Major Lazer and Mumford & Sons’ Marcus Mumford recruited more than 200 artists from 28 countries for the Earth Day-inspired video for their collaborative single “Lay Your Head on Me.” Over the past month, with musicians and dancers around the world self-isolating due to the coronavirus outbreak, the video’s director …
Read More »Indie Artists Have More Power Than Ever in Sweden. Could Covid-19 Lockdown Take the Trend Global?
On March 11th, as global measures to stop the spread of Covid-19 began to escalate, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a ban on travel from mainland Europe to the United States. In a different era, this would have spelled troubling news for the entire Swedish music industry — which has …
Read More »Social Distancing With Sparks' Ron Mael: Music, Masks and Foreign Hand Sanitizer
As the world fights a pandemic, we reached out to some of our favorite artists with a few quarantine questions about these unprecedented times. Here’s what Ron Mael of Sparks had to say. The band’s new album, A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, drops digitally on May 15. What are you …
Read More »Watch Paul McCartney's Heartfelt 'Lady Madonna' From 'One World: Together at Home' Special
Paul McCartney performed a touching solo rendition of the Beatles’ “Lady Madonna” during Global Citizen’s One World: Together at Home special, which raised funds for global COVID-19 response efforts. “I’m very honored to be part of this program tonight that celebrates the true heroes: Our health care workers all around …
Read More »Hear Hootie and the Blowfish Cover R.E.M.'s 'Losing My Religion'
Hootie and the Blowfish have released a cover of R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion,” available to stream and purchase exclusively on Amazon Music. “When we were cutting our teeth as a band, almost every night fans would hear us onstage covering R.E.M.,” Hootie and the Blowfish frontman and South Carolina native …
Read More »Playboi Carti (Officially) Returns on New Track '@ MEH'
Playboi Carti has very little to say. That’s not a slight; Carti’s raison d’etre is making music that’s as dynamic as possible, which for him often means relying on lyrics as little as possible. Listening to a Carti song is to surrender oneself to an impenetrable world of loose enunciation, …
Read More »Jimmy Webb, New York Punk-Style Icon Beloved by Rock Royalty, Dead at 62
Jimmy Webb, the iconic manager and buyer from famed New York clothing store Trash and Vaudeville, who later opened his own shop, named I NEED MORE, died Tuesday morning at the age of 62. Webb’s friend Heart Montalbano confirmed his death to Rolling Stone, adding that the cause of death …
Read More »Selena Gomez Sues Mobile Game Maker for Allegedly Stealing Her Likeness
Selena Gomez is suing the makers of the mobile game Clothes Forever — Styling Game for up to $10 million, claiming that they stole her image and likeness. Clothes Forever, which is available on the Apple App Store, allows players to work as a virtual stylist, and its description touts …
Read More »'Better Call Saul' Recap: Welcome to the Dark Side
A review of this week’s Better Call Saul, “Bad Choice Road,” coming up just as soon as I leave the Yankees to play amateur ring toss… “Oh, Jesus, what have I got myself involved with here?” —Jimmy So, do we need to start referring to Kim Wexler as The One …
Read More »Roger Waters Remembers John Prine With Acoustic 'Paradise' Cover
Roger Waters remembered John Prine with an acoustic rendition of the late singer-songwriter’s “Paradise.” “My friend John Prine died. This is his song, ‘Paradise,’” Waters wrote in the caption of the YouTube video. “Miss you, brother.” After a weeklong hospitalization, Prine died Tuesday at the age of 73 from complications …
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