Singer-songwriter St. Vincent has revealed the details surrounding a new album, St. Vincent, which she says will be out in February. Read More »
Rita Ora or -as you may know her- "that one chick who moves serious units in England but can't seem to find a way into the States, no matter how hard she tries" has admitted that she collaborated with Prince on some music that might appear on her new album. Read More »
Ranking albums is a pasttime mostly undergone by stans and other music nerds so that they can have a lively debate among themselves. It's rare that a musician gets in on the act and even rarer that they do so with their own music. However, that's just what Jay Z did when he ranked his own solo efforts on his Life + Times website. Read More »
R. The best track from Lady Gaga's mostly middling ARTPOP is, without a doubt, the R. Kelly collaboration "Do What U Want." Now, Kellz is letting the world in on that pop-centric Best Of Both Worlds-style hookup. The strangest man in R&B apparently "met his match" in the theatrical pop diva, as he recounted in a recent interview with The Guardian.talks working with Lady Gaga on 'ARTPOP' track 'Do What U Want' Read More »
In terms of "oopsies", this is pretty big. The Hives failed to adjust the canned stage banter that they invariably throw out every night (give or take a few plugged in keywords) and ended up dedicating their track "Tick Tick Boom" to the city of Boston, a town which you may rememer was a victim of a terrorist attack during its biggest annual event earlier this year. Read More »
Kanye West gave one of his best interviews of the past few months on the Juan Epstein podcast. Turns out all you need to do to get a decent interview out of Yeezy is ask him interesting questions and let him breathe. As opposed to poking and prodding the Yeezus rapper, Peter and Cipha asked questions about Kanye's producer past, his future plans,his favorite beats and his undying love of Michael Jackson. Read More »
Childish Gambino has released yet another video for "3005" off of his currently streaming new album Because The Internet. Donald Glover ditched former porn star Abella Anderson (who starred in the lyric video for "3005" and Glover's short film Clapping For The Wrong Reasons) and replaced her with a teddy bear. Read More »
I imagine if you are a member of the LGBT community in Russia, you have to take your victories where you can. Chalk this one up as win, guys: Elton John will be allowed to perform his Russian tour dates as planned. Read More »
Drake's Would You Like A Tour? continues to be something of a hot mess. The Nothing Was The Same rapper has cancelled his appearance at tonight's Grammy nominees concert. The Torontonian MC backed out at the last minute due to "scheduling conflicts" according to TMZ. Read More »
This is officially the best thing that Dr. Dre has done since "Compton" (a.k.a. the last time he worked with Kendrick Lamar). K-Dot and Dre delivered a preview of a brand new, high-energy track in the form of a new Beats By Dre commercial. Check out the spot/promo below: Read More »
Nelson Mandela has passed away at the age of 95, and while touching tributes are pouring in from around the globe for the incredibly influential South African leader, few can measure up to R. Kelly's performance of "Soldier's Heart" (a song he wrote and performed for Mandela in 2009). Read More »
As one of about four tracks on Daft Punk's Random Access Memories that was suitable for repeat listens, the Julian Casablancas collab "Instant Crush" was bound to get a video sooner or later. It appears that the Strokes frontman will be starring in some sort of weird, solo stage performance with a love doll, if this preview clip from a French news program is to be believed. Read More »
And lo, Tumblr did look upon it and spontaneously combust. Benedict Cumberbatch was on Jimmy Kimmel Live alongside R. Kelly, which opened up the possibility of the impossibly British Sherlock actor to read the words of the man behind "Sex Dolphin." Read More »