Brandy Clark was the musical guest on The Late Late Show With James Corden on Thursday, beaming in remotely to do a quick interview and perform an acoustic version of the song “Bigger Boat.” The track originally appears on Clark’s 2020 album Your Life Is a Record as a duet …
Read More »Want a TikTok Hit? Have $30,000?
Early in 2019, a manager for an aspiring rapper named Flo Milli tracked down the TikTok user @nicemichael and offered him $200 to bring more attention to a dance for “Beef Flomix.” The resulting video clip amassed more than 100,000 likes, helping jumpstart “Beef Flomix;” after the song became popular …
Read More »Ruston Kelly Previews New Album With Meditative 'Rubber'
Ruston Kelly has announced plans for Shape & Destroy, the full-length follow-up to the singer-songwriter’s acclaimed 2018 album Dying Star. On Wednesday, Kelly gave a preview of the project, which is due August 28th via Rounder Records, with the new song “Rubber.” A meditative ballad that builds from circular, fingerstyle …
Read More »Jason Isbell, Lucinda Williams Announce 2021 Tour
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit will play a string of West Coast and Texas shows next summer with Lucinda Williams opening. The 2021 dates with special guest Williams, who released her latest album Good Souls Better Angels in April, begin July 19th in Vancouver and include stops in Seattle, …
Read More »Hear Low Cut Connie Ruminate on Lust and Faith on 'What Has Happened to Me'
Low Cut Connie has released “What Has Happened to Me,” a piano-grunge dirge that finds the band exploring sex and religion. “It’s a heavy song for me,” the band’s frontman Adam Weiner says. “Very freeing. A lot of wild shit happened over the last few years and I just kind …
Read More »Diplo on His New Nashville Album: 'I'm Not Trying to Make Meme Country'
Diplo has built an impressive résumé with his uncanny ability to look ahead and highlight scenes from around the globe that are about to break open, ushering them into the mainstream. But for his latest project, the 41-year-old producer-DJ-musician looked backward to his childhood in the South as a kid …
Read More »Robert Earl Keen to Play Social-Distanced Shows at Texas Club
Beloved Texas singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen has announced a pair of shows at one of the Lone Star State’s best-known venues. On June 12th and 13th, Keen will perform at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, marking one of the first indoor concerts since the COVID-19 pandemic forced stay-at-home orders. According …
Read More »Use These Drum Machines to Drop Your Beats
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. A drum machine emulates the sounds made by any and all percussion instruments. But unlike the actual instruments, a drum machine lets you go a step further in …
Read More »American Plague
It was just a week ago now that Derek Chauvin, then still employed as a Minneapolis police officer, pressed his left knee into the neck of George Floyd for what, on video, seemed like an interminable amount of time. It was a total of eight minutes and 46 seconds, nearly …
Read More »070 Shake Doesn't See Time the Way Everyone Else Does
Every morning at precisely 11:30 a.m., 070 Shake puts Pink Floyd’sDark Side of the Moon on a record player in the studio where she works in New Jersey. “Every day, at the same time,” the 22-year-old singer says. Shake is signed to Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music and Def Jam, one …
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