Crowded House have announced their first new studio album in more than a decade, Dreamers Are Waiting. The follow-up to 2010’s Intriguer, the LP will be released on June 4th via BMG and is available to pre-order here. The band also dropped a new video for the LP single “To …

Vitamin String Quartet have released a virtual performance of Radiohead‘s “Motion Picture Soundtrack.” In a video shot in isolation, the Los Angeles project performs the Kid A track in several rooms, with Tom Lea on viola, Amanda Lo and Earl Maneein on violin, and Derek Stein on cello. “Motion Picture …

Megan Thee Stallion has released the new song “Southside Forever Freestyle” along with an accompanying video. “Happy birthday to me #MeganMonday,” the rapper, who is celebrating turning 26 today, captioned an Instagram post sharing the clip In the Mike Ho-directed visual, Megan Thee Stallion pays homage to her hometown of …

Phife Dawg teams with Busta Rhymes and Redman for his posthumous single “Nutshell Part 2,” a remix of a track that was released one month after the A Tribe Called Quest rapper’s March 2016 death. Boasting the same J Dilla beat as the original “Nutshell,” the late Phife Dawg took …

First, history: In December 1968, almost exactly a year before the murder of Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton by the FBI, Paramount Pictures released what remains one of the most curious artifacts in the history of Hollywood — hardly a hotbed for radical views of black politics. It is a …

Chris Stapleton performed the country waltz “When I’m With You” on Wednesday night’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The song, a solo composition by Stapleton, appears on the singer’s latest album, Starting Over. Joined by his wife and singing partner Morgane in a darkened rehearsal space, Stapleton …

Rebecca Black celebrated the 10th anniversary of her surprise viral hit “Friday” with a bonkers new remix featuring Big Freedia, 3OH!3, and Dorian Electra, produced by 100 Gecs‘ Dylan Brady (listen to it here). The new remix is about as different from Black’s 2011 original as you can get, with …

Jodie Foster has been acting most of her life, beginning with a sunscreen commercial when she was three years old. In the latest installment ofRolling Stone‘s The First Time, Foster talked through some of her earliest acting experiences, like meeting herTaxi Driver co-star Robert De Niro. “He picked me up …

Two years after supergroup quartet Our Native Daughters released their stunning debut album, Songs of Our Native Daughters, the collective of Rhiannon Giddens, Allison Russell, Amythyst Kiah, and Leyla McCalla are releasing a documentary that chronicles the band’s story. Reclaiming History: Our Native Daughters,a 47-minute film detailing the group’s first …

Brent Faiyaz’s “Gravity” feels like an outer-space experience the moment you press play. While the groovy guitar compliments the mesmerizing bass line, the changing pitch of Faiyaz’ voice sounds as if Martians have just stepped in the booth to provide ad-libs. With the addition of Tyler the Creator’s guest verse, …