Ed Sheeran’s music videos for “Thinking Out Loud” and “Sing” have chalked up 335 million and 107 million views on YouTube, respectively, so it’s no wonder the British singer was among the 50 artists honored with a 2015 YouTube Music Award. To celebrate the win, Sheeran has unleashed his and… Source: RollingStone Link: Ray Liotta […]
Action Bronson is so New York that four years into a successful rap career, he still imagines luxury as a subway ride through Queens. “Tell the pilot land the plane/on Roosevelt and Main/Put a jacuzzi on the 7 train and lay,” he commands on “Easy Rider.” These sort of tight,… Source: RollingStone Link: Mr. Wonderful
As one of the breakout artists of 2014, Charli XCX earned her YouTube Music Award on the strength of music videos for Sucker singles “Boom Clap,” “Break the Rules” and the singer’s “Fancy” collaboration with Iggy Azalea. As part of the 2015 YouTube Music Awards, the singer teamed up with Eric Wareheim of Tim… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Charli […]
The musical about the life of Carole King, featuring many of the songwriting legend’s most famous tracks, is already a hit on Broadway, and after conquering the Great White Way and London’s West End, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is heading to Hollywood for a big screen makeover. Sony Pictures announced plans… Source: RollingStone Link: Carole King […]
Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr says the “time has come to tell my story” in a new autobiography scheduled for release in Autumn 2016 through publisher Century, The Book Seller reports. The as-yet-untitled book will be come out in hardback and e-book formats, with an Arrow paperback planned for 2017. Century reportedly acquired the book… Source: RollingStone Link: Johnny […]
Just days after it was revealed that Steven “A$AP Yams” Rodriguez died from “an acute mixed-drug intoxication,” his friend and protégé A$AP Rocky opened up to the New York Times to discuss the death of influential hip-hop figure and the A$AP Mob founder’s continual struggles with drug addiction. “Yams was like a mystery. He… Source: RollingStone Link: A$AP […]
The South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, is filled with excess: thousands of shows, thousands of music fans, an uncountable number of plates of BBQ. If something at SXSW is worth doing, it’s worth overdoing — a premise breakout star Courtney Barnett lived out by doing eight sets before… Source: RollingStone Link: 50 Best […]
Fresh off premiering their new album, The Magic Whip, at a small club gig in London, Blur have revealed “Lonesome Street,” another track from their highly anticipated reunion LP. The tune, which opens the new record and finds frontman Damon Albarn singing words of assurance like, “If you have nobody left to rely… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Blur's […]
This deep set by the great R&B-gospel mediator Roebuck “Pops” Staples is a rare example of a posthumous reclamation that feels stronger than the original might’ve been. Working with unfinished 1999 tracks (originally intended for a lost Staple Singers album), producer Jeff Tweedy isolated voices and Pops’ quicksilver guitar — like… Source: RollingStone Link: Don't Lose […]
As Lady Lamb, 25-year-old Maine native Aly Spaltro spins heavy psychedelic tales that blur the borders between reality, dream and nightmare. “Dear Arkansas Daughter” compares heartbreak to sinking to the bottom of the ocean floor over gloomy, Crazy Horse-style guitar chug. On the dark prayer “Spat Out Spit,” Spaltro wonders,… Source: RollingStone Link: After