A new museum dedicated to the life and music of Avicii will open in Stockholm, Sweden next year. Per a press release, the “Avicii Experience” will “bring its visitors closer to the artist Avicii and the person Tim Bergling. The audience will follow Tim’s journey from a reclusive music nerd …
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Americana luminary Melissa Etheridge made rock history with her 1993 breakthrough album, Yes I Am — a bold testament to her prowess as a singer-songwriter, as well as her lesbian identity. In Rolling Stone‘s latest edition of “In My Room,” she revives that same trailblazing spirit with an acoustic performance …
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Bank Robber Music and Rough Trade Publishing have announcedTalk – Action = Zero, a compilation album in honor of black victims of police brutality. The compilation will be released Friday, June 5th on Bandcamp, on the same day that the platform will be waiving all of its revenue shares to …
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This November will mark the 50th anniversary of Cat Stevens‘ landmark album Tea for the Tillerman, which features “Wild World,” “Father and Son,” “Where Do the Children Play?” and other classics. To celebrate, the songwriter (who now records under the name Yusuf) has re-recorded the entire album with original producer …
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Future was the most streamed act in the country last week, taking the top spot on the Artists 500 chart. His jump from Number 19 to Number One was powered by the release of High Off Life, which included popular tracks like “Solitaires,” featuring Travis Scott (13.3 million streams), “Trillionaire,” …
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Megan Thee Stallion infiltrates an evil organization in the new animated video for “Savage,” off of her recent EP, Suga. Directed by Jude MC, the “Savage” video boasts a style that sits somewhere between anime and the retro aesthetic of older 3D video games. In the video, an animated Megan …
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Dawes‘ Taylor Goldsmith shared a charming set of unplugged tunes, including an extremely apt Willie Nelson cover, in the latest installment of Rolling Stone‘s In My Room, a series in which artists perform from home while in quarantine. Goldsmith set up in what he described as his “weird office, guitar, …
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The Smashing Pumpkins‘ Billy Corgan shared a stripped-down performance of his solo song “Hard Times” on The Tonight Show Monday. The original version of the song, from Corgan’s 2019 record Cotillions, is a lonesome but lush country tune that lends itself nicely to a fully acoustic rendition. And the lyrics …
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The Rolling Stones teamed up with Brazilian DJ Alok for a bouncy remix of their surprise new song, “Living in a Ghost Town,” their first original track in eight years. Although the bluesy song was released in response to the coronavirus quarantine, Alok applied a buoyant dance-music sheen and propulsive …
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The Go-Go’s, a new documentary about the all-female New Wave band, will air on Showtime on August 1st at 9 pm E.T. The documentary chronicles the Los Angeles band’s rise to fame in 1981 with the release of their debut Beauty and the Beat and examines their career, history and …
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