Madonna surprised fans at New York’s iconic LGBTQ venue Stonewall Inn with a speech and performance on New Year’s Eve. As Variety reports, the singer was recently named the Stonewall ambassador to kick off events marking the 50th anniversary of the riots, which took place there in 1969 and helped …
Read More »Bruce Springsteen Releases Complete 'No Nukes 1979' Concerts
Bruce Springsteen gave fans an unexpected Christmas gift when he added the E Street Band’s famed No Nukes concerts to his ongoing archives series. Recorded September 21st and 22nd, 1979 at New York’s Madison Square Garden, No Nukes 1979 marks the first time Springsteen’s complete sets from the benefit concert …
Read More »Cannibal Corpse Respond to Guitarist Pat O'Brien's Arrest
Cannibal Corpse has released a statement responding to their guitarist Pat O’Brien’s arrest last week. The musician, who has been a part of the group since 1997, was arrested for burglary and assaulting a police officer while his Florida home was in flames. Following the fire, fire marshals found an …
Read More »Chevel Shepherd on Her Big 'Voice' Win: 'I Was Ecstatic'
“I wanted to choose Blake [Shelton] from the get-go, but something inside my gut was telling me to go with Kelly [Clarkson], so I had to listen to that,” Voice winner Chevel Shepherd tells Rolling Stone of choosing her coach. Now, as the titleholder of the show’s 15th season, she’s …
Read More »Hear Miley Cyrus, Sean Ono Lennon, Mark Ronson's 'Happy Xmas (War is Over)'
Miley Cyrus has teamed with Mark Ronson and Sean Ono Lennon for a new version of John Lennon and Yoko Ono‘s classic holiday staple “Happy Xmas (War is Over).” The original song was released in 1971. In the new rendition, Cyrus passionately sings the lyrics over a subtle backbeat as …
Read More »20 Arrested on Gun Charges Stemming From Houston Rappers' Video
Maxo Kreamand NFL Cartel Bo’s “Hoova” music video has led to the arrest of 20 men, all on illegal possession of a weapon charges, according to Houston television stationKPRC. The arrests took place in Houston after police used the visual to connect nearly a dozen loaded guns to the alleged …
Read More »It Only Took a Year for Miley Cyrus to Pivot Back to Hip-Hop
A year after leaving hip-hop behind for more hypothetically lucrative pastures, Miley Cyrus is staging her return. It looks like there was more money to be made in the genre that brought her the most success she’s seen in her career, despite her very public capitulation to folkier (and whiter) …
Read More »Meat Puppets' Original Lineup Reunites, Previews New Album With 'Warranty'
The original lineup of alt-rock stalwarts the Meat Puppets unveiled a new song, “Warranty,” off the trio’s first new album in 24 years, Dusty Notes, out March 8th via Megaforce. “Warranty” finds the Meat Puppets filtering a quintessential Western stomp through a psychedelic haze of mesmerizing guitar lines. The fog …
Read More »See Ice Cube Perform 'That New Funkadelic' With the Roots on 'Fallon'
Ice Cube teamed with the Roots to perform “That New Funkadelic,” a track off the rapper’s long-awaited and just-released LP Everythang’s Corrupt, on Friday’s The Tonight Show. “It’s an homage to one of my favorite artists in the world, George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic,” Ice Cube told Jimmy Fallon …
Read More »Hear Dave Grohl's Raucous Early Punk Band on 'Salad Days' Soundtrack
The upcoming soundtrack for the documentary Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, D.C. collects a number of rare tracks by the some of the city’s unsung heroes. One of those groups is Mission Impossible, a group that featured a young Dave Grohl on drums that recorded the song …
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