Taylor Swift has already shared her process for becoming “The Man” for her latest music video (in short: five hours of makeup and lots of eyebrow prosthetics), but on Tuesday the pop star released a new clip showing how her directorial debut came together. “The video concept for ‘The Man’ …
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The Weeknd continues to blur reality and fiction with his new short film After Hours, a promo for his upcoming album that builds on the singer’s increasingly meta visuals. After Hours picks up in the immediate moments after the Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live in January, with …
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BTS easily won the race for Number One on the latest Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. Map of the Soul: 7, which includes some tracks from last year’s Map of the Soul: Persona along with plenty of new material, earned 218,000 units in its first week. (Direct-to-consumer sales were …
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Bob Marley‘s family and friends discuss the late reggae legend in Bob Marley: Legacy. The clip is the first episode of a 12-part documentary series that will premiere on YouTube in the months to come. Nearly 20 minutes long, the episode shows Marley’s home of Jamaica and the influence he …
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Less than a year after Mark Lanegan released his 2019 LP, Something’s Knocking, the singer-songwriter returns with a new album he was inspired to record while writing his upcoming memoir. Straight Songs of Sorrow arrives May 8th, just over a week after Lanegan’s memoir, Sing Backwards and Weep, hits shelves …
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A night after teaching Jimmy Fallon how to play hockey, Justin Bieber returned to The Tonight Show Friday — the day of new album Changes‘ release — to perform the single “Intentions” alongside Quavo. The Tonight Show performance mirrored Bieber’s Saturday Night Live musical guest spot from earlier in the …
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Roger Waters would like to see a new resistance movement sweep America. At a Q&A after a screening of his concert film, Us + Them, in New York on Tuesday night, the artist compared the way he saw younger people take to the themes of humanism in his concert abroad …
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Perhaps one of the greatest conspiracy theories in music history is that Tupac Shakur is still alive. There’s a stubborn contingent of people who refuse to believe that Shakur died from the four gunshot wounds he sustained on September 7th, 1996, in Las Vegas. Tupac’s bodyguard has shared that he …
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In early 1974, Bryan Ferry was on an amazing roll. Roxy Music were at their height, carving out their unique, glammy art-rock space as they made great albums at a yearly clip. (Later in 1974, they’d release one of their finest in Country Life.) At the same time, Ferry was …
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With the Iowa caucuses just days away, Vampire Weekend performed Saturday at a rally in support of Bernie Sanders. The band showed their support for the Democratic hopeful at the US Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids, delivering a set that featured cover of Thin Lizzy’s 1976 hit “The Boys are …
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