Ed Sheeran‘s new album, No.6 Collaborations Project, feels like a game of musical Mad Libs. 22 guest vocalists are spread, seemingly at random, across 15 tracks that riff through styles — lead-footed southern rock and featherweight acoustic balladry, lithe R&B and a clumsy homage to Aftermath Entertainment, Latin pop and …
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Robert Finley, the 65-year-old singer who became the breakout star of Dan Auerbach’s 2018 Easy Eye Sound Revue tour, brought down the house with a performance of his track “Get It While You Can” on America’s Got Talent Tuesday. Finley’s performance was preceded by a brief biography that touched on …
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Mark Ronson is one of several bounty hunters enlisted to seek out Camila Cabello in the Kill Bill-esque “Find U Again” video. The single was featured on Ronson’s star-studded heartbreak-pop album Late Night Feelings. The video opens with one of the hunters, named the Duke, being told that Cabello is at …
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Sturgill Simpson is set to appear on a panel at the 2019 Comic-Con in San Diego. The Grammy-winning songwriter will discuss his involvement in the new Japanese anime film Sound & Fury, a project that mixes American rock music with the colorful Japanese animation style. Slated for Saturday, July 20th, …
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When Martina McBride’s “Independence Day” was released to country radio in April 1994, it was easy to mistake the country song for a U-S-A! U-S-A! anthem. It was titled after America’s most patriotic holiday after all, and its irresistible chorus of “Let freedom ring!” seemed custom-made for small-town Fourth of …
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Blink-182 released “Happy Days,” the third single off their upcoming album, on the annual “Blink-182 Day,” which coincides with the 182nd day of the year. While the trio’s previous new LP samplings, “Blame It On My Youth” and the 50-second “Generational Divide,” featured bassist Mark Hoppus and guitarist Matt Skiba …
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“Fucking around, I’m falling in love,” a distant, muffled Angel Olsen utters at the beginning of “True Blue,” the unexpected highlight from Mark Ronson‘s sparkling new record Late Night Feelings. The track has been ringing in minds since its release last week—its disco sludge smearing over summer windows like a …
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Martin Scorsese’s new documentary on Bob Dylan‘s Rolling Thunder Revue is brilliant — and laced with deliberate, mischievous fiction, from Sharon Stone spinning imaginary tales of hanging out on the tour as a teenager to interview segments with a pretentious documentarian who doesn’t actually exist. On a new episode of …
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Last year, Brittany Howard called a meeting with her bandmates and told them some news they probably didn’t want to hear. Alabama Shakes — who met in high school, broke through with 2012’s “Hold On” and went on to win four Grammys — would not be recording a follow-up to …
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George Strait famously sang about romantic restlessness in his show-closing signature “The Cowboy Rides Away,” but Jon Pardi upends the idea of the impossible-to-fence-in rambler in his new song “Ain’t Always the Cowboy.” Opening with plaintive fiddle, the mid-tempo ballad sets a scene of leaving, but here it’s the woman …
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