A rock music festival in Germany was halted for five hours on Saturday with organizers urging more than 90,000 fans to seek shelter in cars and tents as another thunderstorm approached hours after lightning strikes injured 71 people. Festival organizers told a news conference that performances would resume after the storm blew over, and said […]
The Strokes headlined the Friday night festivities at this year’s Governors Ball in New York, and in addition to a career-spanning set that featured tracks off their new Future Present Past EP, the band also performed their cover of the Clash’s “Clampdown” for the first time in 12 years. “Here’s a Clash… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
The funky delivery, the boasts, the comical trash talk, the endless quotables: As a rhyming trickster in the early Sixties, the greatest boxer who ever lived was also a cornerstone in the early development of hip-hop music. “Without Muhammad Ali, there would be no ‘Mama Said Knock You Out, and… Source: RollingStone Link: Muhammad Ali: […]
As the lights dimmed on the expansive open-air pitch of the Forum in Barcelona’s San Adrián de Besós district, the cool Spanish night grew pregnant with expectation. But there were no chants of “Radiohead” erupting from the crowd. There were no odd yelps or screams or spontaneous hollers. Instead there… Source: RollingStone Link: Radiohead Deliver […]
The Beatles had only been in America for 11 days when they found themselves herded into Miami Beach’s 5th Street Gym for a photo op with a 22-year-old boxer named Cassius Clay. It was February 18th, 1964, and the band was in town to film their second appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Clay… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: The […]
Future has been a restless, verse-dropping machine over the first half of 2016, but the rapper has finally found time to revisit his January mixtape Purple Reign with the new video for “Wicked.” The clip debuted Friday night on Apple Music. Directed by Grant Singer, the video for the Metro Boomin and Southside-produced track is… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
The Claypool Lennon Delirium celebrated the release of their new LP Monolith of Phobos Friday by premiering the bizarre video for “Bubbles Burst,” the Sean Lennon-penned track about his experience hanging out with Michael Jackson and his pet chimpanzee Bubbles in the Eighties. The surreal video, directed by Les Claypool, features The Mighty… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]
Whitney Houston’s estate will auction off personal items belonging to the singer and actress, including her 1986 Emmy for her performance at the 28th Annual Grammy Awards, which is estimated to sell for $10,000, Reuters reports. Heritage Auctions, the Beverly Hills, California-based auction house, said that more than 100 pieces of… Source: RollingStone Link: Whitney […]
Although other notable musicians have canceled their North Carolina gigs to protest the controversial “bathroom bill,” Cyndi Lauper will perform in Raleigh, North Carolina on Saturday. She’s already said she plans to donate the funds to the LGBT-rights group Equality North Carolina, but in advance of the concert, Lauper and Harvey Fierstein, who… Source: RollingStone Link: Cyndi Lauper, […]
Unlocking the Truth, a metal band composed of three African-American seventh graders, is the subject of the acclaimed documentary Breaking a Monster. The music doc follows the unlikely trio – Alec Atkins, Malcolm Brickhouse and Jarad Dawkins – that scored a $1.8 million record deal with Sony Music Entertainment. Breaking a Monster was… Source: RollingStone Link: Metal […]