UPDATE: J. Cole has announced a rescheduled date of April 6th for his previously canceled Dreamville Festival, per Variety. *** J. Cole has been forced to cancel his inaugural Dreamville Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina due to the impending arrival of Hurricane Florence in the region. “Due to safety concerns …
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Kandace Springs, a gifted 29-year-old singer signed to the jazz bastion Blue Note, is torn between two impulses. On the one hand, she gestures towards the contemporary: Her debut EP involved the illustrious R&B production duo Pop & Oak; she released a house single this year with renowned dancefloor maven …
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Mac Miller, the 26-year-old rapper known for his canny wordplay and artistic reinvention, died Friday at his Los Angeles home. The apparent cause of death was a drug overdose. “Malcolm McCormick, known and adored by fans as Mac Miller, has tragically passed away at the age of 26,” his family …
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Facing ever-tightening competition, Apple Music has picked up the pace in the last few months. After growing to 50 million subscribers, launching amusic-publishing divisionandhosting a number of exclusive concerts and documentaries on the content side, the music-streaming service is now working on bolstering its offerings in one key area: data. …
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R.E.M. collected rare and unreleased live and studio material for the massive R.E.M. at the BBC box set, out October 19th via Craft Recordings. The career-spanning set, assembled from the BBC and band archives, will be available in several formats: digital, 2-CD, 2-LP and a Super Deluxe 8-CD/1-DVD box set. …
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Ari Lennox, the lone R&B singer signed to rapper J. Cole’s Dreamville Records, struggles to stop reminiscing about her ex in the new video for “Whipped Cream.” “Whipped Cream” is built around a wonderfully slowed sample of “Two of Us,” a luscious, falsetto-smeared record from the funk group Cameo. On …
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Former Cosby Show actor Geoffrey Owens appeared on Good Morning America to discuss the job-shaming he experienced after photos of him working at Trader Joe’s recently made headlines. Last week, UK tabloid The Daily Mail ran a story on Owens with the headline, “From Learning Lines to Serving the Long …
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When it comes to improvised music, there’s something about duets with drummers. Ever since the 1974 release of John Coltrane’slandmark Interstellar Space session, on which the saxophonist was joined only by drummer Rashied Ali, countless musicians — from fellow saxists to trumpeters, pianists, guitarists and even double-bassists — have squared …
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Last April, Steven Tyler took a brief respite from his solo tour to cut a track at the historic Florence Alabama Music Enterprises (FAME) Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.For a new compilation calledMuscle Shoals…Small Town, Big Sound,Tyler put his own bedraggled spin on one of the studio’s most famous exports: …
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Long before his famous gigs as a fashion model, museum guard and cartoon lion, high-school-aged Ben Stiller was the drummer for short-lived New York noise band Capital Punishment. A mix of industrial art-collage, synth-tweaked post-punk and teenage kicks, the band quietly released one record, played zero shows under their name …
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