queens of the Stone Age through any number of kitschy frights in the animated video for “Head Like a Haunted House,” a track off last year’s This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: See Queens of the Stone Age’s Whimsical Fright Fest in ‘Haunted House’...
Bleachers‘ Jack Antonoff struggles to land the perfect rom-com kiss in the playful video for “Alfie’s Song (Not So Typical Love Song),” his single from the recently issued This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Bleachers’ Jack Antonoff in Rom-Com-Spoofing ‘Alfie’s Song’...
Courtney Marie AndrewsMarch 17th, Cheer Up CharliesCourtney Marie Andrews tends to lean into the melancholy undercurrents that run through her music, but the ethereal air that characterized both 2016’s Honest Life and the new May Your Kindness Remain lifts when she performs onstage. Her late-afternoon set at Cheer Up Charlies’ indoor stage on Saturday – her last of This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: SXSW 2018: 30 Best Artists We Saw at the Austin...
A film version of the London production of Lazarus, the musical that was one of David Bowie‘s last works, will get a special screening in Brooklyn this spring with a live This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Film of David Bowie’s ‘Lazarus’ Musical to Get Live...
Jay-Z‘s Roc Nation has thrown their support behind a new app that aims to reduce incarceration and recidivism in the criminal justice system. Promise, an app co-founded by social entrepreneur and former Prince manager Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, hopes “to create a sustainable and scalable program that will reduce the number of This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Jay-Z’s Roc Nation Supports App to Improve Criminal Justice...
Big Boi has announced a new round of U.S. tour dates. The third leg of his ongoing “Daddy Fat Saxxx” jaunt launches May 17th in St. Louis, Missouri and concludes June 8th in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. Tickets are currently on sale via the rapper’s This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Big Boi Extends U.S. Tour With 16 New...
Last year, post-punk firebrands Wire celebrated their 40th anniversary with a tour; now they’re marking their legacy with a set of retrospective releases. Beginning this spring, the group will be releasing special and deluxe editions of its earliest works – first with a box set of nine seven-inches, Nine This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Hear Wire’s Rare, Poppy ‘Outdoor Miner’ Single...
Blink-182 are headed to Las Vegas. The pop-punk trio have inked a deal with the Palms Casino Resort for a 16-date residency dubbed “Kings of the Weekend” that will begin May 26th and run on select weekends through November 17th. “When the Palms asked us to do a residency here in Vegas, we said This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Blink-182 to Launch Las Vegas...
Fifth Harmony have announced an indefinite hiatus to pursue individual solo careers. The news comes nearly a year and a half after parting ways with member Camila Cabello, who released her debut solo album in January. “Reflecting on the past six years since we This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Fifth Harmony Announce Indefinite Hiatus to ‘Pursue Solo...
Logic lodged his second career Number One album as the rapper’s Bobby Tarantino II debuted atop the Billboard 200, selling 119,000 total copies and ending Black Panther: The Album‘s reign. Of Bobby Tarantino II‘s haul, only 32,000 copies were derived from traditional album sales, with streaming equivalent albums, or SEAs, accumulating 82,000 of the total, This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: On the Charts: Logic Opens at Number One, David Byrne Hits New...
Arcade Fire returned to Saturday Night Live to perform two songs off their 2017 album Everything This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: See Arcade Fire Deliver ‘Everything Now’ Songs in ‘SNL’...
The Roots were forced to cancel their South by Southwest “Roots and Friends” show Saturday night after a bomb threat was reported. “The Bud Light x The Roots SXSW Jam at Fair Market has been canceled,” organizers wrote on the festival’s Twitter page. “We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.” A representative for Austin Police Department did not immediately reply to a request for comment. A rep for South by Southwest referred Rolling Stone to Anheuser-Busch, the...
Aretha Franklin canceled a pair of upcoming concerts, including a headlining gig at New Orleans’ Jazz Fest, after her doctor recommended that the Queen of Soul take a break from touring. “Aretha Franklin has been ordered by her doctor to stay off the road and rest completely for at least the next two months,” Franklin’s management sent in a statement. “She is extremely disappointed she cannot perform at this year’s New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival as she had expected...
Toni Braxton returns to familiar territory, singing about mistrust and infidelity over dramatic piano chords on her new single, “Sex & Cigarettes.” “Tell me how am I supposed to trust you/ When I can never tell just where the hell you been?” the R&B singer belts. “Am I supposed to lie alone to suffer?/ But you can’t expect for me to just pretend.” Braxton asks her lover to hide his cheating instead of brazenly arriving “straight to our bed, smelling like...
“You can’t forget your fruit snacks,” says Rich Homie Quan, detailing the perfect studio atmosphere. “My buddies, Hennessy, weed, engineer, fruit snacks. Ain’t no telling what we’ll come up with.” The rising rapper gives Rolling Stone an inside look at his creative process in the latest installment of our behind-the-scenes video series, Levels. The emcee highlights his “feel-good” mindset and spur-of-the-moment flow on “Changed,” the lead single from his upcoming debut LP, Rich...
The titular duo from Rick and Morty embark on a trademark inter-dimensional adventure – with a Quentin Tarantino-style twist – in Run the Jewels‘ new animated video for “Oh Mama.” The clip promotes the rap duo’s appearance at the first-ever Adult Swim Festival, scheduled for October 6th and 7th at the ROW DTLA development in downtown Los Angeles. Juan Meza-León – a Rick and Morty director and storyboard artist – helmed the hilarious clip. In the video, the ever-drooling mad...
The Decemberists do a very particular thing – darkly ornate, literary-minded, self-consciously verbose Anglophile prog-folk-rock – exceedingly well, so well that you can’t blame ’em for wanting to do something else. They do just that on I’ll Be Your Girl, at least in parts, the upshot being, well, a re-affirmation of that particular thing they do exceedingly well. In a robust This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Decemberists Shake Up Their Artisanal Folk Rock on ‘I’ll Be...
Quelle Chris was high on mushrooms. That may not be germane to the story, exactly, but the producer/MC makes a point of bringing it up. This was a few years ago, and he was at an arcade in San Francisco (a perfectly fine place to trip). After a few rounds on some old-school fighting games, he decided to try one of the newer machines; he sat down next to a preteen playing a then-new King of Fighters game,...
Two student survivors of the Parkland, Florida shooting released an inspirational ballad to benefit victims of the tragedy. Sawyer Garrity, 16, and Andrea Peña, 15, recorded “Shine” with members of the drama department from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where a gunman killed 17 people on February 14th. Lyrically, “Shine” covers the spectrum of grief, as the students move from This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Hear Parkland Survivors’ Inspirational Song for Shooting...