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 »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 …
Read More »Flashback: Fans Surprise One Direction During 2014 Milan Show
This week marks one of the most monumental anniversaries in boy band history. Ten years ago on July 23rd, One Direction was formed on ‘The X Factor’ and fangirls around the world haven’t been the same since. Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, and Liam Payne entered the …
Read More »Luke Combs Plays 'Lovin' On You' in an Empty Roller Rink on 'Fallon'
Luke Combs appeared onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Thursday night to perform a somewhat stripped-down version of “Lovin’ On You,” the country superstar’s fourth, and latest, single from his platinum-selling second album What You See Is What You Get. Filmed outside Nashville at the Brentwood Skate Center, Combs and …
Read More »One Direction Announce 10th Anniversary Plans: New Site, Archives and Rarities
One Direction plan on celebrating their 10th anniversary on July 23rd with a trove of new content for their passionate fans. The date marks when Simon Cowell put the five teens in a group together on The X-Factor after they all auditioned as solo artists. For their anniversary, a brand-new, …
Read More »Trigger Hippy's Amber Woodhouse Is Tired of Being Your Token Black Friend
Amber Woodhouse is exhausted. The Nashville-based singer and musician, who joined Steve Gorman’s roots-rock band Trigger Hippy last year, is tired of being your token black friend. Woodhouse plainly says as much in a first-person poem that the Minneapolis native wrote after the death of George Floyd at the hands …
Read More »Bon Jovi Reflects on George Floyd, Protests on New Song 'American Reckoning'
Bon Jovi reflects on the death of George Floyd, the protests that followed and this moment in U.S. history on the band’s new song “American Reckoning.” “I was moved to write ‘American Reckoning’ as a witness to history,” Jon Bon Jovi said in a statement. “I believe the greatest gift …
Read More »Billy Pilgrim Reunite to Release Lost Album 'In the Time Machine'
At this unsettling period in our history, when many of us wish we could time travel to a simpler past, old friends and collaborators Kristian Bush and Andrew Hyra reconvene to do just that with their music. As folk-rock duo Billy Pilgrim, Bush and Hyra are set to release the …
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