“I’ve always worked on my own music outside of the Roots,” “Captain” Kirk Douglas tells Rolling Stone. The guitarist has been a member of the influential hip-hop group since 2003. But on May 24th, he’ll release his first solo album, Turbulent Times, under the moniker Hundred Watt Heart. “Releasing it …
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Bernie Tormé, a guitarist who had played with Ozzy Osbourne and former Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan’s band Gillan, died on Sunday at the age of 66. Mik Gaffney, Tormé drummer, confirmed the news on Facebook. Last month, his Twitter account posted that he was extremely ill and in intensive …
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Carly Rae Jepsen finds true, everlasting love with a cat in the new video for “Now That I Found You.” In the Carlos Lopez Estrada and Nelson de Castro-directed clip, Jepsen happens upon an adorable Scottish fold (played by the Instagram-famous feline, Shrampton) in a rainstorm, rescues him and brings …
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Ariana Grande helps 2 Chainz host an opulent soirée in the video for their new collaboration, “Rule the World.” The Sebastian Sdaigui-directed video boasts a 1920s flair as 2 Chainz and Grande perform for a horde of revelers in a swinging club lit by chandeliers dripping with crystals. As the …
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Juice WRLD‘s “Lucid Dreams” was fraught and wounded, a stinging narrative of betrayal softened, slightly, by a sample of the actual Sting. Streamers gobbled it up — “Lucid Dreams” became the most-streamed single of 2018 not made by Drake — and commuters stuck in traffic enjoyed it too: “Lucid Dreams” …
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On their debut Antidotes, produced by TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek, Foals stepped from their stalls with shifty post-punk grooves, kinetic percussion, and nervous, sulky vibes. By 2013, with Holy Fire, they smoothed and super-sized their sound with production from U2 vets Flood and Alan Moulder. Their latest LP …
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When asked how he visualized himself during a radio interview last April, Kevin Fret — Latin trap’s most unapologetically, and perhaps first openly gay artist — conjured a hippodrome: “Once you let horses free from their stables,” said Fret, “It’s difficult to catch them.” Posing the question was DJ Candy …
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Ben Folds and Violent Femmes announced a co-headlining summer tour. The 14-date U.S. trek launches July 28th in Uncasville, Connecticut and concludes August 16th in Kansas City, Missouri. An artist pre-sale begins Tuesday, March 5th at 10 a.m. local time. General public tickets for most shows go on sale Friday, …
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Pharrell will launch a new multi-day music festival, Something In the Water, this spring featuring performances from Missy Elliott, Migos, Janelle Monáe, Travis Scott and more. The festival will take place on the beach in the musician’s hometown, Virginia Beach, Virginia, April 26th through 28th. The lineup for Something in …
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Maluma released “HP,” the latest in a long line of hooky pop-reggaeton singles, on Friday. It will appear on his upcoming album, titled 11:11. “HP” started “three months ago in a hotel room in Bolivia,” Maluma tells Rolling Stone. “I have friends in Colombia where I’m from, and these girls …
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