Mention Teyana Taylor’s name, and it evokes kinetic experiences: aerobicized thrusts in Kanye West’s “FADE” clip, melting alongside Kehlani in a “Morning” homage to the 1998 camp-classic Wild Things, casually flexing in Jay-Z’s video for “Blue Magic.” As a dancer and model – she launched her career in her teens …
Read More »The White Stripes Share 2000 Performance of 'Death Letter'
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the White Stripes‘ De Stijl on Saturday, Third Man Records shared a 2000 performance of the duo playing “Death Letter.” The show took place on June 15th at Jay’s Upstairs in Missoula, Montana. The band is seen in their signature white and red outfits …
Read More »Phoebe Bridgers' 'Punisher' is a Visionary Emo-Folk Album
The biting emo-folk of Phoebe Bridgers’ 2017 Stranger in the Alps established the singer-songwriter as a woeful wisecracker. Bridgers was a millennial Warren Zevon who, even if she sang about sexting instead of heroin withdrawal, shared the shrewd Seventies songwriter’s penchant for fictionalizing their own death and chronicling perpetual L.A. …
Read More »Spike Lee-Directed David Byrne Concert Film, 'American Utopia,' Headed to HBO
A Spike Lee-directed concert film documenting David Byrne‘s unique American Utopia Broadway show will get its premiere on HBO later this year. “It is my honor and privilege that my art brother, Mr. David Byrne, asked me to join him in concert, to invite me into his magnificent world of …
Read More »Anthrax's Charlie Benante, Run-DMC Share Collaboration for Charity
Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante has teamed up with DMC of Run-DMC for his latest quarantine performance, sharing a medley with one-half of the rap-rock duo. It was later released on Bandcamp for charity with all proceeds going to MusicUnites.org. Along with DMC, the medley features Suicidal Tendencies bassist Ra Diaz …
Read More »Hear Ice Cube on the Origins of 'Fuck tha Police,' N.W.A's Founding and More
The latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast revisits a wide-ranging 2015 cover-story interview with Ice Cube, where he looked back at the origins of “Fuck Tha Police” (which is currently seeing surging streaming numbers in the wake of worldwide Black Lives Matter protests), went deep on his childhood …
Read More »David Gilmour to Put Out First New Song in Five Years via Audiobook
David Gilmour will release his first new song in five years via an unusual format, the audiobook. The track, “Yes, I Have Ghosts,” will be available initially only on the audio edition of A Theatre for Dreamers, the latest novel by Gilmour’s wife and long-time collaborator, Polly Samson. The recording …
Read More »Flashback: AC/DC Play a Scorching 'Highway to Hell' at Coachella
The team behind Coachella surrendered to the inevitable this week and canceled the 2020 edition of the festival. It was originally booked for early April, weeks after the COVID-19 lockdown began, and they initially pushed it back to October in the hopes that the world would return to normal by …
Read More »Third Man Records Unearth Original Stooges Lineup's Final Concert for Live LP
To mark the 50th anniversary of the final performance by the Stooges’ original lineup, Third Man Records will release an unearthed recording of the band’s infamous August 8th, 1970 gig at Michigan’s Goose Lake Festival. The raucous gig — featuring the lineup of Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton, drummer Scott …
Read More »BTS Donate $1 Million to Black Lives Matter
UPDATE (6/8):BTS fans — known as the BTS Army — matched the band’s $1 million donation to Black Lives Matter within 24 hours. According to Variety, they raised $1,026,531 over 35,609 donors. *** BTS and their management company Big Hit Entertainment donated $1 million to Black Lives Matter earlier this …
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