Andre 3000 marked Mother’s Day by releasing a pair of new songs, “Me&My (To Bury Your Parents)” and “Look Ma No Hands.” The tracks, which the Outkast rapper posted on his just-created Soundcloud account, are Andre 3000‘s first original songs as a solo artist outside of the Atlanta rap duo. …
Read More »See Jason Isbell Talk 'Good and Bad Music,' Corporate 'Crap' on 'Off Camera'
Bad music is more than just a matter of taste for Jason Isbell. It’s a means to, or more precisely a hindrance to, understanding other peoples’ experiences of the world. So the Grammy winner says in his new conversation with Sam Jones in the latest episode of the online Off …
Read More »FKA Twigs Reveals 'Excruciating' Battle With Tumors
FKA Twigs revealed Monday that she has spent the past five months recovering following a battle with tumors. In December, the singer underwent laparoscopic surgery to remove six fibroid tumors from her uterus. “The tumors were pretty huge, the size of 2 cooking apples, 3 kiwis and a couple of …
Read More »Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean, FGL Lead CMT Music Awards Nominations
Carrie Underwood, Florida Georgia Line and Jason Aldean lead all nominees with four each at the 2018 CMT Music Awards. The nominations for the annual show honoring outstanding achievement in country music videos were announced Tuesday morning. Little Big Town have been tapped to host the awards, set for Wednesday, …
Read More »Watch Meek Mill Talk Hiding Opioid Addiction, 'Life-Changing' Rehab
Meek Mill spoke candidly about his battle with an opioid addiction while he was on probation during a press conference he held in Philadelphia. The rapper was released on bail from prison in April. “I think [there] should be a line drawn where you have a drug problem [and] where …
Read More »How American R&B Songwriters Found a New Home in K-Pop
Claude Kelly, who has helped craft Grammy-nominated singles for Bruno Mars, Tamia and Ledisi, earned his first publishing deal as a songwriter in 2007. Around the same time, he started to notice dispiriting new constraints in R&B writing sessions. The genre was paring down rapidly to keep pace with hip-hop, …
Read More »Watch Brent Cobb's Tale of Road Fatigue in 'Come Home Soon' Video
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Brent Cobb has released a new song from his upcoming third studio album Providence Canyon, issuing “Come Home Soon” on Thursday. Featuring Cobb’s south Georgia drawl over a loping, Southern rock beat and expressive slide guitar, “Come Home Soon” is a breezy but bittersweet meditation on the side …
Read More »Mike Shinoda Gets Brutally Honest on New Song 'About You'
Linkin Park‘s Mike Shinoda unveiled a stomping new solo song, “About You,” featuring Blackbear. The track will appear on Shinoda’s debut solo album, Post Traumatic, out June 15th. “About You” opens with Shinoda spitting brutally honest bars – “I buckled up told myself to suck it up/ I was scared …
Read More »Dave Matthews Band Prep First LP in Six Years, 'Come Tomorrow'
Dave Matthews Band will release their ninth studio album, Come Tomorrow, on June 8th via RCA Records. The group has yet to detail a tracklist for the LP, which follows their chart-topping 2012 set, Away From the World. The genre-bending jam crew recorded Come Tomorrow between tours at studios in …
Read More »My Bloody Valentine Plot First U.S. Tour in Five Years
My Bloody Valentine will stage their first U.S. shows in five years with a seven-date summer run. The trek, their first run of American gigs since their tour promoting 2013’s m b v, kicks off July 17th in Seattle and concludes August 1st in New York City. Tickets go on …
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