Jay Rock looks back at his “battle scars and tribulations” on his new single “The Bloodiest,” the opening song off the rapper’s upcoming album Redemption. Over a sonorous beat produced by Jake One, Allen Ritter and Boi-1da, Rock reflects on his youth in Watts, California and his rise from slinging …
Read More »Watch Shawn Mendes, James Corden's Absurd Subway Busker Battle
Shawn Mendes and James Corden battled for subway busker supremacy in a goofy sketch from Wednesday’s Late Late Show. Corden opened the bit mock-strumming the weepy James Blunt ballad “You’re Beautiful” on acoustic guitar, but the host became possessive over his turf when Mendes posted up nearby and started crooning …
Read More »Kelsea Ballerini, Thomas Rhett to Host 'CMA Fest' TV Special
When the final notes of Luke Bryan’s set close out the 2018 CMA Music Festival on Sunday night at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, the annual country blowout is only half over. In August, the massive concert will be whittled down to a three-hour highlights special – CMA Fest – to …
Read More »Love Shacks and Nude Parties: The B-52's in Their Own Words
“We didn’t have a goal of what we wanted to sound like when we started out,” says Keith Strickland, the multi-instrumentalist behind some of theB-52’s‘ biggest hits. “We just knew we wanted it to be fun.” Since springing out of Athens, Georgia, in the mid-Seventies, the group has always been …
Read More »A New Plan to End School Gun Violence Still Tip-Toes Around Current Gun Laws
Following the shooting that left 10 dead at Santa Fe High School, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced he would hold a series of roundtable discussions focusing on ways to curb gun violence in schools. Although some of the state’s leading gun reform proponents were not invited, the group Texas Gun …
Read More »Stephen Stills Talks New Buffalo Springfield Box Set
The entire Buffalo Springfield saga lasted just a little over 24 months. It began with a chance encounter in early 1966 when Stephen Stills and Richie Furay were driving down the Sunset Strip and happened to see Neil Young and Bruce Palmer driving a hearse headed down the street in …
Read More »'Solo': 5 Reasons This 'Star Wars' Spinoff Stalled
Hollywood is a place of endless insecurity and uncertainty – but over the last four decades, few things have been more of a sure thing than a Star Wars movie. Before this year, George Lucas’ saga of a Tatooinian boy with major daddy issues had produced 10 movies, and with …
Read More »Review: Chvrches Super-Size Epic Synth-Pop on Third Album 'Love Is Dead'
Since forming in 2011, the Scottish trio Chvrches have refined synth-pop for the festival age, taking the chilly atmospherics of early electro and piling on flourishes designed to divert distracted attendees’ attentions away from art installations and friends’ conversations, with vocalist Lauren Mayberry’s airy soprano contorting into stretched-out pleas and …
Read More »Watch Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B, DJ Khaled in Wild 'Dinero' Video
Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B and DJ Khaled take luxury to new extremes in the new video for “Dinero.” The Joseph Khan-directed clip is shot in black-and-white and puts a humorous spin on high-class life, with Lopez, in the opening moments, rolling a diamond-studded bowling ball down the hall of a …
Read More »'The Staircase': Netflix Reveals Chilling True-Crime Docuseries Trailer
“There’s no murder weapon, there’s no motive,” a voiceover says in the new trailer for Netflix‘s relaunch ofThe Staircase. But in the case of crime novelist Michael Peterson, who was charged and convicted of the murder of his wife Kathleen, things aren’t always so cut-and-dry in the judicial system. The …
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