Deciphering where serious Drake speculation starts and Drake fan fiction ends can be an incomprehensible process — people on the internet just love talking about Drake. With the release of Gesaffelstein’s “Lost in the Fire,” featuring one-time Drake protégéThe Weeknd, another beef that is likely unsubstantiated has been launched into …
Read More »
Boogie is good. Coldplay circa 2002 is…fine. I guess, potentially great if you’re Jay-Z. Nevertheless, the Compton rapper’s “Silent Ride” video looks very similar to Coldplay’s classic video of Chris Martin walking backward through the streets like a psycho person and the Pharcyde’s “Drop.”“Silent Ride” is a narrative told in …
Read More »
Phish have to work pretty hard to surprise fans with their annual New Years Eve stunt. In years past, they’ve turned their stage into an aquarium, suspended themselves above arenas in a giant hot dog and appeared to shoot their drummer out of a cannon.But somehow, the band delivered as …
Read More »
21 Savage‘s I Am > I Was debuted at Number One in a charts week where the yuletide Top 10 witnessed an influx of decades-old Christmas albums. The all-star, controversialI Am > I Was sold 131,000 total copies – but only 18,000 traditional copies, with the rest coming from streaming …
Read More »
The late Aretha Franklin owed more than $6.3 million in back taxes, The Detroit News reports. However, an attorney for her estate claims that about half of those back taxes to the IRS have already been paid. According to legal documents filed in Oakland County Probate Court in Michigan per …
Read More »
Christmas songs are really emo songs: the holidays are hard and emotions tend to run deep (or, maybe more likely, I’m just projecting my personal experience onto a day that most people would pump into their veins if that were option). Somber and haunting, yet hopeful, Swae Lee‘s “Christmas At …
Read More »
Earlier this month, Stevie Nicks learned that she was going to become the first woman ever inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on two occasions. “My biggest hope is that I have opened the door due to the fact that there’s 22 men who have gone in …
Read More »
The rising R&B singer Arin Ray teamed up with one of his genre’s most important figures, Babyface, to release “Always” on Friday. Their collaboration is smooth and impeccable, with a melody that evokes Al B. Sure!’s classic “Nite and Day” and winning backing vocals that suggest mid-Nineties P.M. Dawn. But …
Read More »
Elton John and Khalid collaborated on a glossy cover version of the R&B star’s 2017 single “Young Dumb & Broke.” The duo recorded the song live at the Colosseum, Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada as part of the Spotify Singles series.The rock legend reimagined the smooth American Teen cut …
Read More »
Kanye West, the part-time musician and full-time provocateur, has spent the entirety of 2018 tearing down any sense of goodwill he still possessed in order to spite an amorphous set of enemies. His verse on XXXTentacion‘s “One Minute” is the latest example of a man fully aware of what he’s …
Read More »