Father John Misty has released a sublime new song, “Real Love Baby,” explaining the track with a succinct two-word description on SoundCloud: “Why not.” The song finds Father John Misty — real name Josh Tillman — treading similar territory as he did on 2015’s I Love You, Honeybear. “Real Love Baby” moves sweetly with… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard the stats: Plastic is flooding our world. Our oceans bear the burden of five continent-sized mass accumulations of plastic, and unless our ravenous consumption of it changes, scientists predict there will be more plastic than fish in our oceans by 2050. How much garbage… Source: RollingStone Link: The […]
“Isn’t it strange that it’s legal to own a woman this way?” Source: Yahoo Music Link: Lady Gaga Defends Kesha After Dr. Luke Halts Billboard Music Awards Performance
Zendaya, Priyanka Chopra and ‘The Bachelorette’s’ JoJo Fletcher are among the stars added to the list of presenters. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Billboard Music Awards: Lukas Graham to Perform
Keith Urban also joins the lineup of musicians that will perform live in Nashville. Source: Yahoo Music Link: CMT Music Awards: Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan Among Performers
Okkervil River have announced details for new album, Away. The follow-up to 2013’s The Silver Gymnasium, Away marks a transition for Will Sheff, with more backing band lineup shifts and personal loss. “I didn’t plan to make it and initially wasn’t sure if it was going to be an Okkervil River album… Source: RollingStone Link: Okkervil […]
Willow Smith has uploaded a new song to her SoundCloud page with an unlikely producer: Michael Cera. Smith released her debut album, Ardipithecus, last year. “Twentyfortyeight 2.0” contains a simple, almost lullaby-like beat. Smith sing-talks stream-of-consciousness lyrics above harmonies of hums. “That isn’t genuine,” she says calmly during the song’s last… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nicola Luisotti says he will end his term as music director of the San Francisco Opera when his contract expires at the end of the 2017-18 season. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Luisotti to step down as SF Opera music director in 2018
In a tweet on Tuesday, Rage Against the Machine directed fans to the website ProphetsOfRage.com that has a countdown clock set for May 31st. Fans connected the cryptic website to a series of posters cropping up around Los Angeles that read: “Clear the way for the Prophets of Rage. The Party’s Over. Summer 2016.” Among the curious fans are Nikki Sixx and… Source: RollingStone Link: Prophets […]
Kanye West called The Life of Pablo a gospel album. But the new mixtape-LP from fellow Chicagoan Chance the Rapper (who had a major appearance on TLOP’s “Ultralight Beam”) truly lives up to that promise. Coloring Book is the richest hip hop album of 2016 so far. Gospel choirs are… Source: RollingStone Link: Coloring Book