Spencer Sutherland and Meghan Trainor are here to remind you to chill out, because we’re all ending up at the same destination, anyway. Playing off the fable of the flustered little bird, Sutherland premieres the video for his new single “Chicken Little” withRolling StoneFriday. Set in a laundromat transformed into …
Read More »Hear Sara Bareilles and Composer Rob Moose Find a Place in the Ether on 'Extract'
Rob Moose, a violinist and composer who has arranged music for everyone from Miley Cyrus to Anohni and the Johnsons, collaborated with some of his famous friends on his upcoming first solo release, the EP Inflorescence. The latest single, “Extract,” finds him teaming with Sara Bareilles. The full EP comes …
Read More »The People Who Shaped Anohni's World
F or more than two decades, Anohni has captivated listeners with her fluttering, ascendant voice, singing elegantly about fractured love, gender dysmorphia, and equal rights, among other urgent subjects. Listening to her music is a singular experience. She named her band, Anohni and the Johnsons, in deference to Marsha P. …
Read More »Inside the Brooklyn Public Library's 'Book of Hov' Exhibit Honoring Jay-Z
Today is the grand opening of The Book of HOV, a 40,000-square-foot exhibit at the Brooklyn Public Library crafted in collaboration with Roc Nation. The free exhibit makes full use of the library’s expansive Grand Army Plaza branch, with the front of the institution wrapped with his lyrics, a Jazz …
Read More »Coco Jones Takes R&B Victory Lap With Justin Timberlake on 'ICU' Remix
A crying emoji and a drawing of a river. The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. A collage of nineties boy bands. These were the clues Coco Jones provided her fans with when teasing the remix of “ICU,” her breakthrough single released last October. They didn’t point towards the artists many fans thought …
Read More »Palehound's 'Eye On the Bat' Is An Intense Journey. You'll Want to Ride Along
The latest release from Palehound is one hell of a ride. The album was inspired by the “apocalypse road trip” across the U.S. that the indie Boston band took mid-tour to get safely back home as the pandemic hit in early 2020. The stress and tension of that moment informs …
Read More »Paul Rudd Is Down on His Luck Again in Claud's Funny 'A Good Thing' Video
Paul Rudd plays a flustered mailman who is incapable of delivering letters because he is worried about his ailing ferret in the video for Claud‘s “A Good Thing.” The track appears on the artist’s Supermodels album, out today. (The album, incidentally, contains a song titled “Paul Rudd.”) Finding Claud’s mail …
Read More »Watch Coldplay Cover Backstreet Boys' 'Everybody (Backstreet's Back)' in Gothenburg
On the second Gothenburg stop of their current Music of the Spheres tour, Coldplay surprised fans with a pared down version of the Backstreet Boys’ 1997 hit “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back).” As seen in a video of the performance, Chris Martin sang the hook with the entire stadium accompanying him. The …
Read More »Lisa Marie Presley's Cause of Death Revealed
Lisa Marie Presley died due to complications of a small bowel obstruction, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office. The report stated on Thursday that Lisa Marie’s death in January was caused by a “sequelae of a small bowel obstruction.” The singer and only child ofElvis Presley had …
Read More »Watch Lil Wayne Revisit His Track 'A Milli' at 31st Annual ESPY Awards
Music and sports intersected at the 31st ESPY Awards when Lil Wayne opened the annual awards show, which celebrates the best moments in sports, with a rendition of his 2008 hit “A Milli.” The rapper took the stage solo to showcase the single, with the celeb-filled audience, including Tiffany Haddish …
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