Young Thug and Lil Uzi Vert descend into a world of surreal debauchery in the new video for their song, “Up.” The clip has a distinctly David Lynch-ian vibe with Young Thug and Uzi prominently spitting the woozy track in a room draped in red velvet curtains and covered with …
Read More »D.B. Cooper: Investigators Claim They've Discovered Skyjacker's Identity
A team of former FBI investigators is claiming to have proof of the real identity of D.B. Cooper, the notorious airplane hijacker who has remained at large since he parachuted out of a Seattle-bound plane with $200,000 in November 1971. According to filmmaker and author Thomas Colbert – who has …
Read More »Drake's 'Scorpion' Shatters Single-Day Streaming Records
Drake‘sScorpionshattered single-day streaming records on both Apple Music and Spotify, with the rapper’s new double album on pace for the most streamed week in charts history Scorpioneasily crushed Apple Music’s single-day streaming record – previously held by Drake‘s ownMore Life– with 170 million streams worldwide in its first 24 hours …
Read More »Joe Strummer's '001' Box Set to Feature Rare, Unreleased Solo Songs
Joe Strummer‘s work outside of the Clash will be collected in the new compilation Joe Strummer 001, featuring rare and unreleased recordings by the late rocker. The compilation – which features Strummer’s solo work in addition to songs with his 101ers and Mescaleros and the first recordings Strummer made post-Clash …
Read More »How We Made the Greatest Songs of the Century – So Far List
To compile our list the 100 Greatest Songs of the Century – So Far, we reached out to a large group of artists, producers, critics and industry experts who sent us ranked lists of their favorite songs. The list was determined by ballot. Voters submitted their 25 favorite songs of …
Read More »Cassadee Pope to Play 2018 Warped Tour
Years before rebranding herself as a country-pop powerhouse, Cassadee Pope earned her first fans as the leader of Hey Monday. She was a teenage punk-rocker, fronting a band of mop-topped misfits whose fans included Glee co-founder Ryan Murphy – who handpicked the band’s power ballad “Candles” for a key scene …
Read More »Judas Priest Launch Glenn Tipton Parkinson's Foundation to Honor Guitarist
Judas Priest have launched the Glenn Tipton Parkinson’s Foundation, named after the heavy metal act’s guitarist who announcedthat he had been battling the disease for a decade prior to their Firepower Tour. “It was the band that suggested we start a foundation which, although in my name, is really a …
Read More »Coheed and Cambria Detail New Album 'The Unheavenly Creatures'
Coheed and Cambria have detailed their upcoming concept album The Unheavenly Creatures, a sprawling 78-minute, 15-song LP that continues the narrative set forth in the band’s Amory Wars narrative. The band previously trumpeted their upcoming album, Coheed and Cambria‘s first since 2015’s The Color Before the Sun, with the 10-minute …
Read More »A Night Among the Trump Believers Way Up North
Minnesota’s lonely island of electoral blue in the midst of Donald Trump’s upper Midwest Republican bloodbath was on the minds of nearly everyone inside Duluth’s Amsoil Arena Wednesday night. Every speaker, including President Trump, referred to it, though perhaps no one quite as dramatically as state GOP chairwoman Jennifer Carnahan, …
Read More »Aaron Lee Tasjan Calls for Change, Compassion on New Song 'If Not Now When'
“People forget that there is such a thing as having a difficult conversation,” says Aaron Lee Tasjan, calling Rolling Stone Country from the road, where he’s touring with Social Distortion. “In real life, you can’t just delete the thread.” It’s a lot harder, even, to delete a song, something that …
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