ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons has released a new music video for “My Lucky Card,” a track off his upcoming album, Hardware, out June 4th via Concord. The clip was filmed in and around Pappy and Harriett’s Pioneertown Palace, a famous honky-tonk in Pioneertown, California (just outside Joshua Tree), that was …
Read More »Liars Preview New Album 'The Apple Drop' With Off-Kilter 'Sekwar'
Liars have released a new song, “Sekwar,” from their upcoming album, The Apple Drop, set to arrive August 6th via Mute. “Sekwar” boasts a mix of lurching drums, rich guitars, and pulsing synths that sometimes stumble around each other and sometimes link up in unison. “When the fog that grows …
Read More »Pink to Receive Icon Award at 2021 Billboard Music Awards
Dick Clark Productions and NBC announced on Tuesday that Pink will receive the Icon Award at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards. The three-time BBMA winner joins nine other recipients of the Icon Award, including Garth Brooks, Cher, Neil Diamond, Celine Dion, Jennifer Lopez, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Janet Jackson, and Mariah …
Read More »Billy Bragg, Lucy Dacus Set for Conversation Series Supporting Labor Reform
Billy Bragg, Lucy Dacus and more will participate in a series of conversation with labor leaders around the country to raise awareness for the Protecting the Right to Organize Act. The series, which is being hosted by the Working Families Party, will kick off tomorrow, May 1st, which is also …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Myke Towers, 'Pin Pin'
Myke Towers‘ new album,Lyke Mike, is 65 minutes of dogged, hard-nosed trap — full of blaring bass that’s sure to wake up the neighbors, clenched, claustrophobic drums, and drubbing raps. But “Pin Pin,” which comes early in the 23-song set, offers a welcome moment of levity: Towers builds the track …
Read More »Bootsy Collins Pays Tribute to Late Digital Underground Mastermind Shock G
Bootsy Collins celebrated Gregory Jacobs — the Digital Underground rapper-producer better known as Shock G and Humpty Hump — in a tribute shared with Rolling Stone following the musician’s death Thursday at the age of 57. Collins and Parliament-Funkadelic were a tremendous influence on Shock G, who sampled funk’s elder …
Read More »Bonnie Tyler Remembers Jim Steinman: 'He Was a True Genius'
Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler has been making music for the past five decades, but she’s best known for her Eighties work with Jim Steinman that produced the timeless hits “Holding Out for a Hero” and “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” Rolling Stone reached out to Tyler following Steinman’s death, and …
Read More »Atoms for Peace's Joey Waronker, Mauro Refosco Form Jomoro, Drop Single With Lucius
Drummer Joey Waronker and percussionist Mauro Refosco have formed the group Jomoro, dropping the lead single “Delicate Butterfly.” Lucius provides shimmering vocals to the track, backed by subtle instrumentation that stretches to nearly four minutes. The track follows “Mirror,” released last month. The group also announced the album Blue Marble Sky, …
Read More »Olly Alexander Meets His Match in Years & Years' 'Starstruck' Video
Olly Alexander‘s role in the HBO Max series It’s a Sin introduced the British pop star to a whole new audience, many of whom may not be as familiar with his musical output. Now his band, Years & Years, have released a new song, “Starstruck,” with a video that features …
Read More »Flashback: Radiohead Resurrect 'Subterranean Homesick Alien' in 2011
Radiohead revived their Radiohead Public Library concert series this week by sharing an In Rainbows–era performance at the tiny London club 93 Feet East on January 16th, 2008. Seven more shows are coming during the next couple of months. The series kicked off a year ago when the band shared …
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