There’s an inherent romanticism to the cowboy archetype: a restless wanderer, perpetually in search of his next heroic adventure somewhere in the American southwest. Billy Joe Shaver turned that idea upside down in his 1981 song “We Are the Cowboys,” pointing out that cowboys are just average folks of all …
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Paul McCartney has dug deep in his vault for an upcoming, in-depth reissue of his 1997 album, Flaming Pie. The massive reissue, which comes out July 31st, features his intimate home recordings, studio jams, rough mixes, outtakes, audio from his radio show at the time, Oobu Joobu, a documentary about …
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Alicia Bognanno channeled 1997 Chumbawamba classic “Tubthumping” when it came to writing her new single, “Where to Start” — the first song off of Bully‘s upcoming third album, Sugaregg (out August 21 via Subpop). “I was listening to ‘Tubthumping’ by Chumbawamba and picking apart the melodic structure and sort of …
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The part of TikTok that serves as a launching pad for hit singles often seems like an endless stream of dance challenges — kinetic sequences of moves, heavy on martial arm movements, that can be packed into a 15-second clip shot on a stationary phone camera. Users like the dances …
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The hashtag #WhiteLivesMatter may have caused some confusion on Twitter on Wednesday, after K-pop fans took over the trending topic by spamming it with fan cams and memes of their favorite artists. The united effort effectively drowned out the white-supremacist messaging that organizers of the hashtag were likely hoping to …
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Beyoncé demanded justice for George Floyd in a rare social media video statement Saturday. “We need justice for George Floyd. We all witnessed his murder in broad daylight. We’re broken and we’re disgusted. We cannot normalize this pain,” Beyoncé said in the video posted Saturday. “I’m not only speaking to …
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Midland took their name from a Dwight Yoakam song (“Fair to Midland”), and they nod to the neo-traditionalist once again in the title of a new acoustic EP. Guitars, Couches, Etc., Etc., an allusion to Yoakam’s 1986 album Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc. Etc, features bare-bones renditions of some of the country …
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As the drive-in concerts trend picks up steam — four shows in Texas sold out so quickly that organizers added four more — Nashville has been slow so far to hop onboard. Keith Urban played a gig for health care workers in nearby Watertown earlier this month, and Michael W. …
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Choose Melanie C as your fighter in the action-packed video for new single “Blame It on Me.” The new track follows up her self-exploratory track “Who I Am.” Sylvie Weber directed the visual, which sees a woman working at her office job. In between spreadsheets and files, the office worker …
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To tide fans over after their co-headlining tour with Fall Out Boy was postponed due to COVID-19, Green Day and Weezer‘s Rivers Cuomo shared a pair of new covers: The California trio released a rendition of Blondie’s “Dreaming” and Cuomo cued up Green Day’s own graduation season classic, “Time of …
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