When David Bowie was promoting Let's Dance, he considered writing its follow-up as a "protest" record. Instead, he rushed out Tonight, a pop-oriented album heavy on big Eighties production but light on Bowie originals. Unable to write on tour, he added reggae rhythms to some of his favorite IggyThis article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Inside […]
Atlanta rapper Carlos "Shawty Lo" Walker, a member of the rap group D4L whose "Laffy Taffy" topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 2005, died early Wednesday morning in a car crash in Fulton County, Georgia. He was 40.Shawty Lo's manager Johnnie Cabbell used the rapper's Twitter to confirm that the rapper died in the single-car […]
Leonard Cohen celebrated his 82nd birthday Wednesday with the announcement that his upcoming LP, You Want It Darker, will arrive on October 21st. The veteran musician released the mesmerizing title track, which, according to a press release, "delves into an unflinching exploration of the religiousThis article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Hear Leonard Cohen’s Mesmerizing New Song […]
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The host of Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show’ will head back home to Johannesburg for the annual celebration of African music. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Trevor Noah to Host MTV Africa Music Awards
The film will be shot on 65mm large format, with production beginning in February. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Rooney Mara to Topline Pop-Star Drama 'Vox Lux' With Original Music From Sia
The film will be shot on 65mm large format, with production beginning in February. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Rooney Mara to Topline Pop-Star Drama 'Vox Dux' With Original Music From Sia
Lady Gaga throws a frenetic desert rager in the euphoric new video for her single, "Perfect Illusion."The Andrea Gelardin and Ruth Hogben-directed clip finds Gaga tearing across the vast landscape in a Jeep to perform for a throng of revelers. As the sun sets, the party grows wilder, with GagaThis article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch […]
New Orleans rapper Big Freedia will hit the road this fall in anticipation of her new album, Pressing Onward, set to arrive next year, Pitchfork reports.The reigning bounce queen will kick off the trek October 12th at the Saturn in Birmingham, Alabama and wrap October 23rdThis article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Big Freedia Plots Fall […]
Eddie Vedder, Jackson Browne and Rosanne Cash will headline the Beacon Theater September 25th to cap off the Concert Across America to End GunThis article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Nationwide Anti-Gun Violence Concert Series Expands Source: RollingStone Link: Nationwide Anti-Gun Violence Concert Series Expands