A month and change into quarantine, the number of music videos shot at home is starting to swell. Here’s Drake parading around his palatial mansion; there’s the rising band Younger Hunger making mayhem in their modest backyard. Toni Braxton offered up a homemade clip of her own on Friday: a …
Read More »'RS Interview: Special Edition' With Roger Waters
Who better to speak to at the moment than Roger Waters, who wrote about living in “perfect isolation/here behind my wall” back in 1979? The Pink Floyd co-founder and stadium-filling solo artist, who had to postpone his This Is Not a Drill Tour — which was supposed to kick off …
Read More »Social Distancing With Warren Haynes: Canceled Shows, New Songs, and Bill Withers
As the world fights a pandemic, we reached out to some of our favorite artists with a few quarantine questions about these unprecedented times. Warren Haynes played at one of the last major arena shows before the lockdown – the “Brothers” tribute to the Allman Brothers Band on March 10 …
Read More »Halsey Donates 100,000 Masks to L.A. Hospitals Fighting COVID-19
Halsey has donated 100,000 masks to various hospitals in Los Angeles that are treating patients with COVID-19. The singer wrote in Instagram: “Every single day I am in awe of the medical workers on the frontlines. Their determination, selflessness and empathy is the single greatest example of our capacity to …
Read More »Flashback: Hal Willner Recruits Leonard Cohen, Sonny Rollins for Transfixing 'Who by Fire'
Hal Willner wasn’t known for playing music himself. But the producer, who died Monday at 64, had a unique gift for making music happen. Through his marvelously eclectic tribute albums — which featured everything from Tom Waits yowling out Snow White’s “Heigh Ho (The Dwarf’s Marching Song)” to Debbie Harry …
Read More »Tekashi 6ix9ine Released From Prison Over Coronavirus Fears
UPDATE:Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine will be released from prison after the presiding Judge Paul Engelmayer ruled that “in light of the heightened medical risk presented to Mr. Hernandez by the COVID-19 pandemic, there are extraordinary and compelling reasons to reduce Mr. Hernandez’s sentence in the manner requested,” according to a ruling …
Read More »Billie Eilish, Moby Reflect on Coachella in Festival Doc Trailer
Billie Eilish, Moby, Ice Cube and Perry Farrell marvel at the grand spectacle of Coachella in the new trailer for a documentary about the long-running music festival. The YouTube Original film, Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert, will stream for free starting April 10th. “Everybody knows what Coachella is,” Eilish …
Read More »Big Sean Details New Album 'Detroit 2'
Big Sean has announced the title of his upcoming studio album. Detroit 2, which does not yet have a release date, is due out via G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam and follows 2017’s I Decided and his Double or Nothing collaborative album with Metro Boomin. The rapper unveiled the news on Wednesday, which …
Read More »Watch John Legend Perform 'Actions' on At-Home Edition of 'Fallon'
In the latest edition of Jimmy Fallon‘s at-home version of The Tonight Show, the host tapped John Legend to make a guest appearance via video chat. In the episode, Legend discussed and performed his new single “Actions.” Legend shared what he’s been doing in self-quarantine, including binging Peaky Blinders and …
Read More »Haim Postpone New Album Due to Coronavirus Concerns
Haim announced they’ll be postponing the release of their upcoming album, Women in Music Part III, to this summer. The LP was originally slated for April 24th on Columbia. “We’re on day 11 of quarantine, which has given us a lot of time to think,” the sister trio wrote on …
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