Michelle Obama showed her love for husband Barack Obama – as well as her eclectic musical tastes – Wednesday when she shared a special Valentine’s Day playlist she created just for him. The Spotify playlist, which the former first lady titled “Forever Love,” is made up of soul/R&B classics like …
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Justin Timberlake went from the Super Bowl halftime show to the top of the Billboard 200 as the singer’s new album Man of the Woods opened at Number One with the best-selling week of 2018 so far. Man of the Woods opened with 293,000 total copies, including 242,000 traditional copies, …
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Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. explores the joy and heartbreak of love in the new video for “Muted Beatings.” The track will appear on the musician’s next solo album, Francis Trouble, out March 9th via Red Bull Records. Fraser Rigg directed the video, which stars Hammond Jr. and actress Portia …
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Rae Sremmurd‘s third album, Sr3mm, appears to be imminent as the Mississippi brothers released the lead single off forthcoming album, “T’d Up.” They debuted the song at Super Bowl Live over the weekend. Swae Lee co-produced the single alongside Metro Boomin. The song carries the same syrup-y, sleepy beat of …
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Neil Young has kept a pretty low profile over the past year, but it turns out that at least for some of that time he was working on a western movie,Paradox,that will premiere at South By Southwest in March. The film was directed by Daryl Hannah. Young stars alongside Willie …
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Megadeth‘s skull-faced mascot Vic Rattlehead, katana sword in hand, combs a cemetery in search of a captive boy in the band’s new video for “Lying in State,” an especially bleak cut off their 2016 album Dystopia. The song’s lyrics seem to be politically charged, with Dave Mustaine singing, “What we …
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Jay-Z talked Donald Trump, Colin Kaepernick, #MeToo and more as guest on the first episode of CNN’s Van Jones Show. The rapper’s appearance also elicited a Twitter response from the president Sunday morning. With unemployment among African-Americans dropping under Trump, Jones asked Jay-Z whether the president is actually delivering what …
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Thousands of Cranberries fans lined up outside of a Limerick, Ireland church – where Dolores O’Riordan was lying in repose ahead of her funeral Tuesday – to pay tribute to the singer who died Monday at the age of 46. According to the Irish Times, fans congregated outside of St …
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Justin Timberlake released a dystopianvideo for “Supplies” featuring Pharrell Williams on Thursday. The song is the second track the singer has revealed from his forthcoming album, Man of the Woods. “Supplies” blends a steady beat, a sitar-like melody and onomatopoeic interjections from Williams. The Neptunes (Williams’ group with Chad Hugo) …
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Car Seat Headrest will release a re-recorded, reimagined version of his 2011 Bandcamp LP, Twin Fantasy, on February 16th via Matador. In a statement about the project, singer-songwriter Will Toledo described the original, lo-fi album as “never a finished work,” adding, “It wasn’t until last year that I figured out …
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