Archive | August, 2015

One Direction Go to Space Camp in 'Drag Me Down' Video

One Direction go from global superstars to deep space-reaching astronauts in their new video for “Drag Me Down,” which was filmed at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. For the track, the quartet’s first song without Zayn Malik and the first single off their upcoming fifth album, 1D go through actual… Source: RollingStone Link: One Direction […]

Right Here Right Now

Jordin Sparks has made a career out of age-appropriate pop — catchy enough for the charts, tame enough for your parents. The 25-year-old star’s first new LP in six years sees her becoming sexier, sassier and shadier with time. Taking cues from R&B upstarts like Tinashe and Jhené Aiko, Sparks focuses… Source: RollingStone Link: Right Here […]

The Meth Lab

Back in the Nineties, you didn’t need a Ph.D. in Wu-Tang Clan science to get with Method Man, the Staten Island crew’s laid-back, approachable, gravel-voiced pop star. Meth has found success as an actor in the 2000s — most famously as Cheese on The Wire — but he can still bring the… Source: RollingStone Link: The Meth […]

The Great Unknown

Don’t let the title fool you: Rob Thomas remains a known quantity on his third solo album. While that means there aren’t many surprises, the good news is he’s still the same consummate pop-rock craftsman who has been making it all sound so smooth for years. Reunited with Matchbox Twenty… Source: RollingStone Link: The Great […]

'Minute of silence' for Europe's refugees tops Austrian iTunes chart

By Kieran Guilbert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A minute’s silence recorded by an Austrian artist to protest against the treatment of migrants in Europe and raise money for refugees in a center near Vienna has topped the country’s iTunes chart, despite only being released on Friday. Proceeds from Raoul Haspel’s track Schweigeminute (“Minute’s Silence”), […]

Carrie Underwood Announces New Album 'Storyteller'

Country radio stations all over the world received a big, unexpected surprise today: a new Carrie Underwood song. The uptempo “Smoke Break,” penned by the country superstar with longtime collaborators Hillary Lindsey (“Jesus, Take the Wheel,” “Two Black Cadillacs”) and Chris DeStefano (“Good Girl,” “Something in the Water”), is what… Source: RollingStone Link: Carrie Underwood […]