Veteran Bay Area rapper Lyrics Born will release his eighth album, Real People on May 5th via his own label, Mobile Home Recordings. For the follow-up to 2010’s As U Were and The Second Album, his 2013 Latyrx album with longtime collaborator with Lateef the Truthspeaker, Lyrics Born decamped to New Orleans in search of a… Source: RollingStone Link: Cali […]
Jimmy Fallon’s ability to imitate musicians from across the pop spectrum has been a part of his arsenal since his Saturday Night Live days, but The Tonight Show host may have met his match Monday when he and Christina Aguilera went head to head in a game of “Wheel of Musical Impressions.” The bit got off to an… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
For the second time in The Voice history, Blake Shelton failed to turn his chair for a friend. But in the case of former Steel Magnolia singer Meghan Linsey, whose audition aired on Monday night’s season premiere of the hit NBC show, the country singer stood by his decision to… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Former […]
“Changes fill my time,” Robert Plant sings on the extended country-soul drama “Ten Years Gone.” It was a fitting sentiment. Led Zeppelin’s relentless, searching bravado across their first five albums — out of Delta and Memphis fundamentals through psychedelia, Welsh-country romanticism and North African fantasia — climaxed at the twin peaks of… Source: RollingStone Link: Physical Graffiti: […]
Two of the music world’s realest Gs joined forces on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Monday night: Warren and Kenny G took the stage for a funk-drenched, yet smooth, performance of the latter’s 1994 classic “Regulate.” Kenny G dutifully recreated the song’s slinking synth line on his trusty soprano saxophone, but also provided melodic… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
February 24th, 2015 marks the 40th anniversary of Led Zeppelin’s sixth LP, Physical Graffiti. Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil, no stranger to heavy riffs, reflects on how the double album shaped his life. I look back at Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti as being a collection of cool fucking riffs that I loved, but they… Source: RollingStone Link: Led […]
Chris Brown and Tyga present themselves as friends, but on their first full album together, they seem more like enablers. A true pal would have responded to lines like “She’ll cook and clean, I got it made/Handcuffed like she a slave” (from Tyga, on the narcissistic sex fantasy “Remember Me”)… Source: RollingStone Link: Fan of […]
Missy Elliott’s Super Bowl moment said plenty about hip-hop’s current creative drought. This timely set from four style-hungry producers recalls Elliott’s turn-of-the-century heyday, with post-national street beats and an army of fresh MCs and singers. It feels like a genuine next-generation moment. Dominican-American MC Maluca spits hot Spanish over a… Source: RollingStone Link: Future Brown
Over four years and two albums, Detroit rapper Big Sean has made his biggest mark as a semi-novelty hitmaker (the awesomely stupid “Dance (A$$),” the giddily spiteful “IDFWU”) and the worst part of at least five Kanye West songs. Big Sean is G.O.O.D. Music “trying to make ‘fetch’ happen” — keep supporting this guy, and… Source: RollingStone Link: Dark Sky […]
“I got them red-blooded white-boy blues,” Kid Rock sings. Now 44, he finds himself looking back wistfully, tracking the passage of time. He laments that “we can’t fight this getting older” — but the LP’s muscular rock & roll tells another story. The Kid has no intention of aging gracefully — happily,… Source: RollingStone Link: First Kiss