On Wednesday afternoon, Kim Kardashian West and her mother Kris Jenner took the stage at the New York Times’ Dealbook Conference in Manhattan. Interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin, the pair spent half an hour discussing their rise to monolithic cultural status and the attendant businesses that came with it. In …
Read More »How Erin Enderlin Built a Country Career on Cinematic Storytelling
Erin Enderlin likes to give some credit to Reba McEntire for her decision to pursue a career in songwriting. As a young kid who was obsessed with country music, Enderlin came across an article about the “Fancy” singer in which McEntire’s mother had instructed the performer to start figuring out …
Read More »Hear Fiona Apple's Full-Throated Cover of the Waterboys' 'The Whole of the Moon'
Fiona Apple unveiled a new cover of the Waterboys “The Whole of the Moon” on the series finale of Showtime’s The Affair Sunday. Per a New York Times recap, the episode opened with the Waterboys’ original 1985 version, while Apple’s cover played at the end. While Apple deftly captured the …
Read More »Bob Dylan's Nashville Sessions Explored in 'Travelin' Thru' Mini-Doc
Bob Dylan‘s late-Sixties Nashville studio sessions — and his collaborations with Johnny Cash — are explored in the mini-documentary The Story Of Travelin’ Thru, 1967 – 1969, the companion visual to the just-released 15th volume in Dylan’s Bootleg Series. The seven-minute film features new interviews with Rosanne Cash, Darius Rucker …
Read More »How Kanye West's 'Sunday Services' Began
Jason White — the former Music Director of the massive West Angeles Church, who now oversees the choir at Kanye West‘s Sunday Service events — was nudged towards a career as musician when he was just four years old. “Every day I would rush home to play on the piano, …
Read More »Haim Dress Up as Hanson (Haim-son) in Haim-larious Haim-oween Video
In celebration of Halloween (Haimoween), the band Haim have dressed up as the band Hanson (Haimson) in a new video posted to Twitter. “Happy HAIMoween get ready for our new song thats a HAIMMMMMMMMbop TOMORROW xoxo HAIMson,” reads the caption. Hanson (not Haimson) responded to the jam session with their …
Read More »See Chance the Rapper Pay Tribute to Chicago, 'Second-Best' Things With 'SNL' Monologue
Chance the Rapper opened his episode of Saturday Night Live with a musical monologue that paid tribute to both his native Chicago and “second-best” things. After throwing his support behind the teachers’ strike in Chicago – Chance wore a Chicago Teachers Union sweatshirt for the monologue – the rapper delivered …
Read More »Aubrie Sellers Shines a Light on Her Anxiety in Vulnerable 'Worried Mind' Video
Aubrie Sellers plumbs the complicated depths of her psyche in the chillingly candid “Worried Mind,” a track from the singer’s upcoming album Far From Home. In the just-released video for an acoustic version of the tune, shot in a diner in a single take by director Chloé Aktas, Sellers sings, …
Read More »Kanye West's 'Jesus Is King' Events Get Grander, But the Music Still Sounds Unfinished
Our phones were locked in little mesh pouches so we communicated the way people did in the Dark Ages: we reenacted Vines. Last night, deep inside The Forum in Los Angeles, a group of young men formed a circle around their friend who was wearing a Florida Marlins hat ––one …
Read More »Watch Trey Anastasio of Phish Cover Bon Iver's 'Towers'
Phish frontman Trey Anastasio fittingly covered Bon Iver‘s “Towers” during a concert in Justin Vernon’s hometown of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Monday. JamBase shared a fan-shot video of the performance in which Anastasio turns the lush tune into acoustic ballad. “Oh, the sermons are the first to rest/ Smoke on Sundays …
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