The Haden Triplets – siblings Petra, Rachel, and Tanya – offer another sneak peek of their forthcoming LP, The Family Songbook, with the heavy-hearted “Every Time I Try,” accompanied by a video that pays tribute to syndicated country-music television programs that were popular weekend viewing from the Fifties to the …
Read More »Niall Horan Gets Emotional on New Single 'Put a Little Love on Me'
Niall Horan has dropped a brand-new single “Put a Little Love on Me” along with an accompanying music video. The video, shot in Los Angeles with director Cameron Busby, sees Horan performing the emotional track at a grand piano as a red-clad dancer spins around him. Horan wrote the song …
Read More »Radiohead Guitarist Ed O'Brien Unveils Trippy Video For 'Brasil'
Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien has released a nine-minute video for his song “Brasil,” which will appear on his debut solo LP some time in early 2020. The trippy film, directed by Andrew Donoho, shows people all over the globe uniting as one after some sort of extraterrestrial phenomenon touches down …
Read More »Chris Martin: The Rolling Stone Interview
Chris Martin is famously press-shy. “You play your cards close to the vest,” Rolling Stone founder and editorial director Jann S. Wenner observes in this sit-down, filmed recently in New York City. “I try to,” Martin admits. But for one of the only interviews he’s doing around the release of …
Read More »Watch Megan Thee Stallion Rip Through Her NPR Tiny Desk Concert
Last month, Megan Thee Stallion performed a special Tiny Desk Concert for NPR‘s Tiny Desk Fest, a four-day series of extended performances at the radio’s coveted pint-sized stage. On Monday, NPR finally shared the video of the Houston rapper’s 25-minute set, performed with Brooklyn jazz band Phony Ppl. Even though …
Read More »Girl Ultra Thinks the 'Latin Boom' Is a Myth
There’s never been a more opportune time for Latinx artists to impact contemporary R&B than right now. Not that Latinos in R&B are an entirely new phenomenon — as evidenced by old school Chicano Soul artists like the Royal Jesters, or proto-rockeros Cannibal and the Headhunters, who once toured with …
Read More »Kanye West's Fevered 'Nebuchadnezzar'
Living in Los Angeles in 2019 means that every couple of weeks you’ll be summoned somewhere only coyotes and executive producers live to hear whatever Kanye West has been learning about in Bible study. This time it’s the Book of Daniel; this time it’s being staged as an opera; this …
Read More »Watch Elizabeth Warren Escape Haunted Submarine With Desus and Mero
Elizabeth Warren helped Desus and Mero thwart an evil ghost and escape a haunted submarine during a visit to an escape room on Desus and Mero Thursday. The trio aptly dubbed their team “Future Presidents of America,” and were tasked with solving puzzles in three different rooms in one hour, …
Read More »Beck Reveals 'I'm Not a Scientologist' in New Interview
Beck, long considered one of the most prominent musicians associated with the Church of Scientology, has revealed in a new interview that he no longer is a member of the controversial organization. Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald on the day his new album Hyperspace was released, Beck told the …
Read More »Bon Iver Embrace Magical Healing in New 'Naeem' Video
Bon Iver unveiled a moving and somewhat mystical new music video for “Naeem,” off their latest (and Grammy-nominated) album, i, i. The clip was directed by AG Rojas and marks Bon Iver’s first official, non-lyrical music video since 2012’s “Beth/Rest.” In a statement, Rojas said, “‘Naeem’ is concerned with the …
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