Up-and-coming rapper Coi Leray made her TV debut on The Tonight Show with a lively rendition of “No More Parties.” In the clip, Leray is joined by a group of dancers who move to the music around a beer pong table. “No More Parties” became a hit on its release …
Read More »The Flaming Lips Return to the First Venue They Played for 'Will You Return/When You Come Down'
The Flaming Lips performed “Will You Return/When You Come Down,” with an assist from artist/musician/Willie Nelson’s son, J. Micah Nelson, on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday, April 26th. As Jimmy Kimmel noted, the performance was taped at the first venue the Flaming Lips ever played, the Blue Note in the band’s …
Read More »Watch DMX's 'Homegoing Celebration' Funeral Livestream
Following the DMX: Celebration of Life memorial Saturday Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, the rapper born Earl Simmons will be laid to rest Sunday at a private Homegoing Celebration at an undisclosed church in the New York area. While the funeral is for friends and family only, BET will livestream the Homegoing …
Read More »See Alan Vega's Stark Video for 'Muscles,' Off Posthumous 'Mutator' Album
A recently rediscovered song by Alan Vega called “Muscles” is getting a new life on a just-released posthumous album, Mutator. The track is cold, grimy, echoey, and unsettling, as any track by the late Suicide frontman ought to be, as he sings about “life in the Rainbow Room” and yelps …
Read More »How Beach House Created a Soundtrack for a Psychedelic Las Vegas Supermarket
If you’re looking for music that feels like a dream, plunging the listener into an alternate world where everything gleams with a strange, gentle beauty, few artists will meet that need better than Beach House. So, naturally, when the arts collective Meow Wolf needed a soundtrack for a trippy new …
Read More »Watch Ozzy Osbourne, Liam Gallagher Talk Rockfield Studios in Upcoming Doc
Ozzy Osbourne and Liam Gallagher discuss the legacy of Rockfield Studios in the upcoming documentary Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm, out next month. Rockfield — originally a farm that was converted into a studio by brothers Kingsley and Charles Ward — is known as the world’s first residential studio. …
Read More »Boy George Biopic in the Works
A Boy George biopic may be in production as soon as this summer.Deadline reports that the project,titledKarma Chameleon, has moved from MGM to Millennium Media and is looking at a summer 2021 shoot in London and Bulgaria. On Tuesday, Boy George himself released a video stating that a casting call …
Read More »H.E.R. Performs Oscar-Nominated 'Fight for You' on 'Fallon'
H.E.R. performed her song from the Judas and the Black Messiah soundtrack, “Fight for You,” on The Tonight Show Monday, April 12th. The performance appeared to be filmed in one long shot, and it opened with H.E.R. singing the track and playing drums in an otherwise empty alley. By the …
Read More »Sean Combs Pens Open Letter Criticizing GM Over Black Media Ad Spending
Sean Combs penned an open letter to General Motors Thursday criticizing the auto giant for its lack of advertising spending with black-owned media companies. Writing on his own Revolt, the media mogul took umbrage with GM mentioning Revolt as a significant recipient of their ad spending. “When confronted by the …
Read More »Hear Radiohead's Ed O'Brien Remix Paul McCartney's 'Slidin'
Paul McCartney has released Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien‘s remix of his song “Slidin’.” The song will appear on McCartney’s upcoming release, McCartney III Imagined, which features numerous artists putting their own spin on songs from last year’s McCartney III. O’Brien shared the story of his remix on BBC Radio 6 …
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