The National‘s Bryce and Aaron Dessner and Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon have launched an online music platform dubbed People. The service provides artists “an independent and nurturing space in which to make work (generally around music) that is collaborative, spontaneous and expressive in nature,” People states. People, which launched Wednesday, …
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Beck reimagined U2‘s stark ballad “Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way” as a synth-laced arena-rocker in a new remix of the Songs of Experiencesingle. The songwriter revamped the track into a maximalist sing-along, speeding up the tempo to a danceable BPM and layering in shimmering keyboards and percussion. …
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Kesha‘s musicon new albumRainbowcelebrates dreamers of all kinds, but her new video for “Hymn” goes out to a one particularly besieged subset – DACA recipients. Kesha announced the video on Facebook where she also detailed her new partnership with United We Dream, an organization designed to aid those who were …
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Sean Lennon’s Chimera label is unearthing lost music from Beanpole, a demented recording project featuring performances from Primus members Les Claypool and Larry LaLonde, and Derek Greenberg and Adam Gates of Geffen-signed alt-pop group Spent Poets. All My Kin, featuring recordings from between 1984 through the late Nineties, is due …
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Chvrches performed their cathartic single “Miracle” on Thursday’s Tonight Show. The synth-pop trio nailed the song’s dynamic shifts. Multi-instrumentalists Iain Cook and Martin Doherty flanked the stage on synths, with the former switching to a booming bass guitar on the choruses. “Miracle” appears on the Glasgow-based trio’s newly issued third …
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Phantogram released a poignant new single, “Someday,” as part of a mental health initiative. All proceeds from sales and streams of the track – and its B-side, an atmospheric cover of Sparklehorse ballad “Saturday” – will benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. “Someday I’ll find you; I’ll meet you, …
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Tupac Shakur once brought a bagful of weed to Snoop Dogg backstage at Saturday Night Live. Snoop Dogg spoke about the meet-up – which also included Madonna, who dated Shakur during the Nineties – for the first time during an interview with Howard Stern on Tuesday. Snoop Dogg appeared as …
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“Is there room in the game for a lame who rhymes? Who wears short shorts and makes jokes sometimes?” These sorts of questions consumed Camp, the official debut album from Donald Glover‘s Childish Gambino project, when it came out in 2011. The record was intensely anxious and frequently biting, emphasizing …
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Ray Davies has announced his new album Our Country: Americana Act II, the follow-up to the Kinks frontman’s 2017 LP Americana. “Our Country follows my journey across America; through endless tours not just to reclaim the Kinks’ career, but to rediscover the country that offered me my earliest inspirations,” Davies …
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Janet Jackson announced a new round of U.S. tour dates. The latest leg of the R&B star’s State of the World Tour kicks off July 11th in Austin, Texas and wraps August 7th in Tampa, Florida. General public tickets go on sale starting Friday, April 27th via Live Nation. Citi …
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