Three years ago, Giveon landed a 15-minute tour slot opening for Baby Rose and Snoh Aalegra. There was only one problem: At the time, he had released just two original songs. Needing new tunes in a hurry to fill out his set, the R&B singer decided to write something quickly …
Read More »Kehlani and Justin Bieber Are Too Lovestruck to Sleep on New Song 'Up All Night'
Kehlani and Justin Bieber have reunited for a new song, “Up All Night,” which will appear on Kehlani’s upcoming album, Blue Water Road, out April 29. “Up All Night” opens with Kehlani crooning over an ethereal synth loop, but the song quickly shifts into a bouncing old-school dance groove as …
Read More »The Wanted's Tom Parker Dead at 33
Tom Parker, the British singer best known for his role in the popular boy band the Wanted, died Wednesday after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor two years prior. He was 33. “Max, Jay, Siva, Nathan and the whole Wanted family are devastated by the tragic and premature loss …
Read More »Maggie Rogers Announces New Album 'Surrender'
Maggie Rogers has announced her new album Surrender, the singer-songwriter’s first LP since her stunning major label debut Heard It in a Past Life in 2019. Rogers began work on Surrender — out July 29 via Capitol Records and available to preorder now — in early 2020 after a lengthy …
Read More »Machine Gun Kelly Sings From a Cat Lady's Bedroom in 'Make Up Sex' Video
Machine Gun Kelly is celebrating the release of his album Mainstream Sellout with a new video. On Tuesday, he released the colorful, feline-filled video for “Make Up Sex,” featuring Blackbear. And you can probably guess what it’s about. Surrounded by dozens, probably hundreds, of cats in a fully pink room, …
Read More »Fly Anakin's 'No Dough' Is a 90-Second Tour Through All That Makes Him 'One of the Illest MCs'
“I’m still takin’ my shit/Parking my whip/Now I’m adjusting my fit,” raps Richmond, Virginia’s Fly Anakin on “No Dough,” a breakneck 90-second tour through everything that makes him a deeply exciting MC. Pitted with an adventurous, funk-pumped Madlib beat, Anakin raps in a high-pitched cadence, sort of like AZ if …
Read More »Brian Wilson's Ex-Wife Sues Beach Boys Founder After $50 Million UMG Publishing Deal
Brian Wilson‘s ex-wife Marilyn Wilson-Rutherford is suing the Beach Boys founding singer and songwriter following a $50 million deal Wilson made with Universal Music Publishing Group to sell song rights to the publisher, according to recently filed legal documents obtained by Rolling Stone. Wilson-Rutherford first sued Wilson in February at …
Read More »Adrian Quesada's New Trip: Reviving the Magic of 'Boleros Psicodélicos'
About 20 years ago, Adrian Quesada was driving at night in his home base of Austin, Texas, when he heard something that made him turn up the volume: “Esclavo y Amo,” a psychedelic love song recorded in the 1970s by the Peruvian combo Los Pasteles Verdes. “I had never heard …
Read More »Interpol and Spoon Team Up for 'Lights, Camera, Factions' Tour
Indie rock heavyweights Interpol and Spoon will embark on a co-headlining tour at the end of the summer. The “Lights, Camera, Factions” trek will kick off Aug. 25 at the Stone Pony Summer Stage in Asbury Park, New Jersey and wrap with two nights in Portland, Oregon, Sept. 17 and …
Read More »Robert Pollard Combining Two Out-of-Print Solo Albums Into New LP, 'Our Gaze'
Guided by Voices’ Robert Pollard has reimagined and combined his two out-of-print 2007 albums into a new release, Our Gaze, set to arrive May 20 via Rockathon Records. The new project pulls songs from the two LPs Pollard released on Oct. 9, 2007: Standard Gargoyle Decisions and Coast to Coast …
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