The Weeknd has severed ties with clothing retailer H&M after a controversial photo of a black child modeling a hoodie reading “Coolest Monkey in the Jungle”appeared on the Swedish company’s website. The singer tweeted on Monday, “Woke up this morning shocked and embarrassed by this photo. I’m deeply offended and …
Read More »Governors Ball 2018: Eminem, Jack White, Yeah Yeah Yeahs Top Lineup
Eminem, Jack White, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Travis Scott top the lineup for the 2018 Governors Ball Music Festival, set to take place June 1st through 3rd on Randall’s Island in New York City. The eighth installment of the festival will notably feature N.E.R.D. performing their first show in …
Read More »French TV Postpones Bataclan Attack Film Following Backlash
A French film that used the Bataclan terror attack in Paris as the backdrop for a romantic drama has been postponed following an outcry over the TV movie. France 2, a national public broadcaster, announced Thursday that they have indefinitely shelved Ce Soir-Là (That Night) after a Change.org petition, created …
Read More »Watch Dierks Bentley Perform Driving New Song 'Burning Man'
It may be nearly two years since Dierks Bentley‘s latest LP Black was released, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have plenty of new music. He recently played one of those new songs, titled “Burning Man,” at one of his final concerts of 2017 at The Chelsea Theater at The …
Read More »On the Charts: Luke Bryan Hits Number One With 'What Makes You Country'
Luke Bryan claimed his third straight Number One album and fourth chart-topping release in the past five years as the country singer’s new LP What Makes You Country opened atop the Billboard 200. The new American Idol judge’s What Makes You Country debuted with 108,000 total copies – 99,000 of …
Read More »Frank Zappa's 1973 Roxy Residency Focus of New Box Set
Frank Zappa‘s legendary two-night, four-show December 1973 stand at Los Angeles’ Roxy Theatre will be the focus of an upcoming box set packed with unreleased performances, soundcheck and rehearsal recordings and more. The Roxy concerts were previously featured on the 1974 live album Roxy & Elsewhere as well as the …
Read More »Moody Blues' Justin Hayward on Hall of Fame Honor: 'It's Amazing!'
Up until the moment he learned the Moody Blues were entering the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, frontman Justin Hayward spent almost no time thinking about the institution. “On Friday, I couldn’t have cared less,” he says. “On Saturday, when I found out we were in, I was thinking, …
Read More »Hear Brandi Carlile's Delicate New Song 'The Mother'
Brandi Carlile offers another sneak peek into her upcoming album with today’s release of the delicate, meditative new song “The Mother.” Inspired by the birth of Evangeline, Carlile’s now-3-year-old daughter with wife Catherine Shepherd, “The Mother” finds Carlile taking stock of her life before and after Evangeline, opening the song …
Read More »Luke Combs, Midland Anchor 2018 New Faces Lineup
Luke Combs and Midland are among the rising talents that have been selected to perform at the 2018 New Faces of Country Music show in February. The flagship event of every Country Radio Seminar, the upcoming concert will also feature showcases by Carly Pearce, Lauren Alaina and Michael Ray. As …
Read More »10 New Albums to Stream Now: U2, Neil Young, Chris Stapleton and More
U2, Songs of Experience“If Songs of Innocence was rock’s most persistently hopeful band looking back in wonder at their punk-rock origins and unlimited dreaming in late-Seventies Dublin,” writes David Fricke, “Songs of Experience is U2 in late middle age coming to grips with an inevitable reality: They no longer have …
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