Brazilian pop star Anitta has added five new songs to the deluxe edition of Versions of Me, which arrives today, Aug. 26. The five new tracks include some of the all-star collaborations Anitta has released over the past few weeks, including “El Que Espera” with Maluma and “Lobby” with Missy …
Read More »Muse's Matt Bellamy Recalls Attending One of Lady Gaga's Early Career Shows: 'I Have Always Been a Little Monster'
Matt Bellamy is activating his Lady Gaga stan card. “I always have been a monster,” the Muse frontman told Zane Lowe in a new Apple Music 1 interview. He gushed about seeing the singer live in Washington D.C. back in 2007 when she was playing to rooms of 500 people …
Read More »Robert Plant on Success, Getting Panned by Rolling Stone, and What 'Stairway to Heaven' Means to Him Now
W hen I reach Robert Plant on the phone, it’s a few days before he and Alison Krauss play Glastonbury. Plant has just arrived back in England in a great mood and describes his day so far in his very Plant-like way: “It’s summer solstice — it’s magnificent,” he exclaims. …
Read More »David Bowie's 'Moonage Daydream' Soundtrack to Feature Unreleased Live Tracks, New Mixes
Ahead of the release of the David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream, details of the film’s soundtrack have been revealed, with the companion collection boasting unreleased live versions, album cuts, interview excerpts, orchestral performances, and film-specific remixes of classic Bowie tracks. As a preview of the soundtrack’s exclusive “Moonage Daydream” mixes, …
Read More »A New Look at Cult-Favorite Folk Sisters the Roches
In the summer of 1971, a sibling folk duo attended Paul Simon‘s songwriting class at NYU and then found themselves singing backup on There Goes Rhymin’ Simon. More than 50 years later — and just after Soccer Mommy cited them as an influence on her recent album — the Roches …
Read More »Professor John Legend to Teach the Art of Songwriting With New 'MasterClass'
John Legend will attempt to teach common folk how to pen hit songs as the latest instructor in the MasterClass series. The streaming platform announced its new EGOT-winning teacher Thursday, with Legend presenting a songwriting curriculum with lessons revolving around his own songs like “Free,” “All of Me,” “Glory,” and …
Read More »Why the Hell Is Will Hoge Teaching a Peloton Class?
Hey, it’s hard to sell records these days, especially as an independent artist. So we give props to Will Hoge for literally sweating to get his music heard. To promote Wings on My Shoes, his superb new album out Friday, the Grammy-nominated Nashville roots-rocker hopped on his Peloton and led …
Read More »Jota Rosa Gets Deep in His Feelings on 'Como Ñengo' With Feid and Kris Floyd
Back in 2020, the superproducer Tainy released Club Dieciseis,a crisp compilation full of forward-thinking reggaeton experiments. Now, another artist is picking up where he left off: Rising star Jota Rosa, a triple-threat who writes, produces and performs, is getting ready to drop Club Dieciseis 2, a follow-up to Tainy‘s original …
Read More »Man Tasked to Recover R. Kelly Sex Tapes Slammed During Cross Examination
Chicago, IL —Charles Freeman claimed R. Kelly and his team made a verbal agreement to pay him $1 million to secure videos of the singer allegedly sexually assaulting a minor during his testimony on Tuesday and detailed a timeline and plan on how he claimed he did so during R. …
Read More »Authorities Dismiss Michelle Branch Domestic Assault Case
Authorities in Tennessee have dismissed the domestic assault case against Michelle Branch two weeks after the singer-songwriter was arrested following a dispute with now-estranged husband, The Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney, at their Nashville-area home. According to Billboard, the charge of misdemeanor domestic assault against Branch was dropped “at the …
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