Eminem offers a tour of his hometown in the new virtual reality film, Marshall From Detroit. The project premiered at Sundance and is now available for free on Oculus Go, Oculus Rift and the Samsung Gear VR. Caleb Slain directed the 21-minute film, in which Eminem travels around Detroit and …
Read More »Lydia Loveless on Sexual Misconduct Allegations in Music Industry
Two days after the New York Times ran their report on Ryan Adams and his alleged history of sexual misconduct, emotional abuse and attempts to use his power to silence and manipulate women, alt-country singer-songwriter Lydia Loveless was sitting in bed, angry. So she sent a tweet: “Not really at …
Read More »Tom Morello Details North American Headlining Tour
Tom Morello will embark on a headlining tour this May in support of his his latest solo album, The Atlas Underground. The 14-date trek opens May 3rd with a set at the Welcome to Rockville festival in Jacksonville, Florida and wraps May 24th in George, Washington with a performance at …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Sigrid, 'Sucker Punch'
This singer from a tiny town in Norway first broke out in early 2017 with her rapturously cheesed off European hit, “Don’t Kill My Vibe,” the promising work of a then-20-year-old taking advantage of the wide open emotional spaces Robyn and Lorde had opened up in the club. Later that …
Read More »Hear T.I. Slam Floyd Mayweather in New Diss Track 'F-ck Ni-a'
T.I. has slammed Floyd Mayweather in a diss track for his support of Gucci following the clothing designer’s release of a controversial black balaclava-style knit top, which resembles blackface. While the song “Fuck Nigga” doesn’t call out the boxer by name, it doesn’t pull punches against someone who continues to …
Read More »See Folk Duo Rising Appalachia's Sun-Kissed Video for 'Harmonize'
Folk duo Rising Appalachia commune with nature in their new video for the gentle ballad “Harmonize.” Made up of sisters Leah and Chloe Smith, the band highlight their brand of acoustic folk and the natural vocal interplay that underscores the song’s title. In the clip, the siblings are seen strumming …
Read More »Grammys 2019: Watch Alicia Keys Kicks Things Off With Michelle Obama, Lady Gaga
Alicia Keys joked about the power of music and showed the crowd “who runs the world” during opening monologue for the 2019 Grammy Awards at Los Angeles’ Staples Center. Keys kicked things off by calling out her friends in the audience. “When you really want to say something, you say …
Read More »Linda Ronstadt on New Live Album, Life With Parkinson's and Modern Country Music
“I feel if I were to organize it correctly I would try to sing like a Mexican and think like a German. You know what I mean? I get it mixed up,” Linda Ronstadt joked to Rolling Stone in 1978. The quip was a comical reference to her Mexican-German heritage …
Read More »Ariana Grande Skipping Grammys Because Producer 'Stifled' Her Creativity
Whether or not Ariana Grande wins any Grammy Awards this weekend, she won’t be there to personally collect them. Grande said that she’s skipping the event because she felt “creatively stifled” by the award show’s producer, Ken Ehrlich. She names him directly in a thread of tweetsthat stem from an …
Read More »Inside 'ReMastered': Netflix's Gritty New Music-Doc Series
Anyone who thinks making a music documentary is easy wasn’t in director Kief Davidson’s shoes when he was in Jamaica researching the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in 1976. Davidson and his crew were taken to sketchy neighborhoods in Kingston, where a police station had been shot up the night …
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