Katy Perrysobs during a therapy session in a preview of her upcoming YouTube Red special, Will You Be My Witness?, out October 4th. The feature-length project includes previously unseen content from the singer’s 96-hour June livestream promoting her fifth LP, Witness. In one memorable scene, the recent VMAs host breaks …
Read More »Watch Kurt Vile, Courtney Barnett's Cozy 'Continental Breakfast' Video
Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett hang with family and friends in the charming video for their new single, “Continental Breakfast.” The airy folk tune will appear on the pair’s upcoming collaborative album, Lotta Sea Lice, out October 13th. The Danny Cohen-directed clip blends footage of Vile and Barnett in their …
Read More »On Tour With Travis Scott, Hip-Hop's King of Chaos
Travis Scott bursts into his dressing room on a scooter, trailing assorted entourage and radiating the rich aroma of good weed. He makes for a catering table lined with Fruit Roll-Ups, Honey Buns, Lucky Charms and – for good measure – two bottles of Don Julio 1942 tequila. He’s at …
Read More »Hear Wu-Tang Clan's Inspectah Deck, Mathematics Bash Martin Shkreli on New Song
On newWu-Tang Clan-relatedsong “Lesson Learn’d,”Inspectah Deck disses Martin Shkreli, the infamous “Pharma bro” who reportedly paid $2 million for a copy of the group’s one-of-a-kind LP, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin (before selling it on eBay), and exchanged widely publicized barbs with Ghostface Killah. “My price hikin’ like the …
Read More »See Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley Play Together for First Time in 16 Years
For the first time in over 16 years, founding Kiss members Gene Simmons and Ace Frehley performed together onstage in St. Paul, Minnesota. The concert was a Hurricane Harvey benefit forThe Children Matter, an initiative Simmons co-founded with in collaboration with the nonprofit,Matter,Blabbermouth reports. The musicians performed four Seventies-era Kiss …
Read More »Bono on How U2's 'Songs of Experience' Evolved, Taking on Donald Trump
Shortly before the Edge got on the phone with Rolling Stone to talk about U2‘s upcoming LP Songs of Experience, Bono‘s “brush with mortality” that sent the album into a different lyrical direction and his thoughts about the band’s upcoming arena tour, we sent the singer a bunch of questions …
Read More »James Corden Regrets Kissing Sean Spicer at Emmys 2017
James Corden received backlashafter the Emmy Awards whenVariety posted an Instagram picture of Corden joke-kissing former White House press secretary Sean Spicer. Social media users expressed overwhelming disappointment with the host. Some people commented on the picture that they felt Corden was “normalizing fascism.” On Monday night, Corden responded to …
Read More »Lady Gaga Postpones European Tour to Heal 'Severe Physical Pain'
Lady Gagapostponed the European leg of her Joanne World Tour in order to heal “severe physical pain,” she said. “I have to be with my doctors right now so I can be strong and perform for you all for the next 60 years or more,” the singer wrote Monday on …
Read More »Johnny Cash Label Sends Cease-and-Desist to White Nationalist Radio Show
A white supremacist website will stop using Johnny Cash‘s cover of Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down” as the theme of its weekly radio broadcasts after Universal Music and American Recordings sent a cease-and-desist letter to the hate-based organization. Stormfront Radio, the weekly radio show for the white supremacist site …
Read More »John Prine, Sturgill Simpson Triumph at 2017 Americana Honors & Awards
“Thank you to the Americana fans, because, without you, there might be no other place for me,” said Amanda Shires, collecting her award for Emerging Artist of the Year at Wednesday’s 16th annual Americana Honors & Awards in Nashville. And she’s right: as guests filtered into the Ryman Auditorium, Sam …
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