Jason White — the former Music Director of the massive West Angeles Church, who now oversees the choir at Kanye West‘s Sunday Service events — was nudged towards a career as musician when he was just four years old. “Every day I would rush home to play on the piano, …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. From Rick Wakeman to Chromeo, keyboards and keyboardists have always found a place in popular music, as the heartbeat behind a good song, whether it be prog rock …
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In celebration of Halloween (Haimoween), the band Haim have dressed up as the band Hanson (Haimson) in a new video posted to Twitter. “Happy HAIMoween get ready for our new song thats a HAIMMMMMMMMbop TOMORROW xoxo HAIMson,” reads the caption. Hanson (not Haimson) responded to the jam session with their …
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If there’s one thing the right loves, it’s to wring their hands and concern-troll over the welfare of transgender children. It’s not uncommon for right-wing pundits and politicians to accuse parents of using their children as pawns and ignoring their children’s welfare in service of their so-called left-wing agenda — …
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Chance the Rapper opened his episode of Saturday Night Live with a musical monologue that paid tribute to both his native Chicago and “second-best” things. After throwing his support behind the teachers’ strike in Chicago – Chance wore a Chicago Teachers Union sweatshirt for the monologue – the rapper delivered …
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Aubrie Sellers plumbs the complicated depths of her psyche in the chillingly candid “Worried Mind,” a track from the singer’s upcoming album Far From Home. In the just-released video for an acoustic version of the tune, shot in a diner in a single take by director Chloé Aktas, Sellers sings, …
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Our phones were locked in little mesh pouches so we communicated the way people did in the Dark Ages: we reenacted Vines. Last night, deep inside The Forum in Los Angeles, a group of young men formed a circle around their friend who was wearing a Florida Marlins hat ––one …
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When Julián Castro began telling me about the kind of person he is working to help, both with his campaign and with his new sweeping social-justice proposal, he started to talk about Freddie Gray. “He was the victim of police abuse,” Castro said over the phone about the 2015 homicide …
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Phish frontman Trey Anastasio fittingly covered Bon Iver‘s “Towers” during a concert in Justin Vernon’s hometown of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Monday. JamBase shared a fan-shot video of the performance in which Anastasio turns the lush tune into acoustic ballad. “Oh, the sermons are the first to rest/ Smoke on Sundays …
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Kesha has announced a new studio album,High Road, in a fiery trailer released Monday. This will be her first album since 2017’s Rainbow. Intercut with footage that’s made to look like a vintage travelogue, Kesha explains in a sit-down interview what we should expect from her next album. “I’ve seen …
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