“If you want to get known as a singer,” Sammy Davis Jr. once said, “you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That’s publicity, man.” Pop culture’s hunger for the publicity stunt hasn’t changed much since Davis’s day. Case in point: the… Source: RollingStone Link: 10 Music […]
The Flaming Lips will visit the Marvel universe in the August issue of X-Men ’92, a retro comic set in the Nineties continuity. “Being in an X-Men comic where they (the X-Men themselves) actually run security at one of our shows … I should have written a song about that,” singer Wayne… Source: RollingStone Link: The Flaming […]
A$AP Mob released a psychedelic video for single “Yamborghini High” featuring Juicy J. The Harlem hip-hop collective will be releasing an album later this year. In the clip, A$AP Rocky and other members of the Mob traverse a variety of colorful scenes. From a pink and purple forest to the front of a… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Billboard has announced that Madonna will perform a tribute to Prince at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Madonna will perform a Prince tribute at the Billboard Music Awards
A year after “Tomatogate,” a handful of new female artists are making inroads at country radio. But Martina McBride says it would be wrong to think that the genre’s gender inequality issue has been resolved. “I feel like it’s difficult still,” she laments of female artists keeping up with the guys… Source: RollingStone Link: Martina […]
When the TV movie Coat of Many Colors aired on NBC in December 2015, over 12 million viewers tuned in to NBC to watch the story based on Dolly Parton’s childhood — the most for a film on the big four networks in four years. In 2016, the network will attempt… Source: RollingStone Link: Dolly Parton […]
Eight years ago, Andy Black was living in a car. Having just left his hometown of Cincinnati, the young punk was broke in Hollywood, subsisting on visions of what would become his wildly successful glam-metal outfit, Black Veil Brides. “I was barely 18,” says Black, neé Biersack. “I figured I… Source: RollingStone Link: Andy Black, […]
Justin Timberlake and his Trolls co-star Anna Kendrick performed a tender, acoustic cover of Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colors” at a footage screening of the DreamWorks Animation film before the Cannes Film Festival. Trolls will hit theatres this November, while the soundtrack will come out on September 23rd. Timberlake, who is both the… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]
Brad Paisley kicks off his Life Amplified World Tour next week, taking Tyler Farr and Maddie & Tae along for the ride. The treks kicks off May 19th in Sacramento, California, hitting 35 cities in the U.S. and Canada before wrapping (at least the first leg) October 1st at Las… Source: RollingStone Link: Brad Paisley […]
Drake’s “One Dance” hit Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 this week, and it’s being hailed as his first chart-topper as a lead artist. He’s been in the top spot before, but only as support for Rihanna on “Whats My Name” in 2010 and on “Work” earlier this year. It’s… Source: RollingStone Link: Drake Is […]