Five years after the death of A Tribe Called Quest’s Phife Dawg, the rapper’s second solo album is set to be posthumously released later this year. Titled Forever, the album will be preceded Friday by first single “Nutshell Part 2” featuring Busta Rhymes and Redman, a continuation of sorts of …
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In the early 2000s, Will Oldham and guitarist Matt Sweeney decided to try a collaborative experiment inspired by the working relationship of Jerry Garcia and lyricist Robert Hunter. Oldham — who went by Bonnie “Prince” Billy at the time — would write lyrics from his home in Louisville, Kentucky, and …
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After Sunday night’s Super Bowl, Verizon hosted a special livestream show in support of America’s small businesses affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Hosted by Alicia Keys and produced by Jay-Z’s Roc Nation, with Tiffany Haddish as presenter, the Big Concert for Small Business kicked off with a set by Miley …
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Machine Gun Kelly is prepping a new graphic novel based on his 2019 album, Hotel Diablo, which will be released in July via Z2 Comics. Machine Gun Kelly co-wrote the comic with Eliot Rahal and Ryan Cady, while Martin Morazzo, Amilcar Pinna, Victor Ibañez, and Nelson Blake II handled the …
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London-based singer-songwriter Nilüfer Yanya, a Rolling Stone Artist You Need to Know, made her Tonight Show debut Tuesday with a performance of “Crash,” from Yanya’s recent EP Feeling Lucky? For the virtual performance — styled and shot like it was filmed at the turn of the Nineties — Yanya and …
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Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson takes full advantage of deep fake technology to repeatedly transform himself in the new video for his song, “Self.” The video was directed by Wilson’s longtime visual collaborator, Miles Skarin, and it opens with the musician facing the camera as he sings along with the propulsive …
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Julia Stone has released a new song and video, “We All Have,” from her upcoming albumSixty Summers. The track features the voice of Matt Berninger from the National. “This song is about how everything transforms and moves; even though you feel so shitty at one point, it might shift into …
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Juliana Hatfield has revealed her 19th studio album, Blood, out May 14th via American Laundromat Records. The singer-songwriter dropped the single “Mouthful of Blood” to accompany the announcement. “If I say what I want to say/It might get me killed,” she sings over a churning guitar riff. “I always love …
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Penske Media Corporation (PMC) announced a new partnership with YT Media, one of China’s leading media and art companies, launching the Chinese Edition of Rolling Stone on Tuesday. Under a multiyear license,Rolling StoneChinawillfeature original and syndicated content tailored to a booming consumer market and providing a new lifestyle brand to …
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English singer-songwriter Passenger has shared a new mix of his track, “Sword From the Stone,” co-produced by Ed Sheeran. Sheeran and Joe Rubel helmed the so-called “Gingerbread Mix,” in which they transform the airy original with some extra punch in the piano, shuffle in the drums and other atmospheric touches …
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