On the heels of the release of his Bobby Tarantino II mixtape earlier this month, Logic announced a 33-date headlining tour. NF and Kyle will open for Grammy-nominated rapper on all the dates. Logic’s tour will kick off on June 8th in Boston and wrap on August 3rd in St. Louis, Missouri. Along the way, he will play iconic venues such as Madison Square Garden in New York City and the Forum in Los Angeles. Tickets will go on sale on...
Neil Young plays the Clint Eastwood-style “Man in the Black Hat” in the upcoming film Paradox, which also features the members of his backing band the Promise of the Real. A trailer for the Daryl Hannah-directed film shows Young and brothers Micah and Lukas Nelson (who portray the “Particle Kid” and “Jail Time,” respectively) hiding out on a mountain range. In a Sergio Leone-esque sequence, one of the Nelsons says in voiceover, “The Man in the Black Hat, I heard...
Craig Mack, the rapper who had the very first hit on P. Diddy’s iconic hip-hop label Bad Boy Records, died on Monday. He was 46. According to the New York Daily News, the rapper died of heart failure at his Walterboro, South Carolina home. His death was confirmed by the rapper’s former producer Alvin Toney. Mack is best known for the indelible classic “Flava in Ya Ear,” – a top 10 hit in 1994 that sold over a million copies – and its...
Neil Young and his backing band, Promise of the Real, will release the soundtrack to their upcoming Western film, Paradox on March 23rd via Reprise Records. The album features Young performing in several configurations: with Promise of the Real, with an orchestra recorded on the MGM Soundstage, solo on electric guitar and in a line-up featuring drummer Jim Keltner and bassist Paul Bushnell. (A press release also cites the contribution of “Joe Yankee,” presumably the pseudonym of Young, who has often...
Rae Sremmurd‘s opulent new video for “Powerglide,” featuring Juicy J, shows the Mississippi brothers joyriding through a parking garage and preening on a rooftop flanked by models. The whole production is over-the-top. A helicopter even shines a spotlight on the rappers like a blockbuster action movie. The song will appear on the duo’s upcoming third LP, SR3MM, alongside lead single “T’d Up.” Rae Sremmurd’s Slim Jxmmi and Swae Lee also released individual singles, “Brxnks Truck”...
Juelz Santana was arrested on drug and weapon charges Monday, two days after the rapper fled a Newark airport after TSA discovered a loaded gun in his carry-on bag. Santana surrendered to police following the incident. The Dipset rapper faces unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of a controlled dangerous substance as well as an unspecified federal warrant, TMZ reports. NJ.com added that Santana was also charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and carrying a...
Arctic Monkeys announced a North American summer tour. The brief trek launches May 5th with a date at Los Angeles’s Hollywood Forever Cemetery. After a series of European shows, the indie rockers will perform a headlining slot at Delaware’s Firefly Festival, followed by nine more concerts in the U.S. and Canada. Tickets for the new North American shows go on sale Friday, March 16th at 10 a.m. Additional information is available at the band’s website. The quartet last performed in...
Rob Sheffield weighs in on Ryan H. Walsh’s excellent new book ‘Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968,’ which explores Van Morrison’s classic album. Dick Iacovello/Courtesy of MONTUSE In the summer of 1968, Van Morrison was a rock & roll refugee, an Irish blues poet on the run from his homeland after a bitter fling with pop stardom. He wound up down and out in Boston, where he wrote the songs that became one of rock’s most beloved masterworks, Astral...
Alice Cooper announced a headlining North American tour behind his 27th studio album, 2017’s Paranormal. The summer trek, dubbed “A Paranormal Evening With Alice Cooper,” launches August 3rd at the Wisconsin State Fair in West Allis, Wisconsin and wraps September 7th at the York Fair in York, Pennsylvania. Former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley will join as a special guest for two shows: August 10th in Las Vegas and August 12th in Los Angeles. Further information including ticket sale dates and...
Sidi Touré, Toubalbero | ★★★ 1/2BKO, Mali Foli Coura | ★★★ 1/2Tal National, Tantabara | ★★★★Imarhan, Temet | ★★★ With American rock bands looking to forward-thinking EDM and elsewhere for genre rejuvenation, African electric guitars and traditional instruments alike are once again yawping, screaming and blurting with new intensity after something of a genre hiatus. Over there, the romantic scenario of picking up chops down at the crossroads has...
Following a series of rumors and retracted concert listings, Beyoncé and Jay-Z officially announced the OTR II stadium tour – a follow-up to their massive joint On the Run trek from 2014, which promoted the singer’s self-titled LP and the rapper’s Magna Carta Holy Grail. Following a 15-date European leg in June, OTR II comes to North America beginning July 25th with a Cleveland concert. The 21-show North American leg concludes October 2nd in Vancouver. Tickets for the trek go on...
Paul Simon extended his farewell tour with additional North American dates. The Homeward Bound trek now includes concerts throughout September, concluding with a trio of New York City shows. Tickets for eight of the 11 shows go on sale Friday, March 16th at 10 a.m. local time. The Newark, New Jersey concert goes on sale on the 16th at 9 a.m. The New Orleans date follows Saturday, March 17th at 10 a.m., with the Washington D.C. show available Saturday, March...
Nick Gordon, the former boyfriend of the Bobbi Kristina Brown and the man found “legally responsible” for the death of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston’s daughter, was arrested Saturday in Florida on a domestic violence charge. According to the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office, Gordon was arrested on one charge of “battery — touch or strike.” After posting a $500 bail, Gordon will appear in court on April 6th. The arrest marked the second time in the past year that police...
Gary Burden, the Grammy-winning artist who designed iconic album covers for musicians like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, the Doors and My Morning Jacket, has died at the age of 84. No cause of death was revealed. Young penned a tribute to Burden on the rocker’s Archives website, reflecting on a collaboration and friendship that spanned over five decades. “My friend for life, Gary was my art director, creating album covers with me for almost 50 years, beginning with After the...
David Byrne performed his American Utopia song “Everybody’s Coming to My House” with help from Stephen Colbert on This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: See David Byrne Perform ‘Everybody’s Coming to My House’ With Stephen...
The life and career of Whitney Houston will be the focus of an upcoming documentary made with the approval of the legendary singer’s estate. Directed by Kevin Macdonald, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind One Day in September and the Bob Marley documentary Marley, Whitney features “previously This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Estate-Approved Whitney Houston Doc Boasts Unreleased...
Ed Schrader’s Music Beat released the gleeful new video for “Riddles,” the title track of their buzzy third album, produced by avant-garde composer Dan Deacon. The video, directed by Jay Buim, opens like a Baltimore film noir. Beneath the glow of a streetlamp, singer Ed Schrader and bassist Devlin Rice trudge to local venue, the Crown, looking beleaguered in their suit and ties. But as the jittery piano converges with Rice’s bass, the scene morphs into a ragtag parallel universe...
America’s unhinged hormone warriors are never going to stop fighting for their right to party. Still, it’s not too late to protest the viral contagion that has selected Tekashi 6ix9ine’s Day 69 as the new soundtrack for that crucial rite of passage. Born Daniel Hernandez in Bushwick, Brooklyn, the 21-year-old rapper is the latest heat rock to skip across the ISPs of boundary-testing, (mostly male) adolescent music fans. But with this debut mixtape (which debuted in the Top Five of...
Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, Tearing at the SeamsThe R&B revivalist’s second album “doubles down on roadhouse retro,” writes David Browne, adding the occasional electronic flourish and copious references to Leonard Cohen to their Southern-fried sound. “Even when he overshoots,” Browne writes, “Rateliff’s restless throwback sound feels like it’s moving toward real revelations. You’d have to think his mama would be proud.”Read Our Review: Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night...
Judas Priest released a brooding new video for “Spectre,” a headbanger from their newly issued 18th LP, Firepower. The metal legends perform against a black backdrop throughout the clip, interspersed with foreboding shots of thunderstorms, snakes, blazing fires, mushroom clouds and surveillance footage of city streets. Firepower, out today, also features the singles “Never the Heroes,” “Lightning Strike” and the title track. The album marks the second studio appearance from guitarist Richie Faulkner (who...
