Cardi B performed her gritty Number One single, “Bodak Yellow,” during Tuesday’s BET Hip Hop Awards. The breakout Bronx rapper, decked out in a massive fur coat, strutted around a stage styled like a city street corner, including grocery store and barber shop fronts. Numerous dancers and background extras (including …
Read More »Carrie Underwood Unveils 'The Storyteller Tour' Concert Film
Carrie Underwood‘s blockbuster Storyteller Tour wrapped up nearly one year ago, but now fans can relive the experience at home: Underwood just announced plans to release a film documenting one stop of the trek. Carrie Underwood: The Storyteller Tour – Stories in the Round, Live from Madison Square Garden will …
Read More »Watch Celine Dion's Poignant Tribute to Las Vegas Shooting Victims
Celine Dion opened her Tuesday night show in Las Vegas with an emotional speech that paid tribute to the victims of the Route 91 Festival shooting. “On Sunday, we lost too many beautiful, innocent souls, and so many are still suffering,” Dion told her audience at the Colosseum at Caesars …
Read More »Charts: The Killers Land First Number One LP With 'Wonderful Wonderful'
Thirteen years after the Killers released their debut LP, the Las Vegas rockers landed their first Number One album on the Billboard 200 with Wonderful Wonderful. Brandon Flowers and company’s first album in five years sold 111,000 total copies in its debut week, Billboard reports. The album’s sales were bolstered …
Read More »Watch Billy Corgan's Cinematic Video for New Song 'The Spaniards'
Smashing Pumpkins leaderBilly Corgan(currently going by William Patrick Corgan) released a psychedelic video for “The Spaniards,” a cosmic, acoustic ballad from his upcoming solo LP, Ogilala. The clip is comprised of dreamlike vignettes from Pillbox, Corgan’s upcoming silent film, co-directed by Linda Strawberry. Like the Pillbox preview Corgan issued last …
Read More »Hear Radiohead, Hans Zimmer's Lush '(Ocean) Bloom' Collaboration
Radiohead and composer Hans Zimmerrevealed their new collaboration, “(Ocean) Bloom,” a reworking of the band’s The King of Limbs opener for the upcoming BBC docuseries,Blue Planet II. The new “Bloom” strips away the song’s driving bass line and discombobulating percussion, focusing instead on a disparate piano melody, an undercurrent of …
Read More »Watch Stevie Wonder Take Knee, Cover Daft Punk at Global Citizen
Stevie Wonder opened his Global Citizen fest performance Saturday by “taking both knees” in solidarity with athletes’ protests in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s most recent remarks. “Tonight, I’m taking a knee for America,” Wonder said as he took the stage. “But not just one knee, I’m taking both knees. …
Read More »Watch the Killers Perform Swaggering 'The Man' on 'Colbert'
The Killers celebrated the eve of their new LP release by performing their smooth funk-rock single “The Man” on The Late Show. Singer Brandon Flowers adopted a cocky persona, much like the characters in the song’s cinematic video, puffing out his chest and employing some glammy stage moves – particularly …
Read More »Hear Willie Nelson and Sons Lukas, Micah Sing 'Mind Your Own Business'
With the release of his latest family collaboration, Willie Nelson and the Boys (Willie’s Stash, Vol. 2), just around the corner, Willie Nelson and his sons Lukas and Micah got together to record some acoustic versions of songs featured on the album. The first of those videos, “Can I Sleep …
Read More »John Carter Cash Rails Against White Nationalists Using Johnny Cash Song
Earlier this week, NPR reported that American Recordings and Universal Music had sent a cease-and-desist letter to Stormfront Radio, the weekly radio show for the white supremacist site Stormfront, over its regular use of Johnny Cash‘s cover of Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down.” At the time, Rosanne Cash, the …
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