John Mayer has released a very silly music video for “Wild Blue,” the latest single from his new album Sob Rock. If you’ve seen Mayer’s past videos for songs like “New Light,” you’ll understand the vibe of this one right away: the singer and guitarist performs up in the clouds, …
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Machine Gun Kelly has dropped the video for new song “Papercuts.” The track will appear on his upcoming album, Born With Horns. The Cole Bennett-directed clip opens with black-and-white footage showcasing MGK riding a motorcycle with gigantic horns down Sunset Boulevard. The lyrics delve into the struggle with finding balance …
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Last week, Bruce Dickinson abruptly postponed the last two dates of his U.K. spoken-word tour because a member of his immediate household had tested positive for Covid-19. So the Iron Maiden frontman returned home to quarantine for 10 days, per government guidelines. For the first few days, he mostly felt …
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Big Red Machine stopped by The Late Show to showcase their new song “New Auburn.” In the performance, Aaron Dessner takes on the piano part and is joined by Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, Anais Mitchell, the Westerlies, and the National’s Scott Devendorf, as well as drummer JT Bates and keyboardist …
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Duran Duran has released a new single, “More Joy,” featuring a guest appearance from Japanese rock band CHAI. The song will appear on the band’s upcoming 15th studio albumFuture Past, out October 22nd via Tape Modern for EMG. “More Joy” also features a contribution from Blur guitarist Graham Coxon. “The …
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A jukebox musical based on the songs of Adam Schlesinger will play at this year’s Adirondack Theatre Festival, August 5th through 14th. TitledTraffic & Weather, after the 2007 album from Schlesinger’s band Fountains of Wayne, the stage performance will feature the work of the late musician to tell a meet-cute …
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Never-before-seen footage from Chris Cornell’s final photoshoot will be minted and sold as non-fungible tokens. The sale will launch this Thursday, August 5th at 12 a.m. ET via Cryptograph. The Last Session NFTs were taken from a photoshoot Cornell did with photographer Randall Slavin in 2017, not long before his …
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Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival co-founder Paul Tollett revealed that Frank Ocean is set to headline the festival in 2023 in a newLos Angeles Times profile. Ocean was originally slated to co-headline the 2020 festival with Rage Against the Machine and Travis Scott, but after Coachella was rescheduled to …
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DaBaby told Questlove he doesn’t know who he is in response to the Roots’ drummer’s criticism of the rapper’s homophobic comments and insensitive remarks about people with HIV/AIDS at Rolling Loud, and his subsequent doubling down. On Wednesday night, July 28th, Questlove condemned DaBaby on Instagram, sharing the lineup he …
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A music festival, held in 1969, is filmed — bits of it airing on local TV — but then shelved for decades before it’s resurrected for a new film. No, it’s not Summer of Soul. It’s Memphis ’69, a recently completed doc — which starts airing next week — that …
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