Will Smith teams with DJ Khaled for a new hip-hop version of “Friend Like Me,” a song from Guy Ritchie’s upcoming live-action remake of Aladdin. Smith adopts a suitably family-friendly, Fresh Prince-style flow for the cut, proclaiming the wish-granting gift of his character, Genie, over a booming bass riff, fluttering …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Mattiel, 'Je Ne Me Connais Pas'
With a cutting garage-rock guitar riff and vocals that squeal with excitement, Mattiel sound like they’re embracing their very own manifest destiny — or, at least, making fun of dudes who think that way — on “Je Ne Me Connais Pas,” the latest single from the Atlanta band’s upcoming Satis …
Read More »Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas Details 2019 Livestream
Electric Daisy Carnival‘s flagship Las Vegas festival will be livestreamed on four different channels from May 17th through May 19th starting at 6:45 p.m. PT/9:45 p.m. ET daily. Sets and other content from the annual EDM blowout will be available via promotor Insomniac Event’s website, as well as the LiveXLive …
Read More »Charli XCX and Troye Sivan to Host and Curate Go West Fest
Charli XCX and Troye Sivan will co-curate and co-host the first annual Go West Fest, which will take place June 6th at the Wiltern in Los Angeles. The festival, part of LA’s Pride celebrations, will feature a lineup a lineup of LGBTQ+ artists and allies, including Pussy Riot, Dorian Electra, …
Read More »Hear Ghostface Killah, RZA Get Back 'On That Sht Again' With New Song
Ghostface Killah and RZA trade ferocious bars on a new song “On That Sht Again,” which will appear on a new EP to accompany the four-part Showtime docuseries about the Wu-Tang Clan, Of Mics and Men. “On That Sht Again” boasts a classic Wu-Tang-style beat, with piano and string loops …
Read More »Phantogram Plot North American Summer Tour
Phantogram announced a North American summer tour that kicks off June 2nd in Camden, New Jersey and wraps with a slot at the Las Vegas festival Life Is Beautiful, scheduled for September 20th through the 22nd. General tickets go on sale Friday, May 17th at 10 a.m. local time. At …
Read More »Woodstock 50's Last Stand: 6 Key Things We Learned From New Court Papers
Less than two weeks after investor Dentsu Aegis announced it was pulling the plug on Woodstock 50, the festival’s organizers fired back at the company on Wednesday through the courts. In a filing with the Supreme Court of New York, Michael Lang, the original festival’s co-founder, and other organizers requested …
Read More »Lenny Kravitz Extends 'Raise Vibration' Tour With North American Summer Dates
Lenny Kravitz has extended his tour in support of his 2018 album Raise Vibration with a new slate of North American dates this summer. The next leg of Kravitz’s two-year jaunt begins August 21st in Vienna, Virginia and concludes 18 shows later at Los Angeles’ the Shrine Auditorium on September …
Read More »Woodstock 50 Loses Production Partner Superfly, Putting Festival in Jeopardy
Days after Woodstock 50‘s financial backer announced it was canceling the festival, its production partner has severed its ties with the event. The entertainment company Superfly, which co-produces Bonnaroo and Outside Lands, confirmed to Rolling Stone on Wednesday that it is no longer involved in the venture. “The producers of …
Read More »Watch Mac DeMarco Perform the Very Chill 'All of Our Yesterdays' on 'Fallon'
Mac DeMarco took to the stage onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday night to perform the song “All of Our Yesterdays,” from the upcoming albumHere Comes the Cowboy. The indie rock track follows DeMarco’s signature mellow style, but he injected the late-night performance with a warm, wistful stage …
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