After Morgan Wallen canceled the second of two nights at Mississippi’s Vaught-Hemingway Stadium and the fifth American date of his sold-out One Night at a Time Tour, a video surfaced of a security guard claiming the country singer had been “too drunk,” and that “an ambulance took him off.”Despite a …
Read More »How Taeyang Transformed a Tough Time Into Tender Honesty on 'Down to Earth'
As soon as Taeyang dropped “Vibe,” his upbeat collaboration with Jimin of BTS, he left fans eagerly awaiting more. They got just what they wanted with Down to Earth, an action-packed, six-track EP that dropped Tuesday and has a little bit of everything: touches of R&B and soul, tons of …
Read More »Morgan Wallen's 'Doctor-Ordered Vocal Rest' Results in More Postponed Concerts
After abruptly canceling his concert in Oxford, Mississippi, moments before he was scheduled to take the stage on Sunday evening, Morgan Wallen has at least given more than a few minute’s notice that the next three stops on his One Night at a Time tour will not be held as …
Read More »Harry Belafonte, Legendary Entertainer and Activist, Dead at 96
Harry Belafonte, the legendary singer, actor, and civil rights activist, died Tuesday, April 25, Rolling Stone has confirmed. He was 96. Belafonte died at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, with longtime spokesman Ken Sunshine adding the cause was congestive heart failure. Belafonte rose to prominence in …
Read More »Kesha Reveals Her New Album: 'I Really Dug Into My Uglier Emotions'
K esha was on the verge of a panic attack in the spring of 2020 when her aging cat Mr. Peeps brought over her headphones. She’d been spiraling a lot back then, like so many people, her anxiety mounting as the pandemic shut down the music industry — but she …
Read More »She Met Taylor Swift at 13. Now She's This Year's Brightest New Indie Voice
When Annie Blackman was 13, she met Taylor Swift. It was the fall of 2011, and like countless middle schoolers, she’d been listening all year to Speak Now, marveling at perfectly phrased darts like “Dear John” and “Mean.” “I started the whole music journey as a big Taylor Swift girl,” …
Read More »Desmond Child, Hitmaker Who's Worked With Ricky Martin, Katy Perry, Bon Jovi, Preps New Memoir
Desmond Child, the songwriter who’s penned hits for multiple generations of rock and pop stars — from Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ On a Prayer” to Ricky Martin’s “Livin’ La Vida Loca” — will publish his first memoir, Livin’ On a Prayer: Big Songs Big Life, Sept 19 via Radius Book Group. …
Read More »Kevin Morby Revisits 'This is a Photograph' With 'More Photographs (A Continuum)'
Kevin Morby hasn’t completely closed the door on This is a Photograph, the introspective seventh studio album he released last year. On it, he walked a thin line between autobiographical and fictional storytelling while exploring the way childhood memories change with age. But even those 12 songs weren’t enough for …
Read More »Thundercat Links Up With 'Long Lost Bandmate' Tame Impala on New Song 'No More Lies'
From the moment he first heard Tame Impala, Thundercat felt a profound sense of connection to Kevin Parker — which made his desire to work with the Australian psych whiz more of a need than a want. “There’s a part of me that felt like we’d be in a band …
Read More »Lucinda Williams Bit Ryan Adams and Other Big Reveals in Her New Memoir
“Music was my therapy for the many traumas I suffered as a child,” Lucinda Williams writes in her new memoir, Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You. Those traumas include her mother’s mental illness, which created a volatile and often unpredictable environment for Williams and her two siblings, the …
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