All I Can Say Comprised of the late singer’s self-recorded video footage, the new film’s trailer shows Blind Melon‘s Shannon Hoon laying down vocals for the bands 1992 hit, “No Rain.” Part historical record and part diary, the film shows some of Hoon’s milestone moments – including the birth of …
Read More »Charlie Wilson Honors the Four Tops With New Single 'One I Got'
Charlie Wilson pays tribute to the Four Tops in “One I Got,” a new single the R&B veteran released on Thursday at midnight. The track sits easily next to the rest of the Gap Band singer’s recent catalog: It’s beaming, optimistic, and besotted, with plenty of room for forceful, melismatic …
Read More »Pearl Jam Deliver First Performance of 'Dance of the Clairvoyants' for COVID-19 Relief Concert
Pearl Jam performed their Gigaton track “Dance of the Clairvoyants” live for the first time during the All in WA COVID-19 relief concert Wednesday. The socially distanced performance not only found each member of Pearl Jam recording from home, but there was a little bit of lineup movement as well, …
Read More »Amy Heckerling and Darren Criss Break Down 'Royalties'
Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actor and songwriter Darren Criss and director Amy Heckerling (Clueless, Fast Times at Ridgemont High) discuss their new Quibi show Royalties on the latest installment of Rolling Stone’s The Breakdown. Royalties tells the tale of two songwriters (Criss and Kether Donahue) trying to write music …
Read More »Black Eyed Peas Get Lost on 'Translation'
With every successful cultural movement, you’re bound to have bandwagon jumpers. As a plurality of reggaetoneros, traperos, and pop singers from across Latin America enjoy unprecedented albeit overdue global success, tourists like DJ Khaled, DJ Snake, and Tyga have inevitably glommed onto their sound, with varying degrees of success. None …
Read More »Pharrell Williams Talks Efforts to Make Juneteenth an Official Holiday on 'Kimmel'
Pharrell Williams discussed his efforts to make Juneteenth an official holiday during a visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday. Earlier in the week, Williams appeared alongside Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam at a press conference in support of making June 19th — or Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery — …
Read More »Woodstock 50 Claims Dentsu's 'Sabotage' Caused 'Huge Damages' to Festival in New Lawsuit
Woodstock 50 organizers are suing their former financial partner Dentsu Group and several of its affiliates, accusing the company of “destruction of the festival” and “sabotage.” In the complaint filed on Wednesday in New York Supreme Court obtained by Rolling Stone, the plaintiffs seek tens of millions of dollars in …
Read More »Trump Says, 'I Made Juneteenth Very Famous.' He Did Not
President Trump took his ignorance of Juneteenth and tried to spin it into a positive by claiming that he made the already significant and celebrated anniversary “famous.” Trump told the Wall Street Journal that a Black Secret Service agent had told him the meaning of Juneteenth after he faced backlash …
Read More »The Killers Won't Heed 'My Own Soul's Warning' on New Song
UPDATE (7/16):The Killers have announced a release date for Imploding the Mirage and released the video for “My Own Soul’s Warning.” The album is set to drop on August 21st, 2020 on Island Records. The band is also postponing their remaining 2020 tour dates for North America and Australia. “As …
Read More »The Power of Black Lives Matter
Two days after a Minneapolis cop killed George Floyd in late May, the novel coronavirus tallied its 100,000th American victim. More than 22,000 of those lost were black, though we only make up 13 percent of the overall U.S. population. As the global pandemic was laying bare virtually all of …
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