Logic is hip-hop’s reigning pop culture connoisseur. For his latest video, “Everybody Dies,” the Maryland rapper recreates the underground bunker scene from 2008’s Christopher Nolan-directed Batman film, The Dark Knight, and cuts in quick shots from black and white films throughout the video. Logic also raps, “Had a lot of …
Read More »Father John Misty Readies 'Live At Third Man Records' LP
Father John Misty‘s surprise concert at Nashville’s Third Man Records in September 2017 will be documented on an upcoming live album. Father John Misty: Live at Third Man Records features seven songs from the September 26th, 2017 afternoon performance at Third Man’s Blue Room, held just hours before the singer-songwriter’s …
Read More »If This Is Really Childish Gambino's Last Tour, He's Leaving It All on the Stage
It felt like part of Childish Gambino died last night. As his sturdy frame lumbered through golden LSD obelisks and beads of sweat pooled on his back as “Redbone” played, he had the bearing of an exhausted man leaving behind a husk he’d never return to collect. At the outset …
Read More »Mariah Carey Sips Wine in Lingerie in 'GTFO' Video
Mariah Carey revels in post-breakup independence in her video for new song “GTFO.” The singer reclines throughout her house in lingerie, drifting from the living room to the kitchen to the bedroom while sipping wine and posing for the camera. As she drifts through the shadowy home, Carey appears lost …
Read More »See Natalie Prass Dance Among Dead Presidents in New Video
Natalie Prass dances among the visages of dead presidents in the video for “The Fire,” a song off her new album, The Future and the Past. As holds an axe in front of George Washington and sits on Andrew Jackson’s shoulder, she sings a pop song about sidestepping safety in …
Read More »AmericanaFest 2018: Must-See Artists and Showcases at Nashville Music Event
The 2018 Americana Music Festival and Conference gets under way in Nashville on Tuesday, with hordes of Americana artists, journalists and fans descending upon music venues, clubs and bars around Music City. This year, with an uptick in scheduled day parties and happy hours supplementing the requisite nighttime showcases, there’s …
Read More »Luke Combs Plots 2019 Headlining Arena Tour
Luke Combs knows his way around a heartbreak ballad, but at least the bottle’s never let him down. So goes the theme of the North Carolina native’s first-ever headlining arena jaunt, the Beer Never Broke My Heart Tour, set to kick off in 2019 with Lanco and Jameson Rodgers supporting. …
Read More »David Crosby Announces New Collaborative LP 'Here If You Listen'
The surviving members of the Byrds may betouring without him and Crosby, Stills and Nash may be irrevocably split, but David Crosby hasn’t let either situation dull his creative output. On October 26th, he’ll release his new album Here If You Listen,his fourth solo album in five years. (By comparison, …
Read More »See Delta Rae's Cinematic 'Do You Ever Dream' Video
Delta Rae have released the scenery-rich video for “Do You Ever Dream,” the band’s first new music since 2017’s A Long and Happy Life EP. The video, filmed in North Carolina and in Reykjavik, Iceland, with director Law, unites different kinds of dreaming — from thinking about the future to the …
Read More »Review: Eminem Lashes Out at the Rap Game on 'Kamikaze'
He’s relapsed, he’s recovered, he’s been revived – and now he’s back, back again (and again). His second album in less than a year, Kamikaze is the latest and most disappointing entry to Eminem’s never-ending encore, a boot camp of knotty, joyless, lumbering ragers aimed largely at a rap game that’s passing …
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