Country star Morgan Wallen returned to Number One on the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart after briefly ceding the top spot to Taylor Swift. Wallen picked up 118.4 million song streams for the week of February 19th through February 25th, which was actually about 2 million more than he got …
Read More »
The Recording Academy announced the full list of nominees for the 63rd annual Grammy Awards on Tuesday, November 24th, and as always the Best New Artist category boasts a compelling mix of budding stars, critical favorites, and a couple of sleeper hits. The biggest name on this year’s list is …
Read More »
Vandoliers have earned a reputation for cathartic, shout-along songs that can all but exorcise demons. The Texas band decimated a crowd with sneering jams like “Sixteen Years” and “Troublemaker” during a humid parking-lot party at SXSW 2019 — back in those heady days when we could gather without fear of …
Read More »
Less than a year after Paul Weller released On Sunset, the former Jam frontman is returning with Fat Pop (Volume 1), his 16th solo album. With his tour dates in support of his 2020 album postponed, Weller used the Covid-19 quarantine as a catalyst to excavate song ideas stored on …
Read More »
Taylor Swift returned to the top of the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart following the release of her new version of “Love Story.” The musician wracked up 127.2 million song streams for the week of February 12th through the 18th, with “Love Story (Taylor’s Version)” debuting at Number Four on …
Read More »
Jaden Smith swims and lazes on the beach in the new video for “Photograph.” Shot in New Providence, Bahamas, and directed by Smith himself, the video features scenes of Smith staring at the pink sunset, closing his eyes on a float, swimming through the current, and lying facedown in the …
Read More »
Evanescence staged a virtual performance of their song “Wasted on You,” off the band’s upcoming album The Bitter Truth, on Friday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. With the five members play together separately from various locations — including what appears to be singer Amy Lee’s doll-filled living room — the band blistered …
Read More »
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is now investigating abuse allegations brought against Marilyn Manson, born Brian Warner. The department confirmed to ABC News that the Special Victims Bureau is looking into incidents that occurred between 2009 and 2011 when Warner resided in West Hollywood. A representative for Warner did …
Read More »
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 …
Read More »
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 …
Read More »