Troye Sivan, Charli XCX and Pussy Riot were among the artists taking the stage in Los Angeles on Thursday night at the first-ever Go West Fest, which coincided with the first weekend of Pride Month and served as an unofficial kick off to L.A. Pride. The Live Nation-produced event — …
Read More »Lauv's New Single 'Sad Forever' Benefits Mental Health Organizations
Lauv unveiled a video for his new single “Sad Forever,” which will appear on his forthcomingHow I’m Feeling LP. In the clip, he discusses how he sought help for his depression and said that he wanted to “help others take their first step to get help, too.” Proceeds from the …
Read More »'Rocketman': Fact-Checking the Elton John Biopic
The new Elton John movie Rocketman never pretends to be a traditional biopic. It’s a fantasy musical told from the perspective of a burned-out, drug-addled Elton reflecting on his wild life from a rehab facility in the early 1990s. Characters frequently burst into elaborately choreographed song and dance routines, songs …
Read More »Stella Donnelly Evades Death in New Video – Aptly Titled – 'Die'
Stella Donnelly has released a new video for “Die,” a track off her debut LP Beware of the Dogs. Directed by Los Angeles sister-duo Giraffe Studios, the video features Donnelly in a lavender satin dress with a dagger in her chest. Throughout several scenes, she tries to prevent death—driving a …
Read More »Tool Set Summer Release Date for New Album
Tool will release their long-awaited new album, August 30th, per a video posted on the band’s Twitter. According to Blabbermouth, the clip appeared on social media not long after the band flashed “August 30th” on the big screen at their show in Birmingham, Alabama Tuesday night. Frontman Maynard James Keenan …
Read More »Don McLean Loses Lifetime Achievement Award Over Domestic Violence Guilty Plea
Don McLean will no longer receive a lifetime achievement award from a UCLA student group after it learned that the singer-songwriter had pleaded guilty to domestic violence charges in 2016, the Portland Press Herald reports. Last Friday, the Student Alumni Association of UCLA announced they were presenting McLean with the …
Read More »Watch Moby Detail Allegedly Rubbing His Penis on Donald Trump
Moby claims that he once rubbed his penis on Donald Trump at a party before he became president, and in an appearance on Real Time With Bill Maher Friday, the Play artist spoke about the alleged incident, which he revealed in his new memoir Then It Fell Apart. “There was …
Read More »Hear Violent Femmes' New Song With Television's Tom Verlaine, 'Hotel Last Resort'
Violent Femmes recruited iconic Television guitarist Tom Verlaine for their surreal new song “Hotel Last Resort.” The five-minute track appears on the folk-punk band’s 10th LP of the same name, out July 26th via PIAS. Throughout the winding cut, guitarist Gordon Gano unfurls a series of intriguing lyrical vignettes (“I …
Read More »Tom DeLonge Revives Angels and Airwaves With New Song 'Rebel Girl'
Tom DeLonge’s Angels and Airwaves unveiled their first new song in three years, “Rebel Girl,” while they also announced a fall tour that will mark their first trek since 2012. “Rebel Girl” is a pulsing love song that finds DeLonge bellowing over a melange of synth sounds, “Do you want …
Read More »Listen to Two New Thom Yorke Songs
BBC Radio 3’s “Unclassified” offered the radio premiere of two new Thom Yorke songs, “Don’t Fear the Light” and “Gawpers,” which the singer recently played live in Paris. “Don’t Fear the Light” is a classical piece, arranged to be played by two pianos, electronics and modular synthesizer. The musician tapped …
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