Though Barack Obama has shown time and time again that he knows music, debatably the first music-minded president was Jimmy Carter. The title for an upcoming documentary about the former president, Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President, shows on a grand scale as much. Carter’s lifelong love of music is on full display in the documentary’s latest […]
New Video: Curren$y, Harry Fraud “Seven Seas” | Rap Radar
Still over the stove. Curren$y’s still cooking up visuals off his and Harry Fraud’s The OutRunners EP, and docks at “Seven Seas”. Lacing up his Bapesta Lows, Spitta raps the project’s seventh track inside an artsy crib filled with paintings, cruiser bicycles and a Bentley while breaking up his weed and sipping liquor. Cheers.
A$AP Ferg – "No Ceilings" (Feat. Lil Wayne & Jay Gwuapo)
Ever since Floor Seats came out last year, A$AP Ferg has been popping up now and again. Back in January, he released a track called “Value.” Then he was apparently in the studio with Marilyn Manson. Just last month he returned with “Move Ya Hips,” which found him teaming up with Nicki Minaj. Today, he’s […]
Pearl Jam Launch Voting Rights Sweepstakes
Pearl Jam and their Vitalogy Foundation have teamed up with online fundraising platform Omaze to not only raise funds to help ensure voting access this November but also to give one lucky fan and their guest the opportunity to hang out with Eddie Vedder and Jeff Ament in their native Seattle. Pearl Jam is asking […]
Cordae & Roddy Ricch – "Gifted"
With last year’s debut album The Lost Boy, YBN Cordae established himself as a favorite among fans of thoughtful lyric-driven hip-hop. Earlier this summer, he was one of several rappers arrested in Louisville during peaceful protests over Breonna Taylor’s killing. On both a musical and social level, he’s emerging as a significant young force in […]
Chris Stapleton – "Starting Over"
The last time Chris Stapleton released an album was in 2017, with the two-part From A Room. (We ranked the pair as one of the best country albums of 2017.) But Stapleton’s popped up plenty since. His star has risen to the point where, in the past year, he spent time appearing in Game Of […]
Greg Dulli & Mark Lanegan – "Girl From The North Country" (Bob Dylan Cover)
Over the years, both Afghan Whigs maestro Greg Dulli and Screaming Trees/Queens Of The Stone Age growler Mark Lanegan have proven extremely adept at performing other people’s songs. For Record Store Day this weekend, the old Twilight Singers pals have teamed up on a soulful and ghostly piano-led rendition of the early Bob Dylan heater […]
Hear Prince’s Previously Unreleased Studio Run-Through Of “Forever In My Life”
The upcoming deluxe reissue of Prince’s 1987 opus Sign O’ The Times will feature a whopping 45 unreleased studio tracks recorded between May 1979 and July 1987. Prince’s estate and Warner Records have already shared several of these, including “Witness 4 The Prosecution (Version 1)” and “(Version 2),” “I Could Never Take The Place Of […]
Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan Team to Cover Bob Dylan's 'Girl From the North Country'
Greg Dulli’s song “A Ghost,” taken from his 2020 solo LP Random Desire, will be released on a blue vinyl 7″ this Saturday (Aug. 29) for Record Store Day, with a new B-side cover of Bob Dylan’s “Girl From The North Country” featuring long-time collaborator Mark Lanegan. Listen to the song below. Dulli, frontman of the Afghan Whigs, […]
Elton John on Today’s Hits: ‘They’re Not Real Songs’
Elton John has spoken out on the current state of modern pop music, and it’s not pretty. “Everybody else there’s four or five writers on (a track),” John told BBC Radio 6 Music. “You look at most of the records in the charts – they’re not real songs. They’re bits and pieces and it’s nice […]