Kimbra delivered a soulful, stripped-down mini-set for the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s “Take One” performance series. The eclectic New Zealand singer showcased her wide vocal range with three songs from her upcoming third LP, Primal Heart. The art-pop artist opened with an intimate rendition of “Human,” the album’s third …
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Logic lodged his second career Number One album as the rapper’s Bobby Tarantino II debuted atop the Billboard 200, selling 119,000 total copies and ending Black Panther: The Album‘s reign. Of Bobby Tarantino II‘s haul, only 32,000 copies were derived from traditional album sales, with streaming equivalent albums, or SEAs, …
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Actress Toni Collette joins Arcade Fire in Money + Love, a 16-minute short film that serves as a two-in-one music video for “Put Your Money on Me” and “We Don’t Deserve Love.” Collette plays the head of a comically evil media company called Everything Now. At the start of the …
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“I was born on 4/20,” Bob Marley‘s son Stephen declared with a smile Monday, embracing the unofficial marijuana holiday as he and brothers Julian and Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley announced the first West Coast edition of their family’s Kaya Fest this April. It’s no coincidence that the two-day concert – …
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The life and career of Whitney Houston will be the focus of an upcoming documentary made with the approval of the legendary singer’s estate. Directed by Kevin Macdonald, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind One Day in September and the Bob Marley documentary Marley, Whitney features “previously unreleased recordings, rare never-before-seen footage …
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Jimi played guitar, jamming good with Billy and Buddy and the Experience – no, wait, that was Ziggy. But Hendrix was almost certainly a model for Bowie’s space crawler, an electric deity who sacrificed himself as he took it all too far. His music was haunted by death from the …
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Charlie Daniels crafted Wednesday night’s 20th installment of his long-running Volunteer Jam as a celebration of himself and who can blame him? The Country Music Hall of Fame member will turn 82 in October, and he’s been taking stock of what he’s accomplished, both through a memoir – Never Look …
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Comedy troupe the Lonely Island released an unused parody song they originally wrote and demoed for the 2018 Oscars. Throughout the hilarious track, the trio – Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer – portray characters from big-budget Hollywood movies and critically panned projects who vent about their lack of …
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The 1980 film that arguably did as much for women in the workplace as it did for Dolly Parton‘s crossover move from country to pop is getting a timely reboot. Deadline reports that 9 to 5, which starred Parton in her breakout role alongside film veterans Lily Tomlin and Jane …
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One day before his 49thbirthday earlier this month, Bobby Brown was relaxing at home watching his New England Patriots lose to the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LII. “I’m waiting to do the big one when I turn 50,” he says with a smile two weeks later at Brooklyn’s Barclays …
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