Relaxing beats have been strangely hard to come by in 2020, but if you look at the music of one Nathan Harrington this December, you’re going to find where they’ve been hiding for the better part of the year. In his latest release, the all-new single and music video “Over the Mountain,” Harrington eliminates the
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The Recording Academy and racial justice organization Color of Change have announced the #ChangeMusic RoadMap—an initiative that aims to create racial justice within the music industry. The full RoadMap may be viewed at the Color of Change website. According to the groups’ mission statement, the purpose of the initiative is to “work to increase the
David Bowie recorded two covers in 1998 that went officially unreleased. Both of them are getting an official vinyl and streaming release next month on what would’ve been Bowie’s 74th birthday. His renditions of John Lennon’s “Mother” and Bob Dylan’s “Tryin’ to Get to Heaven” will be released on January 8 both digitally and on
Rising indie rock band Everything but the Everything’s songs all seem to be ethical questions, wrapped up in deceptively materialistic lyrics and Generation Me-styled guitar riffs, drum rolls, and pounding melodies on a 90s-style keyboard or, God forbid, grand piano. Yet the music works, and a key component to its working is the depth involved
Roddy Ricch was the musical guest on The Late Late Show With James Corden last night (December 15). The Compton rapper performed his No. 1 single “The Box.” He also spoke with James Corden about Christmas, PlayStation 5, his Compton toy drive, and more. Watch it happen below. “The Box” is a single from Roddy
Ringo Starr has announced his new Zoom In EP. The five-track EP opens with “Here’s to the Nights,” which has vocals from: Paul McCartney, Jenny Lewis, Dave Grohl, Sheryl Crow, Black Pumas’ Eric Burton, Yola, Lenny Kravitz, FINNEAS, Corinne Bailey Rae, and others. Listen below. Diane Warren wrote “Here’s to the Nights.” In a press
Seattle blues singer Anita White, who performs under the name Lady A, has released a new song that appears to be a response to her ongoing legal battle with the band Lady A (formerly Lady Antebellum). It’s called “My Name Is All I Got,” which begins with the line, “They tried to take my name.”
I don’t know for sure if it’s the way she’s saying it or the melody backing her words up that does it, but when Ava Maybee is crooning “Saturday Night… Saturday Night…” almost in a half-whisper in her debut single “Lay Low,” it’s hard for this critic to fend off the chills. She’s only one
Just as memories can last a lifetime, so can the baggage we carry them. In the new song “Replay” from singer Alex VanTrue, with lyrics by James Fairchild, the listener is immersed in the song’s yearning and regret. Besides the interesting twist of sung from a male perspective, the loss of a child is nearly
Burna Boy has released a new music video for his Twice as Tall single “Way Too Big.” Watch Burna Boy move between press conferences, photo shoots, the boxing ring, and more in the visual below. The clip for “Way Too Big” was directed by Meji Alabi and shot in London and Lagos. Twice as Tall
U.S. Girls’ Meg Remy has announced a new collection of essays called Begin by Telling. It arrives in the United States on April 21 and in Canada on March 16 ( via Book*hug Press). Its announcement opens with this description: Never forget /to connect the dots /This book is an attempt to connect a couple.
Lana Del Rey appeared on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform her song “Let Me Love You Like a Woman.” She performed the track—the October single from her forthcoming LP Chemtrails Over the Country Club—in a pre-recorded spot in a rustic bar, supported by a band and backup singers. Check it out below.
Bay Area composer Pauline Anna Strom has died at the age of 74, her record label RVNG Intl. announced. A cause of death was not revealed. Find a tribute to Strom, written by RVNG founder Matt Werth, below. Pauline Anna Strom was born blind in the South in 1946. She was raised in a Catholic
On Sunday, Four Tet revealed that an album he’s been making with Madlib over the last few years will arrive soon. Sound Ancestors is out in January via Madlib Invasion. The first track “Road of the Lonely Ones” debuted this morning on Mary Anne Hobbs’ BBC Radio 6 show. Listen to it via the BBC’s
Bruce Springsteen was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live this weekend, returning to the program with the E Street Band for the first time since 2015. They played “Ghosts” and “I’ll See You in My Dreams” from Letter to You, watch both below along with host Timotheé Chalamet’s opening monologue. Springsteen released Letter to
This weekend’s scheduled VERZUZ battle between Ashanti and Keyshia Cole was postponed until January after Ashanti revealed that she’d tested positive for COVID-19. VERZUZ will instead return next weekend with a new pairing. E-40 and Too $hort will square off in the “Legends of the Bay” VERZUZ battle on Saturday, December 19 at 8 p.m.
Lil Wayne has been sued by his former managers Ronald Sweeney and Avant Garde Management for more than $20 million in what they say they’re owed in unpaid commissions, TMZ and The Blast report and documents viewed by Pitchfork confirm. The lawsuit claims that Sweeney and Avant Garde managed over 30 lawsuits for Wayne and
Tonight (December 12), Ashanti and Keyshia Cole were scheduled to be the latest artists to pit their hits against one another on VERZUZ. However, after Ashanti revealed that she had tested positive for COVID-19, the battle has been postponed until Saturday, January 9. See more below. VERZUZ returned in November after an October break, with
Country singer Charley Pride, the first Black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, died in Dallas today from complications related to COVID-19. He was 86. Pride gave his final performance—a duet of his song “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” with nascent Black country singer Jimmie Allen—at the Country Music Association Awards in November,
Metal’s greatest frontmen have always been singer/songwriters at their core, bringing all of the passion that sparked the likes of Bob Dylan to life inside of a thunderous arena environment (in the best of circumstances, mind you). Enter Mauri Dark, the new handle for Mystons’ Mauri Kosonen, and his new album Dreams of a Middle-Aged Man,
Impersonator Kelly O’Brien sang the Dolly Parton “Jolene” cover to celebrate COVID-19 vaccine. (YouTube/ Anna Morris. “Vaccine”, a parody of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene”, has been released to celebrate the start of the COVID-19 vaccination programme. Dolly Parton has become a global hero in the fight against coronavirus after it was revealed that she donated $1
Bad Bunny has shared a new video for his recent track “Hoy Cobré.” Snoop Dogg makes a guest appearance as a luxury clothing store manager, advising Bad Bunny, “Smoke up.” Watch it below. Bad Bunny released El Último Tour del Mundo in November, his third album of 2020 after February’s YHLQMDLG and May’s Las Que
Dave Grohl and producer Greg Kurstin have covered Drake’s “Hotline Bling” for night two of their Hanukkah Sessions, following their cover of Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” yesterday (December 10). Check it out below. Grohl and Kurstin launched the series as a way to celebrate Jewish artists for each day of Hanukkah. Drake, whose mother is Jewish,
Lil Wayne has pled guilty to one count of illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, as TMZ reports and the Department of Justice confirms. The original charge stemmed from a December 2019 incident, in which authorities searched Wayne’s private plane upon its arrival at Miami-Opa locka Executive Airport and discovered
FKA twigs (L) and Shia LaBeouf. (Getty) FKA twigs is suing her former boyfriend Shia LaBeouf for sexual battery, assault and emotional distress after he, she claimed in a lawsuit, knowingly gave her a sexually transmitted disease. Their relationship was rumbled by “relentless abuse”, the musician claimed in a lawsuit filed in the Los Angeles
DJ Premier has shared a new Gang Starr song called “Glowing Mic.” Hear the track, featuring a previously unreleased verse from the late Guru, below (via Rolling Stone). DJ Premier told Rolling Stone that he made the instrumental for “Glowing Mic” based on Guru’s lyrics “Mr. Gang Starr, I make it do what it do/So
Sturgill Simpson has released the next edition of his Cuttin’ Grass series, following October’s Vol. 1: The Butcher Shoppe Sessions. Vol. 2: The Cowboy Arms Sessions includes “Call to Arms,” “Oh Sarah,” and “Keep It Between the Lines.” Listen to the whole thing below. “On Volume 2, we recorded everything I was too afraid to
I don’t think it comes as a surprise to those who listened to All the Ladies why I made the decision to remain on the GRAMMY®️ ballot. After many conversations with Family Music Forward members and my fellow male nominees, it was collectively determined that removing it from the ballot would be counter to the
Jon Hopkins has released a piano cover of Thom Yorke’s ANIMA track “Dawn Chorus.” Check it out below. “I felt such bliss the first time I heard this piece,” Hopkins wrote in a press release. “It seemed so mysterious and hypnotic, oblique but warm. I thought there was so much beauty in that chord sequence
On tonight’s episode of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert welcomed Megan Thee Stallion. The rapper sat down for an interview, where she discussed her numerous recent accolades, why she titled her new album Good News, and what it meant to collaborate with Beyoncé. Watch excerpts of the interview below. Colbert asked her who gives better