Throughout the mid-2000s, Emmy Award-winning makeover show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy enriched the lives of many a slovenly New York resident. Yet over a decade since its final season, the show got a more flexible reboot in the 2018 series Queer Eye, which debuted this Feburary on Netflix. Now set in the lush state of Georgia, a new generation of pals with roots in This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: The ‘Queer Eye’ Cast Selects Five Fab Songs for...
Keyboardist Peter CottonTale, Chance the Rapper‘s longtime collaborator in the Social Experiment, recruited the emcee for his breezy, soulful new song “Forever Always.” Daniel Caesar, Rex Orange County, Madison Ryann Ward and Yebba also appear on the all-star track. This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Chance the Rapper Joins Peter CottonTale on New Song ‘Forever...
Coheed and Cambria have detailed their upcoming concept album The Unheavenly Creatures, a sprawling 78-minute, 15-song LP that continues the narrative set forth in the band’s Amory Wars narrative. The band previously trumpeted their upcoming album, Coheed and Cambria’s first since 2015’s This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Coheed and Cambria Detail New Album ‘The Unheavenly...
EDITORS’ PICK: The Carters, Everything Is Love“Everything is Love is the refreshing final chapter in a trilogy of albums that includes Beyoncé’s unburdening 2016 odyssey Lemonade and Jay-Z’s 2017 This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: 10 New Albums to Stream Now: The Carters, Nine Inch Nails, Kamasi Washington and More Editors’...
Jackson family patriarch Joe Jackson is battling terminal cancer in a Los Angeles hospital, reports Variety. According to the Daily Mail, Joe Jackson is currently bedridden with stage four pancreatic cancer and his condition is rapidly deteriorating. The tabloid This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Jackson Family Patriarch Joe Jackson Battling Terminal...
In 1992, music-industry legend Irving Azoff went out for ice cream with Gunter Ford, manager of the Florida death-metal band Morbid Angel, to discuss a possible signing. “The actual negotiations took 10 minutes,” Ford told author Albert Mudrian in the extreme-metal history Choosing Death. “Irving asked me what kind of ice cream I wanted and we finished the deal.” It was official: Ford’s This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Morbid Angel’s ‘Covenant’: How the Band’s Major...
“Please feel free to be whoever it is you choose to be in this room tonight,” Harry Styles told the crowd at his sold-out show at New York’s Madison Square Garden Thursday night, as he strummed his guitar. The guy takes his own advice. He draped himself in This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Harry Styles Brings Rock-Star Swagger, Pop Joy to Madison Square...
Foo Fighters helped James Corden close out the Late Late Show‘s weeklong visit to London with a riveting performance of the band’s “Best of You” live from the Central Hall Westminster. Before Dave Grohl and company rocked the stage – and after This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Foo Fighters’ Riveting Rendition of ‘Best of You’ on...
Iggy Pop and the long-running electronic music duo Underworld recorded a four-song EP, Teatime Dub Encounters, which will come out July 27th. A just-released track from the project, “I’ll See Big,” finds Pop narrating This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Iggy Pop Parses Friendship on Cinematic Underworld...
EDM trio Cheat Codes enlisted British pop group Little Mix for their new single “Only You.” The singers croon about how lonely they are (“Dancing with your silhouette in the places that we met,” they try’na find you in the moon”) over rippling electric guitar, pitch-shifted vocal samples and skittering electronic drums. In a statement, Cheat Codes described the song as telling “a This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Cheat Codes Tap Little Mix for New EDM Jam ‘Only...
Paul Simon announced plans earlier this week to wrap up his farewell concert on September 22nd with a massive outdoor show at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, New York. Simon grew up in the borough and has lived in the city for much of This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Flashback: Paul Simon Plays ‘The Boxer’ at His 1991 Central Park...
Dave Matthews applied his acoustic stylings to songs by Cardi B, Migos and Lil Pump in a Tonight Show sketch where the bandleader performed some of trap music’s biggest hits. Framed as one of those Time-Life infomercials, the elaborate premise allowed Matthews to run through snippets of This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Dave Matthews Cover Cardi B, Migos in ‘Fallon’...
Summer is no time for a vacation when you’re Charli XCX. From now through late November, the U.K. singer is holding down one of the most coveted spots in pop as one of two opening acts on Taylor Swift’s Reputation tour, alongside her friend Camila Cabello. “We’re such an interesting lineup of girls in control of their own shit,” Charli says. “It feels good.” Pop fans first met This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Charli XCX Is Having More Fun...
Nile Rodgers & Chic team with Vic Mensa on their new single “Till the World Falls,” the latest preview off It’s About Time, the legendary funk band’s first album in 26 years. Like “ This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Hear Nile Rodgers & Chic Team With Vic Mensa on Ecstatic ‘Till the World...
Gorillaz mix West Coast vibes with dark-wave funk on their new song “Hollywood,” featuring Snoop Dogg and Chicago house legend Jamie Principle. The track will appear on the animated outfit’s upcoming album The Now Now, out June 29th. “Hollywood” is filled with guttural synths and thumping This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Hear Gorillaz, Snoop Dogg Deliver Dark Funk on...
On a recent Thursday, Grand Wizzard Theodore was busy DJing in his home borough of the Bronx. Theodore is widely acknowledged as the man who invented turntable scratching, so his presence behind the decks was not unusual. The venue, however, was unexpected: The Cornerstone Academy for Social Action – a middle school, where Theodore’s selections were soundtracking furious This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: How One Man Is Using Hip-Hop to Diversify...
A new Elvis compilation, Where No One Stands Alone, will highlight the rock legend’s love of gospel music and feature contributions from Lisa Marie Presley, This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: New Elvis Gospel Compilation Features Lisa Marie Presley, Darlene...
The affiliations that led to Kamasi Washington becoming the most talked-about jazz musician in recent memory can obscure what his music actually sounds like. Sure, he played on Kendrick’s Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly and put out his breakthrough triple LP, 2015’s The This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Kamasi Washington’s New ‘Heaven and Earth’ is Another Sprawling, Style-Hopping...
Elisabeth Moss spends a night wandering desolate city streets in the new video for “On the Nature of Daylight,” a composition by contemporary classical composer Max Richter. “On This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Elisabeth Moss Goes on Emotional Journey in New Max Richter...
Lil Xan and Charli XCX have a late-night romance in a gritty motel in the new video for “Moonlight.” The single appears on the rapper’s debut album Total Xanarchy. Lil Xan released Total Xanarchy in April. The album hit Number Ten on the Billboard 200 and also features guest This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Lil Xan, Charli XCX Flex Under the ‘Moonlight’ in New...