Following the April 6th release of her daring country pop album, Golden, Australian pop queen Kylie Minogue paid a quick visit to New York on Wednesday night, performing on ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers.’ Donning a golden floor-length dress, the singer performed her lead single, the honky-tonk disco gem “Dancing,” with a live band. She also performed a stripped-down version This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Kylie Minogue Flaunt Country Pop Hit ‘Dancing’ on ‘Seth...
Keith Urban has spent the past several years cementing his role as one of country music’s most genre-flexible veterans, teaming up with everyone from Pitbull to Kanye producer Jeff Bhasker on his 2016 smash Ripcord. Urban searches for crossover magic once again on Graffiti U, collaborating with a battalion of pop powerhouses including Ed Sheeran, Julia Michaels, Nate Ruess and This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Keith Urban’s ‘Graffiti U’ Is the Work of an Eclectic, Enlightened...
Tim Bergling, the Swedish DJ-producer who performed as Avicii, died of an apparent suicide. Bergling’s family shared a statement about the musician’s death, saying, “He really struggled with thoughts about meaning, life, happiness. He could not go on any longer. He wanted to This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Avicii Died From Apparent...
When Kanye West was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2010, Elon Musk, who wrote the blurb about the rapper-producer-designer, noted that he “fought for his place in the cultural pantheon with a purpose.” Of all his varied talents, arguably West’s most useful one has been his ability to This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Why Kanye West’s Pro-Trump Tweets Are a Real...
Run the Jewels performed their poignant track “Thursday in the Danger Room” on Wednesday’s Late Show. After El-P dedicated the song “to anyone who lost their life too soon,” he and Killer Mike unfurled dizzying This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Run the Jewels Perform ‘Thursday in the Danger Room’ on...
Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain first got the idea for his book Don’t Stop Believin’: The Man, the Band, and the Song That Inspired Generations (in stores May 1st) while traveling This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Journey Keyboardist Jonathan Cain’s New Memoir: 10 Things We...
Janelle Monáe is crying in her spacesuit. It’s early April in Atlanta, and she’s in one of the basement studios of her Wondaland Records headquarters, surrounded by computer monitors and TV screens, one of them running a screensaver that displays images of her heroes: Prince, Martin Luther King Jr., Pam Grier, Tina Turner, Lupita Nyong’o, David Bowie. She’s about to reveal, for the first time, This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Janelle Monáe Frees...
Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Booker T. Jones will be releasing his long-awaited memoir this fall. The leader of the Stax Records house band and Memphis soul legend’s as-yet-untitled tome is projected for release this fall via Little, Brown and Company. An audiobook version This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Booker T. Jones’ New Memoir to Be Released This...
Two weeks after Meek Mill spoke with Lester Holt from prison, he returned to NBC Nightly News for a second interview. Only this time, he was a free man: On Tuesday, the This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Meek Mill: ‘I Don’t Feel Free’ After Release from Prison on...
All 415 present members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to pass the Music Modernization Act, a mega bill that aims to radically improve and streamline the system through which music creators are paid. As passed in the House, the MMA – which has garnered wide support from the music industry – would update a decades-old system of mechanical licensing, set a This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: House of Representatives Unanimously Passes Music Modernization...
Neil Young and Crazy Horse are returning after a four-year absence for a pair of shows at the Warnors Theater in Fresno, California on May 1st and May 2nd, but they’ll be playing without guitarist Frank “Poncho” Sampedro for the first time since he joined the band in 1975. E Street Band guitarist Nils Lofgren, This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Crazy Horse: Nils Lofgren In, ‘Poncho’ Sampedro Out as Neil Young Plots New...
Stephen Malkmus returns to range life in the Jicks’ wry new Western ballad, “Refute.” With vocal assist from Kim Gordon, the song is the third single off the band’s upcoming record, Sparkle Hard, out May 18th on Matador. Riding the same wheat-chewing wave as the album’s lead single, “Middle America,” This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Kim Gordon Joins Stephen Malkmus on Nashville-Inspired New Song...
Kali Uchis celebrates the afterlife in her surreal “Get Up” video, which combines her songs “Gotta Get Up” and “Body Language.” The self-directed clip opens with the R&B singer attending her own funeral. Her eyes glow after glancing at her lifeless body in a coffin. Suddenly, she beams into a realm filled with swimming pools, rain-dancing and roses. Both tracks highlight This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Kali Uchis Dances Through Afterlife in ‘Get Up’...
Shamir Bailey has come far from where he was both musically and mentally just one year ago. Last spring, the 23-year-old Philly resident was ready to leave his recording career behind after a few years of feeling trapped in a major label deal that left him creatively stifled. While his manager and the label executives wanted more of the electro-pop direction of his This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: The Dreamer: Shamir Is Carving Out His Own Musical...
A $5 million lawsuit that accused Russell Simmons of sexual assault was dismissed Wednesday. The lawsuit was initially filed in January by filmmaker Jennifer Jarosik, This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Russell Simmons: $5 Million Sexual Assault Lawsuit...
Dave Matthews Band will release their ninth studio album, Come Tomorrow, on June 8th via RCA Records. The group has yet to detail a tracklist for the LP, which follows their chart-topping 2012 set, This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Dave Matthews Band Prep First LP in Six Years, ‘Come...
There’s a 1978 interview with Eddie Money, the radio-staple rocker whose biggest hits still adorn every classic-rock station and outdoor bar serving Mai Tais and Bahama Mamas, on YouTube that perfectly sums up the “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Take Me Home Tonight” singer. The Long Island–via–Brooklyn musician was This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Eddie Money: Rock’s Rodney Dangerfield...
Father John Misty has shared his disorienting new video for “Mr. Tillman,” the first single off his upcoming new album God’s Favorite Customer. Just as the song’s lyrics zero in on the singer’s unpleasant experience at a hotel, the “Mr. Tillman” video is like The Shining meets This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: ‘The Shining’ Meets ‘Hotel California’ in Father John Misty’s ‘Mr. Tillman’...
It’s ironic that social media jerks tease Jermaine Cole with “J. Cole went platinum with no features.” Once seen as an understudy to generational talents like Kendrick Lamar and Drake, the North Carolina musician didn’t reach artistic fruition until 2014 Forest Hills Drive, when he abandoned the typical cameo-heavy big-budget formula for an idiosyncratic, self-produced organic sound This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: J. Cole’s ‘K.O.D’ Is a Tough, Rewarding Meditation on...
Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon dubbed Questlove a “human Shazam” on Tuesday’s episode, and the Roots drummer backed up that lofty title during a jaw-dropping Prince edition of “One Second Song Quiz.” Fallon played the This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: ‘Human Shazam’ Questlove Identifies Prince Songs From Second-Long...