Anxiety and depression fuel Dilly Dally‘s animated, escape fantasy for “Marijuana.” The new single appears on their sophomore album, Heaven, which was released in September. In the visual, singer-guitarist Katie Monks peruses trippy landscapes, cries white-noise and is engulfed in flames as she belts the cathartic chorus. “We’ve been inhaling …
Read More »25 Years Later, Consequence Remembers Making 'Midnight Marauders'
Consequence is beaming — you can feel it through the phone. It’s the 25th anniversary of A Tribe Called Quest‘s Midnight Marauders, an album changed rap, and his life. “It’s a very important album for myself, being as though it was my first official transition into the music business, because …
Read More »Nile Rodgers Can't Stop
“I cannot believe the amount of times that I’ve cheated death and was aware of it. So many close calls, from cancer twice to boating accidents to my heart stopping eight times in one night. I can’t imagine how many times I’ve cheated death and didn’t even know it.” Nile …
Read More »Marianne Faithfull on Finding 'More Meaning' in Her Classic Songs
Marianne Faithfull feels out of sorts. “I have a cold, the weather’s been terribly hard here in Paris and, what else … well, the usual,” she says on a call from her home in the City of Lights. “I’ve got to have a shoulder replacement, so I’m in a lot …
Read More »Watch Chance The Rapper, Steph Curry Help Explain Voting in Midterms
Ahead of the midterm elections this Tuesday, Chance The Rapper and NBA star Steph Curry joined Akilah Hughes on an episode of HBO’s Pod Save America to explain the voting process. On Friday night, they made cameos on the show’s “Democracy or Else” segment, where they confessed they hadn’t submitted …
Read More »Flashback: The Lost 'Weird Al' Song That Michael Jackson Rejected
Were it not for Michael Jackson, it’s quite possible that “Weird Al” Yankovic would have gone down in history as the oddball that sang “Another One Rides the Bus” on The Tom Snyder Show and then faded into complete obscurity. It was his 1984 Jackson parody “Eat It” that introduced …
Read More »See Christine and the Queens' Funky, Choreographed 'Comme Si' on 'Colbert'
Christine and the Queens performed a lively, highly choreographed version of her funk-pop song “Comme Si” on Tuesday’s Late Show. The French singer opened solo, singing against a backdrop of a foggy mountain valley. But she ramped up the energy after backing dancers joined her onstage, adding artful movements, side-to-side …
Read More »Watch Mac Miller's Livestreamed Tribute Concert Tonight
Mac Miller: A Celebration of Life, a star-studded tribute concert dedicated to the late rapper that will benefit the newly formed Mac Miller Circles Fund, will take place Wednesday, October 31st. The event will be livestreamed and begins at 9:30PM EST/6:30PM PST. You can watch it on a wide range of …
Read More »Hear Gerard Way's Halloween-Ready New Song 'Baby, You're a Haunted House'
My Chemical Romance‘s Gerard Way is back with a Halloween-appropriate single titled “Baby, You’re a Haunted House.” This is Way’s first new piece of solo music since 2016. The fuzzy power-pop song reflects the Britpop twist in his sound from his 2014 debut solo albumHesitant Alien. On it, Way embraces …
Read More »Eric Church's Producer Shares His Eccentric, Chain-Smoking Creative Process
For more than five years now, Jay Joyce has lived here on the basement level of a church on a residential street in East Nashville that — in the interim between it being a functioning Southern Baptist church and the acclaimed record producer transforming it into his dream studio — …
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