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Jon Pardi's 'California Sunrise' Tops Country Chart

Jon Pardi has his first Number One. The country crooner’s new album, California Sunrise tops Billboard’s Country Albums chart this week with almost 30,000 in sales. Though it has touches of rock & roll influences, the LP largely reflects Pardi’s affinity for the Merle Haggards and Buck Owens of years past… Source: RollingStone Link: Jon […]

Suge Knight Sues Chris Brown Over Nightclub Shooting

Marion “Suge” Knight has filed a lawsuit against Chris Brown and the owners of West Hollywood nightclub 1 Oak, where Knight was shot seven times at an August 2014 pre-VMA party hosted at the venue by the singer. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, accuses Brown and club owners… Source: RollingStone Link: Suge Knight […]

Music Monday (6/27): This Week's New Albums + Videos

Our guide to this week's (and last week's) album releases also features the week's top new music videos from artists like Portishead, Aphex Twin, and ScHoolboy Q, plus brand new streaming music from Bat for Lashes, Thee Oh Sees, Rihanna, Maxwell, Devendra Banhart, and more. Read and Post Comments | Get the full article at […]

Kendra Foster

Foster co-wrote eight of the twelve songs on D’Angelo’s comeback triumph Black Messiah, where her backing vocals melted into his in sinuous harmony. Solo, she draws from the jazzier strains of R&B that nurtured neo-soul heroines Erykah Badu and Jill Scott, though the woozy wending of her melodies also suggests… Source: RollingStone Link: Kendra Foster

On My One

On his third LP (and first minus additional songwriters), 22-year-old U.K. roots revivalist Jake Bugg mixes Americana and British folk as skillfully as ever – whether on the rockabilly- riot “Put Out the Fire” or the acoustic-blues title track, which begins, “I’m just a poor boy/From Nottingham.” He’s less successful… Source: RollingStone Link: On My […]

American Tunes

If New Orleans is the source of America’s greatest musical gumbo, Allen Toussaint was one of our master chefs. Before his death last year, Toussaint had worked with numerous local heroes, including Ernie K-Doe and Dr. John, and added some Crescent City stardust to collaborations with Paul McCartney and The… Source: RollingStone Link: American Tunes

Hear Maxwell's Brassy New Song 'All the Ways Love Can Feel'

“Class is in session tonight.” Neo-soul crooner Maxwell is back. His new track “All the Ways that Love Can Heal,” his upcoming fifth LP, BlackSUMMERS’night is a velvet carpet of come-ons and sighing horns as Maxwell proclaims: “A thousand races into space/ Universal law never makes mistakes.” “All the Ways” is Maxwell’s third… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]

Hear Jamie Lynn Spears' Confident 'Sleepover'

Singer-songwriter Jamie Lynn Spears has released a new song called “Sleepover,” her first since the 2014 EP The Journey. Spears was also the focus of a TLC documentary, When the Lights Go Out, that aired on June 26th. Written by Spears with Liz Rose, Tina Parol and Corey Crowder, “Sleepover” is… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]

Justin Timberlake Apologizes for BET Awards Tweet Controversy

Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar’s show-opening performance and the emotional Prince tributes weren’t the only moments from the BET Awards making headlines Sunday night: Justin Timberlake found in a Twitter dispute.  Timberlake tweeted that he was “#inspired” by Jesse Williams’ humanitarian award acceptance speech. A barrage of Twitter followers, specifically one named Ernest Owens, jumped on… Source: RollingStone Link: Justin […]