Midland recently announced plans to release their second album Let It Roll, featuring the lead single “Mr. Lonely,” on August 23rd. The country trio will follow their new music with the headlining Let It Roll Tour, which gets underway in mid-September. Kicking off with a September 17th show in New …
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Reggae stalwarts Toots and the Maytals stopped by Spotify’s studios in New York to record a session that included their clever interpretation of John Denver’s classic, “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” as well as their new song, “A Song Call Marley.” Toots and the Maytals slid into “Take Me Home” …
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“So I heard the bad news/Nobody likes me and I’m gonna die alone/In my bedroom, looking at strangers on my telephone,” opens “Number One Fan,” the latest single by Muna. Although it may start off downcast, vocalist Katie Gavin gives the Numan-esque synth-rock cut a rewarding upswing: “Wouldn’t you like …
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The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde unveiled a striking interpretation of Charles Mingus’ “Meditation on a Pair Of Wire Cutters,” set to appear on her upcoming album, Valve Bone Woe, out September 6th via via BMG. The song finds Hynde and the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble condensing Mingus’ 23-minute original into a …
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Barcelona, Spain’s famed Primavera Sound music festival will expand to Los Angeles in 2020, organizers announced Saturday. The California offshoot, co-produced by Live Nation and coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the Barcelona fest, will take place September 19th and 20th at Los Angeles State Historic Park. “We have been …
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Bhad Bhabie dropped two new clubby singles on Wednesday, clearly with summertime on the brain. “Lotta Dem” is a classic dance track, while “Spaz” heats up in a different way, with Bhabie and rising Alabama rapper YBN Nahmir teaming up on a diss track. The double release follows “Babyface Savage,” …
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No one saw Lil Nas X coming.His race to ubiquity came impossibly quickly, and it’s a rare instance of an artist’s industry story — the making-of chronicle of an underdog star — becoming to wide audiences as compelling as his music. Ever since the 20-year-old rapper rose into the public …
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After Nipsey Hussle died, YG spoke at his memorial at the Staples Center, called him “black motherfucking Jesus” during an emotional Coachella set, and delayed the release of his own album. Their friendship was a close one that transcended gang ties; they spoke truth to power on the defining political …
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In 2017, when one of Nathaniel Rateliff’s oldest friends — a carpenter who grew up alongside him and Night Sweats bassist Joseph Pope in Missouri — was injured in a construction accident, Rateliff and Pope knew they needed to support him. Their band had just celebrated two years of unprecedented …
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Rihanna is indeed working on a reggae album, according to an interview with T magazine. The singer hinted at releasing an album influenced by her Caribbean roots to Vogue nearly a year ago, and eight sources confirmed this to Rolling Stone last July. “[Rihanna’s team] have, no lie, 500 records …
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