He came down at the same time every day. At 11 a.m., the elevator in the lobby of the Hilton in downtown Nashville would open to reveal Little Richard, looking stage-ready — bouffant wig, sunglasses, full makeup, sequined jacket, sparkling boots — and being pushed in a wheelchair by his …
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A summer replete with festival postponements and cancellations has now stretched into fall, as Chicago’s Riot Fest announced that its 2020 September dates will take place in 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the fest is now scheduled for Douglas Park on September 17th to 19th, 2021. The first wave …
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Bobby Lewis, the R&B singer behind “Tossin’ and Turnin’” — one of the biggest hits of the early Sixties — died in late April at the age of 95. Billboard confirmed Lewis’ death Saturday, nearly two months after the singer died after a bout with pneumonia. The Indianapolis-born singer is …
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Jehnny Beth, the Savages frontwoman, has marked the release of her solo debut, To Love Is to Live, with a surrealistic video for the dusky track, “We Will Sin Together,” which contains the album’s titular line: “To love is to live/to live is to sin.” To illustrate this, the clip …
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In 1988, reality-TV producer John Langley was plotting out his next show. A few years earlier, his first foray into the then-nascent genre, American Vice: The Doping of a Nation, had brought live drug arrests to prime time. He had the basic premise for a follow-up — follow police officers …
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The roots-music duo Shovels & Rope will release a deluxe edition of their latest album By Blood in August, fleshed out with new acoustic recordings of five songs from the LP. On Wednesday, the band consisting of Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent previewed the stripped-down recordings with the premiere …
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In honor of would have been Prince‘s birthday Sunday — and protests around the country over the police killing of George Floyd — the Prince estate released a new lyric video for “Baltimore.” Prince dropped the song in 2015 in response to the death of Baltimore’s Freddie Gray, who died …
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Neil Young is taking a page from the Bob Dylan playbook by creating his own version of the Bootleg Series. He has yet to roll out exact details, but the plan is to take famous concert bootlegs, track down the actual master recordings and release them himself via his website. …
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On May 25th, George Floyd died after being continuously and repeatedly choked by a Minneapolis police officer. The cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have risen up in protest in the days since Floyd’s death, which came less than four years after a Twin Cities police officer killed Philando Castile …
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Queen‘s Brian May revealed that he’s feeling “incredibly grateful” after recovering from a “small heart attack” that left him “very near death.” And it’s only part of a complicated medical ordeal for the guitarist, who was recently hospitalized after ripping his gluteus maximus in what he calls a “bizarre gardening …
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