Paramount will air the Sept. 3 Taylor Hawkins tribute concert live from London’s Wembley Stadium across Paramount+ (domestically), Pluto TV (internationally) and MTV Brand YouTube Channels (globally). In addition, CBS will air an hour-long edition of the show that night, while MTV’s one-hour special will air that night in Latin America and the following day […]
After a two-year hiatus, Oslo hosted the 21st year of Øya Festival last weekend. Headliners included Gorillaz, Florence and the Machine, and Nick Cave—making it feel like a more laid-back version of say, Coachella or Governor’s Ball. (Why wouldn’t you want to attend a music festival where you have the option of taking a morning […]
Some of the top names in country and roots music have joined forces for Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver, due Nov. 11 from New West Records and Pedernales Records. The album was produced by Charlie Sexton and Freddy Fletcher and is led by Willie Nelson and Lucinda Williams’ cover of Shaver’s “Live […]
A previously unreleased live version of Sleater-Kinney’s “Complex Female Characters” has hit Bandcamp ahead of the Aug. 19 arrival of the Courtney Barnett-steered charity compilation Here and There: B-Sides, Live Tracks + Demos. All proceeds will benefit the National Network of Abortion Funds and Advocates for Youth. The album is named after Barnett’s in-progress festival […]
A$AP Rocky has been charged with two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced the charges on Monday afternoon. Rocky, born Rakim Mayers, is set to be arraigned on Aug. 17. “Discharging a gun in a public place is a serious offense that could have ended with […]
Just after releasing her latest studio album, Megan Thee Stallion has shared the video for “Her.” The black and white, Colin Tilley-directed video is all about “her, her, her, she, she, she, me, me, me”—i.e. Meg. [embedded content][embedded content] The Stallion parades amongst Sia-haired dancers, spiting everyone who doesn’t accept her. She closes the first […]
Looking back at 1982 in music, the headline is obvious: Thriller Sells A Bajillion Copies, Becomes World’s Biggest Album. But is it the year’s best album? Funny enough, Michael Jackson‘s sixth LP hardly even affected the charts that year — it snuck out in late November, just as Men at Work’s 1981 blockbuster, Business as […]
Lizzo, Jack Harlow, Blackpink, and Maneskin have been added to the performance lineup for the MTV Video Music Awards, which will be handed out on Aug. 28 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. They join previously-announced performers Anitta, J Balvin, Marshmello and Khalid, Panic! At The Disco, Kane Brown, and Nicki Minaj, the latter […]
Adele has spoken in detail for the first time about the circumstances behind the January cancellation of her planned residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, which will finally resume on Nov. 18. In an interview with Elle, the British vocalist admits “there was just no soul in” the show. “The stage […]
This week marks the 53rd anniversary of Woodstock — the music and art fair of 1969, originally announced as “An Aquarian Exposition,” which took place at Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, New York, after promoters couldn’t find a festival location in the town of Woodstock itself, a well-known haven for musicians at the […]