Brandi Carlile made an unannounced appearance at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland on Saturday night. Joined by her bandmates Tim and Phil Hanseroth, she sang a lovely and understated acoustic version of “All I Have to Do Is Dream” at the end of the …
Read More »Guns N' Roses Are Fully Back — But Slash Can't Quit His Solo Career
Slash just finished the latest leg of a world tour with Guns N’ Roses, and they’ve got multiple new singles out — a sentence that would have seemed laughably implausible less than a decade ago. Even with hard-rock hell fully frozen over, though, Slash just can’t stop releasing solo material. …
Read More »Nandi Bushell Inspires Kids to Embrace Their True Selves in 'Redraw Your World'
Nandi Bushell and Cartoon Network have teamed up for a campaign called “Redraw Your World.” The initiative seeks to encourage kids to be true to themselves and have confidence that they can help change the world. The clip features the drumming phenom performing “Drawsticks” — written, produced, and engineered by …
Read More »The Beatles Are Under Pressure to Cut an Album in Two Weeks in First 'Get Back' Trailer
Disney+ have shared the first trailer for its original docuseries The Beatles: Get Back, arriving on the streaming service this Thanksgiving weekend. The Peter Jackson-directed docuseries includes never-before-seen restored footage. The three-part series debuts on November 25th and continues on November 26th and 27th. The much-anticipated Get Back follows the …
Read More »Lil Wayne Has Dropped a New (Old) Song, 'Ya Dig'
Lil Wayne unexpectedly dropped a new song on streaming services Thursday, with “Ya Dig” arriving without much fanfare less than a week after the rapper released his collaborative Trust Fund Babies mixtape with Rich the Kid. However, the new song is anything but: According to Lil Wayne HQ, “Ya Dig” …
Read More »Kanye West's Grand Technological Plans Include 'Donda' Trademark for Smartphones, Kitchen Magnets
Kanye West appears to have a characteristically grand vision for a new line of tech equipment, filing a trademark application to use “Donda” on an array of electronic equipment from wireless headphones to decorative magnets. West’s Mascotte Holdings company filed the trademark application on September 21st, per the United States …
Read More »Do These Mysterious '30' Billboards Mean Adele Is Back?
UPDATE: On Friday night, projections of the “30” appeared in a variety of noteworthy places worldwide, including outside the Louvre in Paris, on the Colosseum in Rome and near the top of the Empire State Building in New York. – Like the Bat-Signal shining bright in the night, an array …
Read More »Idles Preview New Album With 'The Beachland Ballroom'
Idles have announced their upcoming album, Crawler, and dropped the video for its first single, “The Beachland Ballroom.” The follow-up to last year’s Ultra Mono, Crawler arrives on November 12th via Partisan. Co-produced by Kenny Beats and Idles guitarist Mark Bowen, Idles recorded the album during the pandemic at Real …
Read More »R. Kelly's Defense Opens With Excuses and Missing Witnesses
By the time the prosecution rested its case against R. Kelly on Monday, it had presented a formidable body of evidence against the disgraced singer: A woman testified that Kelly trapped her in his studio and raped her; a former backup dancer said she saw the singer perform oral sex …
Read More »See Pearl Jam Debut 'Gigaton' Songs Live at First Concert in 3 Years
Pearl Jam performed a handful of songs from their latest LP Gigaton live for the first time and paid tribute to Bruce Springsteen and Charlie Watts Saturday during the band’s headlining set at Asbury Park, New Jersey’s Sea.Hear.Now Festival, a gig that also marked Pearl Jam’s first concert in over …
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