2018 has been a busy year for Southern rock band Blackberry Smoke, with the release of their sixth LP Find a Light and the Southern Ground Sessions EP as well as a world tour that currently has them in the United Kingdom. Now the group’s Find a Light Tour has …
Read More »See Tim McGraw's Spiritual 'Neon Church' Video
A drifter, a sheriff, a preacher and a single mom walk into a bar — it sounds like the start of a poorly conceived joke, but it’s actually the plot of the somber and spiritual new video for Tim McGraw‘s “Neon Church.” Out today, the Shane Drake-directed clip offers a …
Read More »'The Color Purple' Broadway Musical Eyes Big Screen Adaptation
Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and Quincy Jones will serve as producers on a big-screen adaptation of The Color Purple musical. The musical is based on the 2005 Broadway show that put the Oscar-nominated 1985 film – itself an adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel by Alice Walker – to …
Read More »Review: Shad Stays Positive Amidst Global Chaos on 'A Story About War'
This Canadian is an award-winning rapper in his homeland — his 2011 albumTSOLearned a Juno for Rap Recording of the Year, beating out Drake’sTake Care. But in the U.S., he hadn’t drawn much notice until he began hosting Netflix’s rap history seriesHip-Hop Evolution. His new album is typical of his …
Read More »Lil Peep's Mom Co-Directed His New Posthumous Music Video, 'Runaway'
Lil Peep’s mother, Liza Womack, is carrying the torch of her son’s legacy after his death earlier this year. In “Runaway” the latest visual from Peep’s Come Over When You’re Sober Pt. 2, Womack and Steven Mertens direct a story — with footage from Richard Stilwell — based on Gus …
Read More »Phish Perform Halloween Show as Fake Scandinavian Band Kasvot Vaxt
Phish performed the second set of their Halloween show in Las Vegas as a Scandinavian prog rock outfit called, Kasvot Växt. The group performed their sole album,í rokk,and when translated togetherKasvot Växt andí rokk means “Faceplant into rock.” For more than a decade, Phish have typically used their Halloween shows …
Read More »Watch Kiss Perform 'Love Gun' in Raucous Appearance on 'Fallon'
Halloween might as well be a national day of Kiss observance as far as the band is concerned. What better way to officiate your own party than rocking theTonight Show stage? Kiss brought all the bombastic lasers, pyrotechnics, leather-studded vets, hairy chests and ghoulish clown makeup they’re famous for and …
Read More »Ozzy Osbourne: On the Road With the Prince of Darkness
O zzy Osbourne will never forget the terrible tremor that overtook his body in the early Nineties. “It was like having my skeleton ripped out of my body every day,” he says, looking surprisingly serene given the subject matter. “It hurt really deep inside. I thought it was due to …
Read More »Travis Scott Voices Support for Beto O'Rourke at Houston Rally
While his mentor Kanye West incoherently promotes an exodus of black voters from the Democratic Party, Travis Scott entered the political fray with a different approach. On Sunday, the rapper made an appearance as the special guest at a rally for Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic candidate hopeful to unseat Senator …
Read More »5 Things We Learned from Netflix's New Bob Marley Doc
For all the scholarship that exists on pop history, plenty of mysteries remain: Who killed Jam Master Jay; what precisely happened on the night of Sam Cooke’s death; and what exactly was the relationship between Johnny Cash and Richard Nixon? Netflix’s new ReMastereddocuseries seeks to investigate these and other tales …
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