Category: Music
Chance the Rapper has shared another new song that doubles as an interdisciplinary art piece, as press materials describe it. The video for “A Bar About a Bar” stars Chance and Vic Mensa doing writing exercises together while Chicago-based painter Nikko Washington works in the background. As Chance raps his …
Superheroes and horror aren’t the only game in town anymore at the pandemic-era box office. In a promising sign for the summer season, Paramount and Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick scored the best Memorial Day opening of all time with a projected three-day domestic haul of $126.7 million and $156 million …
False reports of an active shooter sent fans into a panic early Sunday morning (May 29) during a boxing match at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Approximately 10 people were injured and taken to the hospital after a loud noise was heard inside 19,000-capacity arena, causing attendees to …
Happy birthday to Thomas Stanley Holland, Short King, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, everyone’s favorite golden retriever come to life, and multi-hyphenate talent. Tom Holland is a well of goodness and the gift that seems to just keep giving, whether it’s onscreen or in his daily life as one half of Tomdaya …
Bruce Hornsby has enlisted Haim singer-guitarist Danielle Haim for a new song titled “Days Ahead.” The track comes with a music video that Hornsby directed and filmed himself during the pandemic. In the clip, 3D-printed characters can be seen rearranging furniture in a dollhouse, attempting to learn German, and pondering …
of Montreal have announced their 18th album, Freewave Lucifer fck. It arrives on July 29th via Polyvinyl Records and will be followed by a North American headlining tour. The album reflects the isolation of bandleader and overall mastermind Kevin Barnes in the prevailing quarantine conditions felt during the COVID-19 pandemic. …
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced their first new music since 2013’s Mosquito. The indie rock trio’s new single, “Spitting Off the Edge of the World,” featuring Perfume Genius, arrives Wednesday, June 1, via Secretly Canadian. The band will preview the song and video at Brooklyn’s Main Drag Music, where it …
Harry Styles’ Harry’s House debuts atop the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated June 4) with a massive 521,500 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 26, according to Luminate. It’s the largest week of 2022 for any album and only the fourth album in the …
Isaiah Rashad sat down for an interview with Joe Budden that got released on the rapper and media personality’s Patreon yesterday (May 26). During the interview, as Rolling Stone notes, Rashad said he is “sexually fluid” and also addressed the leaked video of him having intimate physical encounters with men. …
John Lydon, who fronted Sex Pistols as Johnny Rotten and who has done everything in his power to continue to deserve that nickname, hates director Danny Boyle’s new miniseries Pistol. He hated it as soon as it was announced, he hated it during court battles over the rights to the music, and now that Hulu …
Wolfgang Van Halen is seething over Reelz’ upcoming episode of its documentary series Autopsy: The Last Hours of …, which focuses on his late father, Eddie Van Halen. The episode is set to premiere this Sunday, June 5th, and Wolfgang is urging people not to watch it while also lambasting …
Neil Young is continuing to dig into his vaults. On July 8, he’ll release the shelved Crazy Horse album Toast via Reprise. Young and Crazy Horse recorded the album in 2001 at Toast Studios in San Francisco. Below, listen to the record’s “Standing in the Light of Love.” “Toast is …
Over the last decade and a half, Bring Me the Horizon have cemented themselves as a household name within the heavy music community, but they weren’t always so well-respected. Oli Sykes recalled that when the band was first gaining popularity, they were portrayed “as a Motley Crue-esque bunch of fucking dickheads.” The …
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Chris Parnell joins Kyle Meredith to talk about Senior Year, the new Netflix movie that stars Rebel Wilson as a high school cheerleader who wakes up from a 20 year coma to go back to school with her 2002 …
Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner threw out the first pitch at Citi Field tonight, opening the Mets’ game against the Philadelphia Phillies. She wore a custom #69 jersey with “JBREKKIE” stitched on the back. Zauner tweeted that she wore Phillies socks with the ensemble, too. See her partake in the American …
Rina Sawayama has announced her new album, Hold the Girl, out September 2nd, 2022. The Japanese-British artist didn’t reveal much else in the way of details except for a brief, abstract teaser trailer. Watch it below. Update: Check out the album’s lead single, “This Hell.” Hold the Girl marks the …
Arcade Fire brought the confetti for their celebratory performance of “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)” at the 2022 Juno Awards on Sunday. Watch the performance below. The Canadian collective played the latest single from their sixth album WE sans the swaying, inflatable dancers that debuted at Arcade Fire’s surprise Coachella set …
Ronnie Hawkins, the larger-than-life Arkansas-born rockabilly singer who called Canada home for more than 60 years, died Sunday morning (May 29) after a lengthy illness. He was 87. Hawkins, also known as The Hawk or Rompin’ Ronnie, had an ear for talent. His band The Hawks — which he originally …
A good majority of musicians give back to charity, however, some rockers have taken it to the next level and created annual events to benefit causes that are close to their hearts. Although music is a common thread and concerts are a typical fundraiser, some of the annual benefits include …
Ronnie Hawkins—the rockabilly star whose group the Hawks at one point featured pre-fame members of the Band—has died, CBC reports. Hawkins’ wife Wanda confirmed to the Canadian press that her husband died early this morning (May 29) following a long illness. “He went peacefully and he looked as handsome as …
SEVENTEEN’s highly anticipated album, Face the Sun, has topped this week’s new music poll. Music fans voted in a poll published Friday (May 27) on Billboard, choosing the K-pop collective’s new project as their favorite new music release of the past week. Face the Sun brought in 94% of the …
Agony In The Garden’s inception occurred on April of 2013 as a one man band with singer/songwriter multi-instrumentalist Mack Perry writing and recording all of Agony’s music. Releasing a debut four song EP, “Where Olympus Dwells,” in May, 2015. In Feb. 2016 Mack and Clint Lowery of Grammy Nominated Sevendust …
Primus had a couple of potentially intimidating fans on Friday (May 14th) at Toronto’s Massey Hall, where Rush members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson were in attendance. After all, Primus are paying tribute to Rush during this tour, but it appears they didn’t disappoint the prog-rock legends. Primus have been …
The Chainsmokers are back with their first new album in three years, So Far So Good. Out today (May 13) via Disruptor Records/Columbia Records, the 13-track album — the duo’s fourth studio LP — follows its already out singles “High,” “iPad” and “Riptide.” It also follows the duo’s 2019 LP, …
KISS have been around for nearly five decades now, and they’re currently in the midst of their final tour. While Gene Simmons has admitted that he’s going to be very emotional during their last show, he assured that the band is retiring out of self-respect and love for their fans. “The …
May marks the anniversary of Foo Fighters’ The Colour and the Shape, a monumental album for the band and rock music in general—particularly with the track “Everlong,” a rare epic rock love song that became one of the most iconic rock songs of the past quarter century. It’s a song that …
On the eve of the release of their new album, Headful of Sugar — and drummer Olive Faber’s birthday, no less — Sunflower Bean finally got to headline one of their hometown’s biggest venues: Webster Hall. (Get tickets for the rest of their upcoming headlining dates here.) The setlist featured …
Lil Nas X is going on tour in support of his debut album Montero. The North American leg of the Long Live Montero Tour takes place in September and October. The musician will then play shows in Europe and the United Kingdom in November. Find Lil Nas X’s tour dates, …
The B-52’s have announced a farewell tour, which begins in Seattle on August 22. It wraps up in mid-November in Atlanta, with the Tubes and KC & The Sunshine Band taking support slots along the way. See the full schedule below. In the fall of 2019, band member Fred Schneider …
Chris Kysor is the artist behind the painting on the cover of David Berman’s 1998 Silver Jews classic American Water. Today, starting at 12 p.m. Eastern, Kysor is selling prints and new painting reproductions of that artwork for the first time. In addition to a limited edition run of 225 …