Music

Over 60 years after its release, Chuck Berry’s Christmas classic “Run Rudolph Run” has received its first-ever official video, a festive new animated affair from UMe and the Berry estate. In recent years, UMe has given similar videos to seasonal staples like Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” Bobby …

You don’t know her. Nobody knows her. The one and only Mariah Carey has always been She Who Must Not Be Known, and her new book The Meaning of Mariah Carey (with Michaela Angela Davis) is an instant classic of pop diva lit. For any connoisseur of music memoirs, it’s …

In 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, the rock-obsessed duo played by Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves worship Eddie Van Halen and fantasize that one day he’ll join the band. In real life, the film’s writers hoped to cast the guitar god as a major role in the movie. We …

Frank Turner and Jon Snodgrass have reunited after 10 years for a new collaborative album, Buddies II, teasing the project with a new song, “Bad Times, Good Vibes.” Turner and Snodgrass wrote and recorded the album while working remotely during the Covid-19 lockdown, and “Bad Times, Good Vibes” is very …

More than half a year has passed since the pandemic shut down the world, and Robert Plant says he’s doing relatively well. “I can tell you that I’m still breathing, and I’ve got a warped sense of humor, and I can still sing a tune,” he deadpans. “But beyond that, …

Before the Doors recorded the first take of “Roadhouse Blues,” the boogieing lead-off to their fifth album, Morrison Hotel, frontman Jim Morrison set the scene for the band by describing a vivid scene with his natural gusto. “Now the subject of this song is something that all of you have …

When Brittany Howard released 2019’s Jaime, the album immediately began exposing Howard to new types of fanbases she had never before reached in her work with Alabama Shakes. “I have people coming out from all different pockets of what they like,” she told Rolling Stone last month. Never before have …

Travis Scott has teamed up with M.I.A. and Young Thug for his latest single, “Franchise.” On Thursday, he also premiered the video at IMAX screenings for Christopher Nolan’s Tenet before sharing it on YouTube at midnight. The new visual, which the rapper self-directed alongside White Trash Tyler, was partially filmed …

Back in August, Wyclef Jean launched a new interview series, Run That Back, and on the debut episode he played screenwriter and actress Lena Waithe a previously unreleased dubplate Whitney Houston had personally made for him. In the clip, Jean explains that he was headed to Jamaica for a dancehall …

Tenacious D tore through a reprise of “Save the World” and “Post-Apocalypto Theme” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday. “Save the world, Jimmy Kimmel,” Jack Black told the camera. “It’s up to you.” Clocking in at nearly two minutes, the performance featured Black, Kyle Gass and several musicians performing a …