Rosalíaclosed out the 45th season of Austin City Limits with a performance of “Malamente,” her platinum hit from 2018’s El Mal Querer. The 16-song set will premiere on PBS on February 8th at 9 p.m. ET and will stream the following day. “All right, Austin,” the Spanish star told the …
Read More »Watch Robbie Robertson's Evocative 'Once Were Brothers' Video
Robbie Robertson’s plaintive “Once Were Brothers,” from his Sinematicalbum, shares its title withOnce Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band, a documentary about Robertson’s life and often wild times with the group that made him famous. The film opens in New York and L.A. on February 21 and nationally on …
Read More »Soundgarden Respond to Lawsuit From Chris Cornell's Widow, Claim Ownership Over Final Recordings
Soundgarden denied withholding royalties from Chris Cornell‘s widow and rebuffed her claim that she is the sole owner of several recordings Cornell worked on before his death in a new court filing. The motion, filed Tuesday and obtained by Rolling Stone, is a response to a lawsuit Vicky Cornell filed …
Read More »Justin Bieber Taps Summer Walker for 'Yummy' Remix
Justin Bieber’s “Yummy” may have struggled to beat out Roddy Ricch’s “The Box” on the pop charts, but Bieber has had no trouble getting a guest verse on his latest remix of the song. Rising R&B star Summer Walker joins Bieber on the track, singing, “You already know, I got …
Read More »James Hetfield Makes First Public Appearance Since Rehab Return
James Hetfield made his first public appearance since returning to rehab, at a Los Angeles automotive museum exhibiting the Metallica singer’s classic cars on Thursday. Hetfield’s attendance at the Petersen Automotive Museum reception was announced weeks earlier, and on Thursday the rocker showed up as scheduled at the “Reclaimed Rust: …
Read More »I Sing The Body WTF: 13 Thoughts on the 62nd Grammys
It could be an entertaining spectacle, if you ignored the crumbling institutions it was built upon and the creeping fear in the air — but enough about life in 21st century America. The Grammys have their own problems, with the show going on in the face of a roiling crisis …
Read More »'One Foot in and One Foot Out': Remembering Death-Metal Drum Trailblazer Sean Reinert
In 2017, when Rolling Stone counted down the top 100 metal albums of all time, Human, a 1991 LP by Florida outfit Death, landed at number 70. Death are widely credited with helping to launch the death-metal subgenre with their grisly, unrelenting 1987 debut Scream Bloody Gore, but by 1991, …
Read More »Voodoo Ceremonies and Cross-Cultural Jams: Inside Jackson Browne's All-Star Haiti Benefit LP
Over the decades, Browne has found himself in some unusual situations linked to his music: singing in a jail cell after being arrested while protesting the opening of a nuclear power plant, or recording an album (Running on Empty) on tour buses and in hotel rooms. To that list, Browne …
Read More »Rashied Ali and Frank Lowe's 'Duo Exchange' Is Free Jazz in Its Purest Form
Every musician who worked steadily with John Coltrane in the Sixties achieved a certain kind of immortality. But drummer Rashied Ali earned a special distinction thanks to a February 1967 duo recording date with the legendary horn player, five months before Coltrane’s death. Released seven years later as Interstellar Space, …
Read More »BTS Plot 2020 'Map of the Soul' World Tour
BTS are hitting the road in support of their upcoming album, Map of the Soul: 7, which arrives on February 21st via Big Hit Entertainment. The K-pop sensations will kick-off their world tour with four dates in their native Seoul, South Korea at Olympic Stadium in April before heading to …
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