When director Dexter Fletcher signed on to make a movie about Elton John, he knew that a traditional docudrama — like Bohemian Rhapsody, say, or Walk the Line — simply wouldn’t fly. “Elton is all about fantasy and imagination and magic,” Fletcher says. “We wanted to use his songs to …
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Rita Ora remembers the first time she saw a photograph of Joni Mitchell. “I was like, ‘Who’s this awkward looking girl that’s got a guitar in her hand all the time?’” the English pop singer says in the latest episode of Spotify‘s Under Cover podcast. Ora was taken aback by …
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“I’ve got an old friend around here somewhere,” Steve Van Zandt told the crowd near at the end of his set at Asbury Park’s Paramount Theater on Wednesday night. “I don’t know where.” That seemed like a safe bet that Bruce Springsteen was somewhere in the house, but it wasn’t …
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James Felice was unsure if his band would ever make another record. It was 2017, and Felice, a multi-instrumentalist, secondary vocalist and founding member of the Hudson Valley roots-rock collective the Felice Brothers, had spent much of the year touring in Conor Oberst’s band alongside other members of the Felice …
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Days away from releasing his fourth studio album Here Comes the Cowboy, Mac DeMarco has released his third and final single “On the Square,” along with an insanely creepy video. Directed by William Sipos and Sean Campos, the video features a lone man in a theater (Tommy Midnight) watching a …
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Games of Thrones is a product. No matter how omnipresent the book-series-turned-TV-gets, it’s still just something that, by design, appeals to many millions of people. With that comes opportunities to sell some Game of Thronesstuff. Right now, if one was so inclined, they could dunk their Game of Thrones Oreos …
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Glen Campbell’s phenomenal recording career, which began in 1961 with his first single “Turn Around, Look at Me,” will be revisited in the upcoming release of The Legacy 1961-2017, an updated and expanded edition of the long-out-of-print box set originally released in 2003. The four-disc collection will be available June …
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This week, Moby will release his second memoir, Then It Fell Apart. Out May 7th, the book picks up where 2016’s Porcelain left off, chronicling the heady, hedonistic period after the release of his 1999 breakthrough, Play, which fused electronica with folk, blues and gospel. Play would go on to …
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Pharrell Williams’ inaugural version of his Something in the Water music festival in Virginia Beach was forced to cancel its first day Friday after a day-long deluge of heavy rains and wind. “Due to the impact caused by today’s severe weather at the beach venue, we are sorry to announce …
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Disco outfit KC & the Sunshine Band have teamed with fellow disco great Nile Rodgers for a thumping new song, “Give Me Some More (Aye Yai Yai).” The track was produced by Tony Moran and KC & the Sunshine Band have also commissioned a whopping 47 remixes for the track. …
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