Ed Sheeran has released “Bad Habits,” marking his official return to music after a two-year hiatus. The singer-songwriter co-wrote and co-produced the track with longtime collaborators Johnny McDaid (“Shape of You”) and FRED (No.6 Collaborations Project). In the accompanying music video, directed by Dave Meyers, Sheeran portrays a vampire alter-ego of himself as he embarks
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Britney Spears addressed the court on Wednesday for the first time since her court-appointed attorney filed to remove her father Jamie Spears as conservator of her estate last August. Over the 24-minute statement, Spears detailed her version of the last 13 years of her life, alleging abuse, forced labor and lack of autonomy over her
Joy Oladokun appeared from the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville, Tennessee, for a performance on The Late Show. Armed with only a guitar and a microphone, the singer gave an emotional, intimate rendition of her song “Sunday.” “I had the pleasure of filming my performance at the National Museum of African American
Olivia Rodrigo will host her own alternative prom during a special concert film airing Tuesday, June 29th at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on her YouTube channel. The Sour Prom Concert Film will find Rodrigo performing songs form her debut album Sour. Prior to the show, starting at 11 p.m. ET/8 p.m. PT, Rodrigo will
Modest Mouse appeared on The Tonight Show to perform recent single “We Are Between,” off the band’s upcoming seventh album The Golden Casket. In the clip, the band plays the track in a plant-filled space that has the vibe of a hip hotel lobby. Frontman Isaac Brock and his fellow musicians offer a gritty, energized take
Swizz Beatz and Busta Rhymes will lead a tribute to DMX at the 2021 BET Awards, which will air this Sunday, June 27th, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Swizz Beatz is leading and curating the tribute, while Fatima Robinson will serve as the creative director. Additional performers include Method Man and the Buffalo rap outfit Griselda,
Neil Young and Crazy Horse have begun work on a follow-up to their 2019 LP Colorado. “Crazy Horse is back in the barn now,” Young wrote in the Neil Young Archives. “Shaking off the rust…It’s been a long time since we have been together, and more than a few tears have been shed.” They’re recording
Korn bassist Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu will not be playing on the band’s upcoming tour, the 51-year-old musician announced Monday in a Facebook post. In his statement, Arvizu wrote that he has been struggling with personal issues over the past year and that he is taking an indefinite hiatus from Korn to work on “bad habits.”
Garbage have shared the new video for “The Creeps,” a track off the band’s recently released album No Gods No Monsters. Like the previous visuals for album tracks “Wolves” and “The Men Who Rule the World,” “The Creeps” was directed by Chilean film director, animator, and painter Javi.MiAmor. Like those videos, “The Creeps” combines footage
Ahead of the 50th anniversary of Blue, Joni Mitchell discussed her 1971 masterpiece, the album’s enduring legacy and the state of her singing voice in a rare new interview conducted by Cameron Crowe for the Los Angeles Times. “Like all of my albums, Blue came out of the chute with a whimper. It didn’t really
Sex and pop music have walked hand in hand since the days of Elvis’ swiveling hips. But the 1981 launch of MTV made the relationship even more explicit – eye-popping videos like Duran Duran’s “Girls on Film” got the controversy started early, while the likes of Madonna and Prince built their pop empires on their
Serj Tankian has shared a 24-minute instrumental titled “Disarming Time: A Modern Piano Concerto,” a portion of a classical composition that the System of a Down frontman worked on during the Covid-19 pandemic. “When quarantine hit and all our projects and releases were canceled, I started itching for a musical challenge. One night sitting in
Mark Ronson appeared on podcast “Out of Office with Rick Kleinman” to discuss his career, as well how “a lot of therapy” has helped him to have healthier relationships and work less. Ronson sat down with host Rich Kleiman, Co-Founder of ThirtyFive Ventures alongside Kevin Durant (and Ronson’s former business partner) for a lengthy conversation
Taylor Swift will release a re-recorded version of her 2012 album Red on November 19th. Red (Taylor’s Version) follows Fearless (Taylor’s Version), which she unveiled in April. “This will be the first time you hear all 30 songs that were meant to go on Red,” Swift confirmed on Twitter. “And hey, one of them is
Olivia Rodrigo has dropped new track “The Rose Song,” which will appear in a new episode of Disney+ series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. The singer-actress portrays Nini in the show. “‘Cause I am more than what I am to you/You say I’m perfect, but I’ve got thorns in my petals, too/And I
Following a pandemic delay caused by a busted studio door, XTC’s Andy Partridge has finally announced the first volume in his My Failed Songwriting Career series, a collection of tracks he initially penned for other artists. “I have hundreds of songs that I wrote for other people that they rejected,” Partridge told Rolling Stone in
A few years ago, Cedric Burnside was sitting with his acoustic guitar on the front porch of his home in Ashland, Mississippi, listening to the birds and thinking about grief and perseverance. For Burnside, the prior decade had been one of mourning and recovery; in 2012 he’d lost his brother, fellow musician Cody Burnside, at
“It’s times like these you learn to live again,” Dave Grohl sang Tuesday night, with clenched emotion, at the beginning of Foo Fighters’ first concert since a global pandemic snuffed out live music last March. He was backed, at first, only by church-like organ chords from keyboardist Rami Jaffee. As the tempo picked up and
The Killers and Bruce Springsteen have teamed up to record a new version of “A Dustland Fairytale,” which originally appeared on the band’s 2008 LP Day & Age. In an e-mail interview with Rolling Stone, Killers frontman Brandon Flowers said the original plan was to play the song together live. “But the idea to record
A new documentary, Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James, will explore the lows, highs, and very highs of the funk icon’s life story. A clip from the film, which premiered during the Tribeca Film Fest and will get a wide release on an unspecified date via Showtime, focuses on how James gave funk