Big Freedia is gearing up to release her first-ever gospel record. On Monday, the bounce icon announced her LP Pressing Onward, and shared its track list, which includes collaborations with Billy Porter and Tamar Braxton. “This album started as a message of healing for the world — but now, it’s …
Read More »Watch Toy Factory Project Make Live Debut at Telluride Bluegrass Fest
This past weekend, under a canopy of stars in the depths of the San Juan Mountains in Colorado, Marcus King stepped up to the microphone and tore into a rendition of the Marshall Tucker Band’s “Can’t You See” at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival. “I’m gonna take a freight train, down …
Read More »Jessie J Shares the 'Honest Lows and Highs' After Undergoing Breast Cancer Surgery
In one slide of Jessie J‘s recent 16-part photo dump on Instagram, the singer watched back a clip from her performance at Capital’s Summertime Ball. On stage at Wembley Stadium in London, she told the audience, “This show is my last show before I go and beat breast cancer.” Revisiting …
Read More »Morrissey Struggles to Complete Europe Tour, Citing 'No Financial Support' From Music Industry
Fans who purchased tickets to see Morrissey in Stockholm, Sweden, on Monday, June 23, were ultimately left without plans for the night when the musician cancelled on the eve of the concert. On his official website, Morrissey claimed he’s been struggling to secure support from the music industry in order …
Read More »Paramore and HalfNoise's Zac Farro Announces Solo Album 'Operator'
Zac Farro has scattered himself across three musical entities. There’s HalfNoise, the psych-rock band he formed in 2010, and most obviously, there’s Paramore, the genre-spanning band he slipped away from that same year and returned to seven years later. The drummer found a balance between the two projects. For a …
Read More »Mac DeMarco Goes 'Home' to His 'Guitar' on New Album
Mac DeMarco is heading home again as he announces his new album Guitar. It’s unclear whether the singer-songwriter aims to return to his native Canada or honor his current home of Los Angeles, where DeMarco recorded the entirety of the album. Guitar marks DeMarco’s seventh LP and is out Aug. …
Read More »Haim Put Their 'Headphones On' for Addison Rae, Janet Jackson Mashup in BBC Live Lounge
Haim delivered a decade-spanning performance for their latest appearance in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge. The trio selected Addison Rae‘s single “Headphones On” for the cover portion of their mini-set, but echoed the song with a twist. With Danielle Haim at the helm, the group mixed Janet Jackson‘s 1997 …
Read More »Ronnie McDowell Discharged After Being Hospitalized for Slurring Words Onstage
Ronnie McDowell is headed home. The 75-year-old country musician was hospitalized in Pennsylvania over the weekend after he was seen slurring his words onstage during a show at the Summer Solstice Music Festival in Oley. Now, his son says he’s been discharged. McDowell’s tour manager told Nashville local outlet WKRN …
Read More »Mick Ralphs, Guitarist in Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, Dead at 81
Mick Ralphs, whose guitar and songwriting powered two classic British bands, Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, has died. A spokesperson for Ralphs’ family confirmed the news to Rolling Stone. Ralphs was 81. In 2016, Ralphs suffered a stroke after a series of Bad Company shows in the U.K. and …
Read More »Cardi B Finally Announces New Album 'Am I the Drama?,' Shares Release Date and Cover Art
Cardi B has announced her long-awaited sophomore album, Am I the Drama?, by revealing its cover art and release date across social media. The follow-up to her Grammy-winning, four-times platinum debut 2018 album Invasion of Privacy has been hotly anticipated in the years since, often stoked by Cardi teasing a …
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