As tipped here in April, Nas and DJ Premier have re-teamed for the collaborative album Light-Years, which will be released Dec. 12 on the former’s Mass Appeal label. The project is part of the Legend Has It… series, which has brought forth new albums this year from fellow rap legends Slick Rick, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, […]
FKA twigs, Sturgill Simpson and Will Oldham are acting in the upcoming film The Lonely Woman, which stars Chloë Sevigny and will serve as the first feature directed by electronic duo Boy Harsher (Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller). Per Deadline, the movie has wrapped filming in upstate New York and will premiere sometime next year. […]
Jazz pianist Gerald Clayton has a new album. We have a few questions. After a couple of decades as one of his field’s most inventive, talented and in-demand players, he wanted to try something different. So he made Ones & Twos with the idea that listeners could play sides one and two simultaneously. Each of […]
When I share photos with guests who join my Airbnb Experience, “The Sunset Strip: Stories With a Music Journalist,” the first one I show is a shot of me with Dizzy Reed outside the Whisky in 1989. It was taken a few months before Reed joined Guns N’ Roses as their keyboard player, a role […]
Jimmy Cliff, whose performance in the1972 film The Harder They Come helped reggae music dent the mainstream for the first time, died today (Nov. 24) at the age of 81. According to a statement from his family, the cause was a seizure followed by pneumonia. Cliff had his first hit, “Hurricane Hattie” at 14, in […]
The 3D Billie Eilish concert film she began work on this summer with Terminator, Titantic and Avatar director James Cameron has a name and release date. HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR (LIVE IN 3D) will arrive March 20 from Paramount, Darkroom Records, Interscope Films and Lightstorm Entertainment and was filmed at four shows in Manchester, England, in […]
After 41 shows and a box office gross believed to be in the neighborhood of half a billion dollars, Oasis wrapped their first tour in 16 years last night (Nov. 23) in São Paulo, Brazil. The show did not vary from the 23-song set list that remained identical throughout the tour, but it did feature […]
Guns N’ Roses will be back in action with a 2026 worldwide stadium tour, which kicks off March 28 in Monterrey, Mexico, and will run through Sept. 19 in Atlanta. The band’s Sept. 5 appearance at the Rose Bowl outside Los Angeles will be its first show there since 1992. Other highlights of the itinerary. […]
Randy Bradbury’s life changed at 15. After being raised on a steady headbanging diet of Foghat, Black Sabbath, and Ted Nugent, he discovered a dangerous new sound called punk rock. It was the end of the ’70s, and many years before he would become the bassist for melodic hardcore heroes Pennywise, but that first taste […]
Fresh off playing a friendly game of soccer with his labelmates like Rauw Alejandro the night before the Latin Grammys, Trueno casually strolls into a hotel room with yerba mate, a popular herbal drink from his native Argentina, in hand. Unphased by the push and pull of the industry around him, the rapper sees the […]