Mac DeMarco will release a new album this year, as well as hitting the road for shows across North America thisspring, summer and fall. The laid-back Canadian strummer’s first LP since 2017’s This Old Dog will also be the first release on the imprint he founded last year, the aptly …
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The Killers contrast a mythic American dream with a darker, more depressing vision of U.S. life in their scathing new song “Land of the Free.” Frontman Brandon Flowers criticizes President Trump’s proposed border wall, institutional racism and the country’s failure to introduce substantial gun control reform. The singer uses “the …
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Former Game of Throne‘s star Ian Beattie just can’t win in Beirut‘s humorous new video for “Landslide.” The song will appear on Zach Condon and his group’s forthcoming fifth studio album, Gallipoli. In the Eoin Glaister-directed clip, which was shot in Kazakhstan, Beattie’s character embodies the song’s resilient outlook, which …
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A mother attempts to reunite with her estranged daughter, a member of R. Kelly‘s alleged sex cult, in this clip from tonight’s two-part finale of the Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly. During the episode, Michelle Kramer recounts how her daughter Dominique Gardner, then working as a dental assistant in Chicago, …
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John Legend, who appears in Lifetime’s Surviving R. Kelly docuseries, blasted R. Kelly during his interview in the final episode, which airs on Saturday. “R. Kelly has brought so much pain to so many people,” the musician said. “#TimesUp for R. Kelly.” Legend is the only major artist to appear …
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Slayer will return to North America for another leg of their ongoing Final Tour this spring. The band will spend March in Asia and most of the summer in Europe; it plans to announce more tour dates in the future.Lamb of God, Amon Amarth and Cannibal Corpse will support the …
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Kendrick Lamar, Drake and Brandi Carlile lead the nominations for the 2019 Grammy Awards. The winners will be revealed when CBS broadcasts the Recording Academy’s annual ceremony live from Los Angeles on February 10th. In total, rap dominated the nominations, launching five of the top six most-nominated artists. Lamar leads …
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Men at Work are getting back to work. Group leader Colin Hay has decided to resurrect the Australian band – best known for their early Eighties hits “Down Under” and “Who Can It Be Now?” – for their first tour since disbanding in 2002. The tour kicks off in Manchester, …
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Emo rap has become untethered. It’s a catch-all and increasingly meaningless term (especially considering its infinitely worse alternate title, “bop-punk”). It’s currently used to describe any rap that’s partially melodic and generally heartbroken, which has led to artists like Drake and Kid Cudi getting lumped into the same category as …
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Mötley Crüe’s seemingly unfilmable group autobiography, The Dirt, will finally come out as a biopic via Netflix next spring. Frontman Vince Neil shared the news with an effusively excited, exclamation-point–studded tweet: “Wow!!! Just left Netflix offices. Just saw The Dirt movie!! Fuckin’ awesome!! Can’t wait for everyone to see it! …
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