100 Gecs are learning how to play with fire. Inside a Manhattan magic shop, Dylan Brady and Laura Les’ eyes pop as they flip open a trick wallet that bursts into flames and click a secret button on a coffee mug that shoots forth a bright blaze. The shop also …
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For hip-hop, and the larger music industry, it’s an agonizingly familiar story: a promising young artist, gone way too soon. In the latest episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Brendan Klinkenberg and Simon Vozick-Levinson join host Brian Hiatt for a look at the life and music of genre-crossing rapper Juice …
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Rick Ross shows off his new oceanside crib in the spooky video for “Nobody’s Favorite,” directed by Shula the Don and featuring Floridian rapper Gunplay. Over a creeping beat produced by Trop, Ross flashes all the money, yachts, girls and houses in his possession, while bright-colored images of Ross’ house …
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MGMT have a new song out called “In the Afternoon,” first debuted live in Las Vegas last month. The official single arrives with a music video that resembles classic MTV-era clips, with television watermarks and creepy stock footage projected onto band members Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser’s faces. MGMT self-directed …
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Brockhampton are no strangers to weird music videos, but their new clip for “Sugar” might be their most surreal one yet. Directed (as many of their videos are) by band leader Kevin Abstract, the short film opens with a couple having sex in a cartoonish bedroom, when they are suddenly …
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Camila Cabello led a pink-clad choir through a rousing rendition of her new song, “Living Proof” on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Friday. Cabello, the choir and her backing band were all decked out in pink — the band’s instruments were pink as well — creating a serene-looking scene to fit …
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Darlene Love criticized Brad Lachman Productions for allegedly snubbing her and asking other artists to sing her hit “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)” at the annual Rockefeller Christmas tree lighting ceremony. “Such an insult and let down!” Love wrote on Facebook. “They book these young artists who can’t even hit …
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M. Ward will release his 10th solo album, Migration Stories, on April 3rd, 2020 via Anti Records. The singer-songwriter will promote the record on a North American tour that launches April 17th in Philadelphia and wraps May 22nd in Los Angeles. Ward previewed the LP, which follows 2018’s What a …
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You have to wade deep into the generous, overwhelming, embarrassment-of-riches expanded reissue of 1999 before you stumble across “Purple Music,” finally available for public consumption after circulating in bootleg form for a solid portion of its 37 years of existence. At nearly 11 minutes long, “Purple Music” is one of …
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In the mid Eighties, filmmaker Taylor Hackford asked Robbie Robertson if he would appear in a documentary about one of his musical heroes, Chuck Berry. Robertson quickly said yes and agreed to serve as musical director for the concert portion of what became the 1987 picture, Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ …
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