Kamasi Washington announced a new concert film, Live at the Apollo Theater, out February 6th via Amazon Music. Michael Garber directed the project, which documents the jazzsaxophonist’s headlining February 2019 show at the famed New York venue. Washington paired the announcement by issuing “The Bombshell’s Waltz,” a previously unheard track …
Read More »Liam Gallagher Releases Surprise EP 'Acoustic Sessions,' New 'Once' Video
Liam Gallagher surprise-released a live EP titled Acoustic Sessions Friday and with it a new video for “Once,” a Why Me? Why Not track that appears in its original demo form on the EP. The one-shot video features Gallagher as chauffeur and servant at a regal but disheveled estate owned …
Read More »Kelly Clarkson Performs 'A Little Bit Alexis' With Annie Murphy of 'Schitt's Creek'
Kelly Clarkson invitedSchitt’s Creek star Annie Murphy onto her talk show on Wednesday, where the duo performed a remix of the very goofy, very trashy pop song Murphy’s character sings in the show, “A Little Bit Alexis.” In the show, the song is the theme to Alexis’s “critically reviewed limited …
Read More »H.E.R. Performs New Song 'Sometimes' at the Grammys
H.E.R. performed her new ballad “Sometimes,” produced by the R&B ace D’Mile, at the 62nd Grammy Awards on Sunday. She was accompanied by four horn players and four string players; the extra instrumental muscle helped fill out the spare piano melody of “Sometimes.” “I had a plan, I had it …
Read More »Lil Wayne Details New Album 'Funeral'
Lil Wayne will release his 13th studio album, Funeral, next Friday January 31st via Young Money Records/Republic Records. The rapper did not share any other details about the record, such as a tracklist, although he did post a very short snippet of music in a teaser on Instagram. The clip …
Read More »Flashback: Van Halen's Forgotten Reunion Song 'Can't Get This Stuff No More'
David Lee Roth is just about a week away from beginning a long American run of arena dates with Kiss as part of their supposed farewell tour. If his recent Las Vegas shows are any guide, expect lots of Van Halen classics, a sprinkling of solo tunes, and plenty of …
Read More »Inhaler: How an Asthmatic Irish Band Went From Talent Shows to Interscope
Irish rock band Inhaler got their name because of lead singer Elijah Hewson’s asthma. “Everybody saw the band as quite nerdy and geeky and we thought it was cool,” Hewson tells Rolling Stone. “I had asthma for a while and people just kind of started calling us the Inhalers. It …
Read More »Steely Dan, Steve Winwood Set Earth After Dark Summer Tour
Steely Dan and Steve Winwood will join forces this summer for the Earth After Dark Tour. Donald Fagen and company — who recently completed a fall trek — and the former Traffic and Blind Faith singer will kick off their 23-date joint tour June 2nd in Portland, Oregon. The jaunt, …
Read More »Hear Wire's New-Wavey Song 'Primed and Ready'
With gyrating new wave synths and sheets of heavy guitar, the pioneering post-punk group Wire parse what the future could hold on “Primed and Ready,” a song off their upcoming record Mind Hive. The LP is due out January 24th. “Are you scoping the future? Are you scouting the trail?” …
Read More »Michael Jackson Accusers Can Now Sue for Sexual Abuse
Thanks to a new law, Wade Robson and James Safechuck — two men who have accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing them when they were children — will get the chance to sue two corporate entities tied to the Jackson estate. On January 1st a new California law went into …
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