The list of nominees for the 2020 Grammys is out — and Latin artists remain stranded on their own remote island. Things seemed to look up in 2019 when “I Like It,” the Latin trap crossover hit by Cardi B, J Balvin and Bad Bunny, received the nomination for Record …
Read More »Camila Cabello on the Best Rom-Com Couples and the 'Awkward' Start to Her Relationship with Shawn Mendes
Camila Cabello was thinking about performing her new album even before she recorded it. After playing stadiums in 2018 as an opening act on her friend Taylor Swift’s Reputation world tour, the 22-year-old entered the studio to record her upcoming second album, Romance, with a goal: to record bombastic songs …
Read More »Huey Lewis: My 5 Favorite Soul Songs
Huey Lewis hasn’t performed live in nearly two years due to severe hearing loss caused by Ménière’s disease. But he did record an album’s worth of new songs before coming down with the condition that’s slated to finally come out sometime early in 2020. Thankfully, he’s still able to hear …
Read More »Neil Young Wants You to Hear His Unreleased Music Before You Die
A fan recently reached out to Neil Young about his 76-year-old Uncle Eddie, expressing concern that Eddie won’t live long enough to hear all of Young’s archival releases. “That really bums me out,” Young wrote on his archives site, then outlined a potential plan to release an enormous cache of …
Read More »President Trump to Pay $2 Million for Illegally Misusing Trump Foundation in 2016 Election
President Trump will have to fork over $2 million in penalties after admitting to misusing the Donald Trump Foundation for his own political benefit, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday, declaring: “No one is above the law.” The settlement resolves a civil case brought by the state of …
Read More »Hear George Michael's Posthumous Song 'This Is How (We Want You to Get High)'
George Michael‘s posthumous single, “This Is How (We Want You to Get High),” has been released nearly three years following the singer’s death. The track, which was co-written and co-produced by Michael and collaborator James Jackman, will be released as part of the soundtrack to Paul Feig‘s upcoming movie Last …
Read More »Musicians on Musicians: Carrie Brownstein & Maggie Rogers
M aggie Rogers has a lot of memories tied to Sleater-Kinney, from discovering their explosive 2005 album, The Woods, when she was in middle school to driving around listening to them on repeat while on vacation in Iceland. “I’ve had all these special moments interacting with your work,” she tells …
Read More »Trump Has Officially Weaponized the Justice Department to Go After His Rivals
President Trump has been trying to discredit the Justice Department‘s investigation into his campaign’s relationship with Russia for most of his presidency. His attempts to do so have mostly come through his Twitter account and yelling over Marine One on the White House lawn. But when Attorney General William Barr …
Read More »Watch Thom Yorke's Mesmerizing Three-Song 'Kimmel' Concert
Thom Yorke brought his mesmerizing Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes live show to late-night Tuesday with a visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live, where the Radiohead singer performed three tracks off his recent solo album Anima. Accompanied by long-time collaborator Nigel Godrich and visual artist Tarik Barri, Yorke opened the mini-concert with a …
Read More »J Mascis on the Nineties, Nirvana, and Dinosaur Jr.'s Forgotten Masterpiece
When J Mascis thinks about all of the albums Dinosaur Jr. put out in the Nineties, he says his favorite is the one most people know the least: Hand It Over. The record came out in 1997, as the alternative-rock boom was fading away, and the LP barely made it …
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