Billie Eilish returned with her new single “My Future” on Thursday — which is also her brother/collaborator Finneas‘ 23rd birthday. The song follows “No Time to Die,” the title track for a not-yet-unreleased James Bond film. Its corresponding animated video was created by Australian artist Andrew Onorato. “My Future,” which …
Read More »Jaden Smith Pines for a World Without Quarantine in 'Cabin Fever' Video
Jaden Smith brings a psychedelic look to quarantine in his video for “Cabin Fever,” the COVID-themed love song he released earlier this month. The visual — self-directed by Smith under the pseudonym Wavy Baby — shows him trying to ask a girl out by holding up signs outside her bedroom …
Read More »'In My Skin': Living a Lie When the Truth Is Too Ugly
Bethan Gwyndaf isn’t the most popular girl in her high school. She’s not the most athletic, nor the most glamorous. And though she seems quite clever, she’s not making much of an academic impact, either. But there is one thing Bethan is better at than anyone else, even if none …
Read More »Korn Tap Yelawolf for Ripping Rendition of Charlie Daniels' 'Devil Went Down to Georgia'
Korn have shared a hard-rock cover of Charlie Daniels’ signature song, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” featuring Alabama rapper Yelawolf. The track finds Korn recreating the song’s furious fiddle duel with a blaze of guitars, which adds the particularly ominous pall of heavy metal to Daniels’ classic tale. But …
Read More »Not Just Cats, Weed, and California: Best Coast Talk 'Crazy for You' at 10
Best Coast acknowledge that they became popular almost by accident. “We really had no aspirations at all,” multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno tells Rolling Stone. “We’ve always said: ‘A band could not have tried less to actively become a successful band than us.’” The world into which the duo dropped its debut …
Read More »Mickey Guyton Pleads for Healing in New Song 'Heaven Down Here'
Mickey Guyton sends out a prayer for healing to a troubled world in “Heaven Down Here,” her third new song to come out in 2020. “Heaven Down Here” follows closely on the heels of Guyton’s current single, “Black Like Me.” Phrased like a conversation with a higher power, “Heaven Down …
Read More »Ricky Reed Enlists Jim James, Duendita for Wistful 'Us (How Sweet It Was)'
The producer Ricky Reed is joined by My Morning Jacket’s Jim James and the rising singer Duendita on the regretful ballad “Us (How Sweet It Was).” While the plaintive keyboard and yearning lines from James — “If I had only known how long I wouldn’t see you” — reach back …
Read More »Burger Boogaloo Fest Severs Ties With Burger Records Amid Sexual-Misconduct Allegations
Burger Boogaloo, the independently produced festival organized by Oakland’s Total Trash Productions, is severing ties with longtime partner Burger Records. In a statement posted on the festival’s website, Total Trash Productions cited recent sexual-misconduct allegations against Burger Records’ artists and employees. “In light of the recent allegations against Burger Records …
Read More »The Chicks Joke They'd 'Make Out' With George Bush Compared With Trump
The Chicks appeared (virtually) on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen this week to promote their new album, Gaslighter, and as expected with the Bravo show, the interview questions — and answers — got a little saucy. Referencing their past controversy over criticizing George W. Bush, Cohen asked how …
Read More »Robbie Shakespeare: My 10 Favorite Bassists
Robbie Shakespeare — reggae artist extraordinaire, prolific bassist, and in-demand producer alongside his longtime collaborator Sly Dunbar — admits he was “humbled” upon learning he made Rolling Stone’s recent list of the 50 Greatest Bassists of All Time. “Number 17, that’s good,” Shakespeare says of his ranking, “compared to all …
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