A “director’s cut” edition of Solange‘s visual album When I Get Home will screen at art museums and theaters across the U.S. beginning next week. The extended version of the short film, released in March to coincide with the release of the singer’s new album, will feature “new scenes and …
Read More »Watch Ed Sheeran Play Dress Up in Cinematic 'Antisocial' Video
Ed Sheeran‘s new album No.6 Collaborations Projecthas arrived and with it a music video for “Antisocial,” his joint track with Travis Scott. The slightly bonkers clip, directed by Dave Meyers and written by Matt Walton, sees Sheeran embodying numerous characters, with numerous wigs. Movie references abound, including a particularly horrifying …
Read More »Flashback: Waylon Jennings Signs With A&M, Cuts Haunting 'Love Denied'
On July 9th, 1963, Waylon Jennings was living and playing in Phoenix, Arizona, when he received a recording contract in the mail. His friend, songwriter and comedian Don Bowman, had taken Jennings’ demo recordings to Jerry Moss, who with trumpet-playing bandleader Herb Alpert, had started a small label called A&M …
Read More »How Taylor Swift Accidentally Helped Delta Rae Fund Their New Album
Delta Rae had some big news they were keeping under wraps until the timing was right. Signed to Big Machine since 2015, they had been released from their record deal after months of negotiating, an announcement they planned to make at the start of July. “We had a whole timeline …
Read More »Fiona Apple Pledges Two Years of 'Criminal' Royalties to Refugees
Fiona Apple is donating the 2019 and 2020 earnings from TV and movie placements of her song “Criminal” to the While They Wait fund, which assists refugees with basic necessities, immigration fees and legal services. “After months and months of reading the news about how my country is treating refugees, …
Read More »Watch Trisha Yearwood's Inspiring 'Every Girl in This Town' Video
Trisha Yearwood’s inspirational new video for her current single, “Every Girl in This Town,” spotlights the award-winning singer joined by an all-female cast of extras, with girls and women representing an array of ages, races and types, finding commonality in the idea of just being themselves. Directed by Blythe Thomas, …
Read More »Wilco Expand Fall North American Tour
Wilco have added additional dates to their upcoming fall North American tour. In addition to a second New York show at Brooklyn Steel on October 13th, the 29-date tour will now run through November. After two back-to-back live tapings at Austin’s Moody Theater, the band will hit Grand Rapids on …
Read More »How Colbie Caillat Went From 'Bubbly' to Country With New Band Gone West
Back when a then-unknown Colbie Caillat released her breakthrough song “Bubbly” in 2007, in a time when MySpace still walked the earth, she and her songwriting partner Jason Reeves didn’t know what to call the relaxed, acoustic pop song when they posted it to her gleefully decorated profile. So they …
Read More »Halsey: A Rebel at Peace
T his may come as a surprise to no one, but Halsey is pretty good with a knife. Today she is wielding it against a cucumber, which would seem like a joke or a meme — given her man-eater rep in the pop-star pantheon — were it not for the …
Read More »Hear Mac Miller's Joyful Turn on 88-Keys' New Song 'That's Life'
Since Mac Miller’s death in September 2018 at age 26, little has emerged in terms of the rapper’s posthumous music. That’s changing. Earlier this month, the Free Nationals released a song that they recorded with Miller. And today, 88-Keys released a heartfelt track he recorded with Miller, which has the …
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