Panic! At the Disco‘s Brendon Urie has come out as pansexual in a new interview with Paper Magazine. The singer also opened up about longstanding fan rumors about his sexuality and the #MeToo movement. Urie addressed his own sexuality during a discussion about letters from fans who have thanked him …
Read More »XXXTentacion Shooting: Police Issue Warrant for 'Person of Interest'
Police in South Florida have issued an arrest warrant for 22-year-old Robert Allen, who was previously labeled a “person of interest” in the shooting death of rapper XXXTentacion, the Sun-Sentinel reports. Allen’s arrest warrant is not related to the July 18th shooting, but rather probation violations. He was previously charged …
Read More »Review: Jim James Looks Back to His Slacker Rock Roots on 'Uniform Distortion'
The elevator pitch for My Morning Jacket, very roughly, has long been the Allman Brothers retooled as Radiohead. So it’s cool that to hear frontman Jim James reverse-engineering his steez on his latest solo LP. A loving tribute to old-school shit spiritually informed by the hippie bible The Whole Earth Catalog, …
Read More »Dave Grohl on the Foos' Tour, Lost Nirvana Reunion Footage
Dave Grohl had a day off in Memphis yesterday, so he dropped by Graceland, which got him thinking about Elvis Presley as just another kid with a guitar trying to deal with “the effect that young stardom can have.” But unlike Presley and certain other tortured souls, Grohl seems built …
Read More »Hear David Nail and the Well Ravens' Sweeping New Song 'Heavy'
Singer-songwriter David Nail is taking a left turn as the frontman of a new band, the Well Ravens. Trading in the slick production of his Number One country hits “Whatever She’s Got” and “Let It Rain” for more atmospheric rock sounds that wouldn’t be out of place on a late-Nineties …
Read More »Hear Sheryl Crow's New Song With St. Vincent, 'Wouldn't Want to Be Like You'
Sheryl Crow condemns Wall Street greed and political corruption on her sleek new song, “Wouldn’t Want to Be Like You,” featuring St. Vincent. “Money is the inside guy at the bank,” Crow rap-sings over a swaggering hip-hop drum groove and palm-muted guitar riff. “Money is the yacht right before it …
Read More »Hear Candi Staton's Funky New Song 'Confidence'
Southern soul pioneer Candi Staton will be releasing her 30th album, Unstoppable, on August 24th. The album, which follows the 2016 gospel-dance collection It’s Time to Be Free, returns Staton to her roots with a mix of original material and covers steeped in her trademark blend of funk, disco, dance-based …
Read More »Bruce Springsteen Condemns 'Inhumane' Migrant Family Separation
Bruce Springsteen veered from his scripted Broadway one-man-show on Tuesday to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” immigration policy of separating thousands of children from their parents. The singer-songwriter is eight months into his Tony Award-winning residency at New York’s Walter Kerr Theatre, but he broke the normal format to critique …
Read More »Hear the Mountain Goats' Long-Awaited Tribute to Wrestler Sasha Banks
The Mountain Goats fulfilled a long-standing promise to write a song for wrestler Sasha Banks and the result is a charming, guitar-driven rocker. “Song for Sasha Banks” finds frontman John Darnielle recounting Banks’ journey from watching Chris Jericho on television as a child to seeing her name on a marquee. …
Read More »Hear Mobb Deep's 'Hamilton'-Inspired 'Boom Goes the Cannon'
Lin-Manuel Miranda dropped an unreleasedHamilton-themed Mobb Deep track, “Boom Goes the Cannon…,” for the June installment of his year-long Hamildrops series. The track features Prodigy, who died nearly one year ago on June 20th, 2017. “Rest in peace, Prodigy. Thank you Havoc,” Miranda tweeted of the rap duo after unveiling …
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