Some groups play songs. The Allman Brothers Band built landscapes. Two guitars weave like bright rivers. Organ chords lift the horizon. Two drummers turn time into a living animal while the bass writes a quiet second melody beneath your feet. At the center a voice sings with grit and mercy. Studio cuts feel like postcards […]
Drake is looking to expose alleged acts of domestic violence committed by Kendrick Lamar in the defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group. Drake Looks to Expose Kendrick Lamar Domestic Violence Allegations On Tuesday (Aug. 12), Drake’s legal team filed the latest motion in their federal lawsuit against the music giant over K-Dot’s “Not Like Us.” The […]
Incite Premiere New Single & Music Video “Savage New Times” From Upcoming New Album Incite have officially dropped their seventh studio album, “Savage New Times”, streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you now below. To mark the occasion, the Phoenix, AZ groove/thrash unit paired the release with the premiere of a music video for the […]
Ronnie Rondell Jr., the stuntman best known to rock fans as the on-fire businessman on the cover of Pink Floyd‘s Wish You Were Here album, has died of unspecified causes at the age of 88. Rondell died at a Missouri senior living center on Tuesday, Aug. 10, according to his family. In 2020 Aubrey Powell, […]
Is Howard Stern leaving SiriusXM after more than 20 years? The longtime radio host says he will talk about reports that he’s been “fired” on his show next month. The rumors began with a report from the U.K. tabloid The Sun on August 5, which claimed SiriusXM would not renew Stern’s contract when it ends […]
A voice can spark a dance craze. A dance can change who feels welcome on a floor. Chubby Checker did both. With a grin in his tone and a director’s sense of pacing, he turned three chords into instruction manuals that every age could understand. Horns punch like handclaps. Drums hop with trampoline bounce. Guitars […]
While Erykah Badu gears up for her Mama’s Gun 30th Anniversary tour, she has also been working on a joint album with The Alchemist. Today, she revealed the release date for Abi & Alan, which will land on August 29th. It’s Badu’s first album in over 15 years, as New Amerykah Part Two (Return of […]
Jerry Cantrell has had a good summer. For starters, he got to participate in the “world’s biggest rock ‘n’ roll high school reunion,” as he described his recent experience paying tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne at Back to the Beginning. Now he’s starting the final leg of his tour supporting 2024’s I Want Blood, his […]
“Are you ready, boy?” It’s a question that is so much more than just a title for YUNGBLUD‘s first feature-length film. Four words that are permeated throughout it despite not always being uttered, lingering in the background of every striking shot, every frenzied performance, every stark admission being uttered. Documented in the limbo period between […]
The only woman charged for the 2024 murder of Florida rapper Foolio is set to stand trial next week. First Foolio Murder Trial Looms Jury selection for murder suspect Alicia Andrews’ trial is expected to begin in Hillsborough County, Fla., on Monday (Aug. 18), according to court documents obtained by XXL on Thursday (Aug. 14). Andrews […]