Mumford & Sons reflect on their career journey in their new Vevo short film, 12 Years Strong, which includes performances of “Guiding Light” and “Forever” featuring Americana resonator and lap steel guitarist Jerry Douglas. “[2012’s sophomore album] Babel just blew up faster than we ever thought it might,” frontman Marcus …
Read More »Prince's Revolution Keyboardist Lisa Coleman Releases First Solo LP
Keyboardist Lisa Coleman, who joined Prince‘s band in 1980 for the Dirty Mind tour and was a member of his backing band the Revolution, has put out her first solo album. Collage contains 11 mostly short, sometimes ethereal, sometimes jammy instrumental piano improvisations with titles like “Piano Improv 77” and …
Read More »Beyonce's 'Lemonade' Finally Joins Spotify and Apple Music
Three years after its release, Beyonce’s Lemonade album has been added to streaming services, including Spotify, Deezer and Apple Music. Previously, in order to hear the album or watch the accompanying film fans to be subscribers to TIDAL, the music service co-owned by Beyonce and Jay-Z. The streaming version of …
Read More »Lizzo Is Her Own Hero on the Legend-Making 'Cuz I Love You'
“Be eternal.” That’s the advice Lizzo got from one of her first high-profile fans, Prince. And she lives up to the Purple One’s words on her legend-making Cuz I Love You, the breakthrough album where she finally claims her baby-I’m-a-star crown as a mega-pop queen. Melissa Jefferson can do it …
Read More »Watch Leslie Jones and Seth Meyers Hilariously React to 'Game of Thrones'
Saturday Night Live star Leslie Jones has some strong opinions about Game of Thrones. In a recurring feature called “Game of Jones,” Seth Meyers invites Jones to watch and react to episodes of the HBO show, which the pair are continuing for the eighth and final season. In a new …
Read More »'Ramy' Review: Hulu's Second-Generation-Blues Dramedy Is a Triumph
Meet Ramy Hassan. He’s 27 years old and lives in Rutherford, New Jersey, with his parents and his younger sister; he was going to get a place of his own, but then the start-up he worked at went belly-up. Now he schleps for his uncle in New York’s diamond district …
Read More »Tangerine Dream Unearth 'Phaedra' Outtakes for Massive Seventies Box Set
Revered progressive electronic act Tangerine Dream have collected previously unheard outtakes, live footage, 5.1 surround sound versions and newly remastered studio tracks for the upcoming box set In Search of Hades: The Virgin Recordings 1973 – 1979, out June 14th via UMC-Virgin. The 16-CD/2-Blu-Ray Ultra Deluxe version collects the band’s …
Read More »Hear Mavis Staples' Funky New Song 'Anytime'
Mavis Staples gets funky with the new song “Anytime,” from her upcoming album We Get By. Produced by Ben Harper, the full project will be released May 10th. “Give me a one way ticket, somewhere I’ve never been/I’m rock, paper, scissors and I’m bound to win,” sings Staples, her inimitable …
Read More »Mary J. Blige, Nas Team Up for Summer Tour
UPDATE: Mary J. Blige and Nas have extended their co-headlining summer tour with five new U.S. dates. The duo will now perform August 28th in Brooklyn; August 29th in Baltimore, Maryland; September 8th in Newark, New Jersey; September 12th in Indianapolis, Indiana; and September 17th in Los Angeles. General tickets …
Read More »'The Perfection': Allison Williams Cuts Down Musical Competition in Frightening Trailer
A troubled musician becomes obsessed with her rival in the chilling new trailer for The Perfection, set to premiere on Netflix May 24th. The film stars Allison Williams as Charlotte, a disturbed musical prodigy who tracks down the latest star to emerge from her old music school, Elizabeth, played by …
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