Two weeks after Omar Apollo dropped his new single “Stayback,” the rising Indiana singer has recruited Bootsy Collins for the track’s remix. The legendary bassist adds his trademark P-Funk grooves and distinct vocals to the already-funky track that tapped into the sound of early Prince and the Parliament-Funkadelic; Collins had …
Read More »Music at Home: Staycation Vibes
Rumor has it none of us are going anywhere for a while. So whether you’re watching YouTube videos of the ocean, floating on a pool of existential dread, or increasingly reminding your quarantine family that it’s five o’clock somewhere, let these songs soundtrack the delusion that you’re on vacation anywhere …
Read More »Blackpink Celebrate Four-Year Anniversary by Announcing Selena Gomez Collaboration
Blackpink is celebrating the fourth anniversary of their debut with a big announcement. After weeks of teasing a “surprise feature,” the four-piece girl group confirmed that Selena Gomez will appear on their upcoming single, the follow-up to their record-breaking comeback track, “How You Like That.” The as-yet-untitled new song is …
Read More »Hayley Williams Covers Radiohead's 'Fake Plastic Trees'
Hayley Williams released an acoustic cover of Radiohead’s “Fake Plastic Trees” on Instagram Monday as part of her “self-serenade” series of covers. (Past renditions have included Phoebe Bridgers’ “Smoke Signals” and Björk’s “Unison.”) In the caption for the cover, recorded as an iPhone voice memo, Williams explained that it would …
Read More »Dua Lipa Enlists Madonna, Missy Elliott, Gwen Stefani for 'Club Future Nostalgia' Remix LP
Dua Lipa has announced a new Club Future Nostalgia the Remix album, which will comprise remixes of songs from her sophomore album, Future Nostalgia. The set, which she worked on with the Blessed Madonna (formerly known as the Black Madonna), drops on August 21st. The singer shared the news on …
Read More »Code Orange Pay Homage to Nineties MTV With Cover of Alice in Chains' 'Down in a Hole'
Code Orange channeled the Nineties in multiple ways during their livestream show, Under the Skin, which aired Thursday, July 30th and drew inspiration from classic MTV Unplugged performances. Notably, it featured a cover of Alice In Chains’ “Down in a Hole.” The performance took place at the Theatre Factory in …
Read More »Arlo Guthrie Unveils Pandemic-Inspired Stephen Foster Cover 'Hard Times Come Again No More'
About a month into the coronavirus shutdown, Arlo Guthrie woke with a 166-year-old song on his mind. “I woke up and told my girlfriend, ‘You know, there’s a song I’ve been meaning to do,’” he recalls. “She had never heard of the song and didn’t know what I was talking …
Read More »Marilyn Manson Announces New Album 'We Are Chaos,' Drops Title Track
Marilyn Manson has announced his 11th studio album,We Are Chaos, out September 11th via Loma Vista Recordings. The 10-track LP was produced by Manson and Grammy Award winner Shooter Jennings (Brandi Carlile, Tanya Tucker) and one of Manson’s self-portraits is featured on its cover. To accompany the sinister-sounding album, Manson …
Read More »Flashback: Fleetwood Mac Play a Scorching 'Oh Well' in 1977
Fleetwood Mac had been around for 10 years when they hit the road in 1977, but you’d never know that by looking at the set list from their December 5th stop that year at Tokyo’s Budokan. That show featured nine songs from 1977’s Rumours and eight from their 1975 self-titled …
Read More »Hear Jefferson Starship's New Song 'It's About Time,' Co-Written by Grace Slick
Jefferson Starship have shared “It’s About Time,” a new single co-written by Grace Slick. The track appears on their upcoming EP Mother of the Sun, out August 21st. “Old white men have had their turn,” lead singer Cathy Richardson declares in the video over blaring guitars. “Thousands of years, what …
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