For the last five years, my lead chemist, Armando, has developed new products that people with advanced chemistry degrees have assured me are impossible to make. From putting powderized functional mushrooms into vegan softgels to creating squeeze dabs with different cannabinoids and variable melting points, my guy keeps proving the …
Read More »Billie Eilish Almost Called Her New Album 'Patheticville'
“She’s a little unpredictable,” Finneas says of his sister, Billie Eilish. “I say this with love, but I sit next to her during interviews, and I never know what she’s going to say. I really don’t.” We feel the same way. Eilish recently starred on Rolling Stone’s cover for her …
Read More »Demi Lovato Dives Deeper Into Rock With Slash on Temptations' 'Papa Was a Rolling Stone' Cover
Most of the guest singers on Slash‘s just-released album of blues and soul covers, Orgy of the Damned, seem like a who’s who of hard rock: Paul Rodgers, Steven Tyler, Billy Gibbons, Iggy Pop. There’s also Demi Lovato, the rock-loving pop star who gives a powerhouse performance of the Temptations’ …
Read More »Neil Young and Crazy Horse Are Unearthing Their 'Early Daze' on New Archival LP
Shortly after the dissolution of Buffalo Springfield in 1968, Neil Young teamed up with the core members of struggling L.A. rock band the Rockets, renamed them Crazy Horse, and spent the next five decades working alongside them. Their first record was 1969’s Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, featuring classics like …
Read More »Zayn Delivers His Own MTV Unplugged Set on 'Room Under the Stairs'
Zayn’s starting point for his fourth studio album Room Under the Stairs was an emotional low point. “Alienated” began in his home studio in rural Pennsylvania, where he wrote the majority of the record on his own in a state of both creative and physical isolation. The percussive track simmers …
Read More »Taylor Swift Expands 'Tortured Poets Department' (Again) With Limited Edition First Draft Phone Memos
The ever-expanding universe of Taylor Swift‘s The Tortured Poets Department has spread out once again. The singer and songwriter has released new versions of three songs from the newly-released album. The earliest recorded editions of “The Black Dog,” “Cassandra,” and “Who’s Afraid Of Little Old Me?” billed as “the first …
Read More »Remi Wolf Has 'Big Ideas' for Her 2024 Headlining Tour
Remi Wolf has announced a major headlining tour this fall in support of her upcoming album, Big Ideas, out July 12 via Island Records. The 20-date trek will launch Sept. 10 at the Santa Barbara Bowl in Santa Barbara, California, and wrap Oct. 16 at the Greek Theatre in Los …
Read More »Dead & Company Venture Out to Space — And Their Past — at Dazzling Sphere Opener
The long, strange trip just got a lot trippier. Dead & Company opened their much-anticipated Sphere residency in Las Vegas on Thursday night, making good on the potential of the world’s most high-tech concert venue and delivering what has to be the most dazzling visual show in Grateful Dead history. …
Read More »Sure Looks Like Michigan's GOP Leader Gambled $73,000 in One Month
In September 2019, Michigan state Rep. Matt Hall’s then-girlfriend called 911. According to the police write-up of the incident, Hall — now the Republican state House minority leader — was rushing to place bets across the stateline in Indiana after he temporarily lost track of his gambling money. (He later …
Read More »Hear Paul McCartney & Wings' 'Hi, Hi, Hi' From Official Bootleg 'One Hand Clapping'
One of the most bootlegged live albums of all time will officially be released this summer as Paul McCartney & Wings’ One Hand Clapping — a collection of Band on the Run-era live recordings from what is now Abbey Road Studios — will arrive on June 14, two months shy …
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