Years ago, venue owners across New York were probably getting calls from a person with a weird accent pitching a young star named Lady Gaga. Turns out, it might’ve been Gaga herself. During her Hot Ones interview, the pop star looked back at her early days and reminisced on how …
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Earlier this month, Chappell Roan closed her rousing Grammy Awards speech with a pointed question: “Labels, we got you, but do you got us?” That one moment of advocating for artists to have access to livable wages and healthcare has already inspired tangible results in the music industry. Universal Music …
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In the summer of 2004, Kevin Barnes was in need of some encouragement. After eight years and six albums, their Athens, Georgia-based indie band, Of Montreal, was just beginning to put together an audience. Barnes, newly married with a baby on the way, wasn’t sure it made sense to keep …
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Halsey went all out in their planning: they dyed their hair blue, kicked Joe Jonas off the guest list, and scrapped an appearance from a child choir singer performing “Hallelujah.” Come to find out, they didn’t actually need to do any of it. See, Halsey was under the impression that …
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Questlove’s Sly Stone documentary Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), out now on Hulu, features interviews with artists like D’Angelo, Q-Tip, and Andre 3000 talking about the Family Stone legend but doesn’t feature Stone himself reflecting on his legacy. During a Q&A for the documentary, producer Joseph Patel …
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“When I started out, I wanted to be really famous,” Janis Ian says in the trailer for her upcoming documentary. “So naive.” In the exclusive trailer above, Varda Bar-Kar’s Janis Ian: Breaking Silence follows the singer-songwriter’s career that kicked off in 1965, when a 14-year-old from New Jersey dropped the …
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Macklemore released “Fucked Up” on Thursday, another impassioned protest song about societal ills. On the three-minute, self-produced track, Macklemore opines, “The world’s on fire, we don’t own the water y’all,” a literal commentary on the LA wildfires and a metaphorical evaluation of class disparity. Elsewhere on the horn-driven track, the …
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Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR have released the track list for their $ome $exy $ongs 4 U album before its Valentine’s Day release. The OVO labelmates shared the graphic on Instagram, describing the 21-track project as “74 personal minutes by PARTYNEXTDOOR and Drake.” No feature artists appear on the tracklist, though their …
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Who the fuck is Johnny Blue Skies? Fans may get the answer when Sturgill Simpson kicks off his 2025 headlining tour of that name in April. Simpson released his first album in three years, Passage du Desir, under the “Johnny Blue Skies” moniker in the summer of 2024. Set to …
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Five years after the Covid-related death of Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, the band’s surviving members will reunite for their first public performance in a dozen years. Milwaukee’s Summerfest announced its lineup Wednesday, and deep on the bill was Fountains of Wayne; the band’s founding members — singer Chris Collingwood, …
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