Deftones have postponed their North American summer tour due to the coronavirus pandemic. The nearly 30-date trek was slated to be the band’s first full U.S. summer tour since 2017. Originally scheduled to kick off on July 27th in Portland, Oregon at Theater of the Clouds at Moda Center and …
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Michael McDonald has released audio from his live rendition of “What the World Needs Now,” originally written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach in 1965. The timely concert recording premiered on Billboard alongside a lyric video, depicting heartwarming home videos of family and the outdoors. McDonald told Billboard that he likes …
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David Gilmour has always worked hard to keep the memory of his Pink Floyd predecessor, Syd Barrett, alive. Most recently, he paid tribute by covering two tracks by Barrett on a family livestream. Over the years, Gilmour has kept songs from 1967’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn as …
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The annals of rock & roll folklore are full of tough mothers, evil mothers, motorcycle mamas, mothers of invention. Although stars love to get sentimental over their mamas, there’s something special about the fearsome, badass maternal figures of rock & roll — whether it’s LL Cool J’s mama telling him …
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Ben Platt has revealed a powerful new ballad from the deluxe edition of his debut albumSing to Me Instead. Grammy Award winner Finneas produced the song. On “So Will I,” Platt offers words of comfort to a friend or partner who worries about the uncertainty of the future. “The world …
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The 1975 frontman Matty Healy announced that he’ll be launching a podcast in partnership with The Face magazine, with the first episode featuring Brian Eno dropping Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. ET. The podcast also features Healy in conversation with other musical guests, including Stevie Nicks, Kim Gordon, Steve Reich, Conor …
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Alice Bag, Fugazi’s Guy Picciotto, Speedy Ortiz, DIIV, Geoff Rickly of Thursday, and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo are among the hundreds of musicians to sign a new letter to Congress demanding more aid for musicians struggling during the COVID-19 crisis. The organization behind the letter is the newly launched labor …
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Earlier this week, Sting appeared with Shaggy on an installment ofRolling Stone’s In My Room IGTV series, and now, the artist and former Police frontman is back with his own video, where he called in from his home in Wiltshire, England. “I’m lucky enough to have a recording studio here, …
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Some artists surround themselves with managers and consultants, and strategize for months on how to get their album to the top of the charts. Mariah Carey hit Number One while she was sleeping. On Monday, Carey’s eleventh studio album, E=MC2, shot to the top of the iTunes album chart, after …
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James Blake has dropped his dreamy new love song “You’re Too Precious,” the singer’s first new music since 2019’s Assume Form. “After a certain amount of time, somebody becomes too precious to lose,” Blake told Apple Music of the track, an ode of sorts to his girlfriend, The Good Place …
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