Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar have linked up for a new song, “Family Ties.” The track is split into two distinct halves, with Baby Keem opening the track with a barrage of bars that fly over sharp drums and, at first a blazing hornfarwe, before a lilting flute loop slides …
Read More »Watch Chvrches Showcase 'Good Girls' on 'Fallon'
Chvrches appeared on The Tonight Show for a raucous performance of their recent song “Good Girls.” Performing from a hilltop overlooking a city at night, the group juxtaposed a televised version of singer Lauren Mayberry with the real one. “Good Girls” comes off Chvrches’ upcoming fourth album, Screen Violence, out …
Read More »'The Coolest Dude to Play Rock & Roll': Patrick Carney Remembers Charlie Watts
The news about Charlie Watts, who died yesterday at 80, deeply impacted the Rolling Stones drummer’s colleagues and peers — but also subsequent generations of rockers. Like the Stones, the Black Keys cut their teeth on blues songs and went on to write their own material, songs that never lost …
Read More »RS Country Music Picks for the Week of August 23rd
Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Country selects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. (Check out our most recent …
Read More »Everly Brothers' Don Everly, Early Rock Pioneer, Dead at 84
Don Everly, half of one of rock’s earliest and most influential harmony groups, the Everly Brothers, died Saturday in his Nashville home at the age of 84. A rep for the singer confirmed his death to the Los Angeles Times. A cause of death was not immediately known. “Don lived …
Read More »3 Lessons I've Learned From An Influential Musician's Charity That Can Apply To Everyone In The Business World
In 1989, Aerosmith released their influential song, “Janie’s Got a Gun,” which focused on child abuse. Years later, Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler worked alongside Youth Villages and started a charity, Janie’s Fund, to aid girls and young women who’ve been victims of neglect and abuse. The fund has generated awareness …
Read More »'Reminiscence': Who Wants a Trip Down Sci-Fi Memory Lane?
His name is Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman), the kind of handle that suggests someone destined to be a private dick from the moment the doc slapped his pink keister. He’s not a detective, though. Not really. Nick deals in memories. In the retro-dystopic Miami that he calls home — the …
Read More »Daptone Records Previews 20th Anniversary Collection With New Songs From Naomi Shelton, Saun and Starr
Daptone Records has released two more tracks from its upcoming live compilation The Daptone Super Soul Revue Live at the Apollo: Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens’ “Thank You Lord” and Saun and Starr’s “Confess It.” “Thank You Lord” finds Shelton — who died earlier this year at the age …
Read More »How to Help Haiti Earthquake Victims
On Saturday, a devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake hitHaiti. More than 1,400 people were killed in the island nation, which was also the site of a massive earthquake in 2010, and at least 6,000 have been injured as of Tuesday, per the Associated Press. The earthquake hit about 80 miles west …
Read More »Bob Saget Buries Hatchet With Car Seat Headrest Over Feud That Wasn't Really a Feud
Comedian Bob Saget and Car Seat Headrest appear to have finally settled their extremely online spat, though one would not be blamed for not realizing the Full House star was “feuding” with the indie rock favorites (including the two parties involved). On Sunday, August 15th, Saget tweeted out an apology …
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