Considering the amount of classic rock covers Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox have performed in their quarantine video series, it’s shocking they haven’t taken on the Rolling Stones — but the couple rectifies that with a new clip of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” The video features Willcox in a …
Read More »Arlo Parks Is Building Worlds of Self-Love
The 20-year-old poet and singer Arlo Parks started releasing music as a teenager, courting blog interviews in between her final exams. Parks, who was raised in London by Nigerian and Chadian-French parents (her full name is Anaïs Oluwatoyin Estelle Marinho), went on to release a pair of acclaimed EPs, Super …
Read More »Pooh Shiesty Makes TV Debut With 'Back in Blood' on 'Fallon'
Pooh Shiesty stopped by The Tonight Show to perform his track “Back in Blood” with the help of Lil Durk. The live performance of the song, from the rapper’s recent debut mixtape Shiesty Season, marked Shiesty’s television debut. Standing in an alley surrounded by fog and car headlights, the rappers …
Read More »Watch Justin Bieber's 'Live From Paris' Concert Special
Justin Bieber performed a special 15-minute livestream concert from the rooftop of a Paris hotel to celebrate his new album Justice. The special, Live From Paris, aired on Bieber’s YouTube channel. Directed by David Ctiborsky, the concert revealed Bieber and his live band performing on a roof at sunset, with …
Read More »Hear ILoveMakonnen Surprise-Released New LP 'My Parade'
ILoveMakonnen surprise-released a new album, My Parade, on Tuesday, highlighted by lead single “Whoopsy” (featuring Payday). The track is built on woozy synth, grinding sub-bass and iLoveMakonnen’s recurring falsetto chirp of the title phrase. Payday pops up in the second half, tossing out brisk disses like “I ain’t even gotta …
Read More »Juanes Drops Cover of Fito Páez's 'El Amor Después del Amor'
Colombian rock great Juanes has released a new cover of Argentine musician Fito Páez’s 1992 classic, “El Amor Después del Amor.” The cover finds Juanes dropping the original’s horns and some of its other Nineties-style production hallmarks and presenting “El Amor Después del Amor” as more of a straight-ahead rocker …
Read More »Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals Announce Summer 2021 Dates
The Newport Folk Festival will be among the first music festivals to return post-pandemic, with the long-running fest set to return to the Rhode Island town over two three-day events spanning from July 23rd to the 28th. Newport Jazz Festival will also make its return from July 30th to August …
Read More »Best Albums of March 2021: Lana Del Rey, Serpentwithfeet, Selena Gomez, Adult Mom
Lana Del Rey, Chemtrails Over the Country Club Though Del Rey’s overall project has remained remarkably consistent throughout her career, her growing disillusionment with fame, and with this country’s prevailing iconography of wealth and success, has loomed large as the national mood has grown more dire. Her observations are somber …
Read More »Judge Issues Restraining Order Against Lil Nas X's 'Satan Shoes'
UPDATE (4/8): Nike has settled a lawsuit against Brooklyn art collective Mschf over “Satan shoes” the collective made in collaboration with Lil Nas X, Reuters reports. As part of the settlement, Mschf has agreed to a voluntary recall of the shoes and will offer full refunds to purchasers. *** A …
Read More »Nike Sues Designer of Lil Nas X 'Satan Shoes'
Nike has filed a lawsuit against MSCHF, the art collective that designed Lil Nas X’s “Satan shoes“, which went on sale Monday, March 29th. In the lawsuit, obtained by Rolling Stone, Nike said the “Satan shoe” was made without the company’s “approval or authorization.” It adds that the shoe is …
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