Red Velvet is turning a classic song into a K-pop banger. On Monday, the girl group released their mini-album, The ReVe Festival 2022 – Birthday, led by the title track “Birthday,” which featured a sample of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” “It’s your day/Clasp your two hands tight, keep on …
Read More »Donald Trump Calls Kanye West a 'Seriously Troubled Man' After Mar-a-Lago Dinner
Donald Trump called Kanye West “a seriously troubled man, who happens to be black” in the former president’s latest statement after having dinner at Mar-a-Lago with the disgraced rapper along with a known white supremacist and Holocaust denier. In a Truth Social post Saturday, Trump said that he met with …
Read More »How Bassist Paz Lenchantin Went From Teenage Pixies Fan to Member of the Band
Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well-known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete …
Read More »The Sheepdogs Won a Rolling Stone Cover Contest a Decade Ago. The Band Is Still Blurring Musical Lines
“It’s that Friday five o’clock vibe, where you’re shaking off the dust after a long work week: What am I listening to on that drive home?” asks Ewan Currie, lead singer and guitarist for the Sheepdogs. Situated at a table at the Burger Bar, a local dive in Asheville, North …
Read More »Shania Twain Marks 25th Anniversary of 'Come On Over' With Elton John, Chris Martin Duets
Shania Twain belatedly marked the 25th anniversary of her hit 1997 album Come On Over Sunday with a surprise digital-only reissue complete with duets featuring Elton John, Chris Martin and Nick Jonas. The deluxe version was released as part of Apple Music’s daily From Apple Music With Love series; in …
Read More »Irene Cara, 'Fame' Star and 'Flashdance' Singer, Dead at 63
Irene Cara, the Oscar-winning star of Fame and the chart-topping singer of “Flashdance… What a Feeling,” has died at the age of 63. Cara died Friday at her home in Florida, her publicist Judith A. Moore announced on Twitter. Her cause of death is “currently unknown and will be released …
Read More »Was 'Taxman' Inspired by 'Batman'? And Other Burning 'Revolver ' Questions
The Batman TV show, with Neil Hefti’s indelible “na-na-na-na-na-na-Batman” theme song, debuted in the U.S. in January 1966, hitting the U.K. in May. In April of that year, the Beatles started recording what would become the opening track of Revolver, George Harrison‘s “Taxman,” which resembles the Batman theme when the …
Read More »Bob Dylan Apologizes Over Autopen Controversy: 'An Error in Judgement'
Bob Dylan has apologized to fans following the controversy surrounding the “hand-signed” copies of his new book The Philosophy of Modern Song, with the music legend admitting he employed an autopen after a “bad case of vertigo” and Covid protocols left him unable to personally autograph the limited-edition run. “I’ve …
Read More »Bad Bunny's Collaborators Talk About Being Part of the History-Making Album 'Un Verano Sin Ti'
Unlike some of his past top-secret projects, Bad Bunny began dropping clues that he was working on his record-smashing album Un Verano Sin Ti months before it came out. He left little dispatches from a remote island on his Instagram and hinted at a breezy beach theme he was playing …
Read More »Hold On…Wilson Phillips' First New Song in 10 Years Is a Harry Styles Cover
Wilson Phillips‘ last single was 2012’s “Good Vibrations,” which isn’t shocking considering it’s a cover of a song co-written by the father of two of the band’s members. But now the California trio have completely branched out for their first new song in 10 years: a rendition of Harry Styles‘ …
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