Bay Area composer Pauline Anna Strom has died at the age of 74, her record label RVNG Intl. announced. A cause of death was not revealed. Find a tribute to Strom, written by RVNG founder Matt Werth, below. Pauline Anna Strom was born blind in the South in 1946. She was raised in a Catholic
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On Sunday, Four Tet revealed that an album he’s been making with Madlib over the last few years will arrive soon. Sound Ancestors is out in January via Madlib Invasion. The first track “Road of the Lonely Ones” debuted this morning on Mary Anne Hobbs’ BBC Radio 6 show. Listen to it via the BBC’s
Bruce Springsteen was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live this weekend, returning to the program with the E Street Band for the first time since 2015. They played “Ghosts” and “I’ll See You in My Dreams” from Letter to You, watch both below along with host Timotheé Chalamet’s opening monologue. Springsteen released Letter to
This weekend’s scheduled VERZUZ battle between Ashanti and Keyshia Cole was postponed until January after Ashanti revealed that she’d tested positive for COVID-19. VERZUZ will instead return next weekend with a new pairing. E-40 and Too $hort will square off in the “Legends of the Bay” VERZUZ battle on Saturday, December 19 at 8 p.m.
Lil Wayne has been sued by his former managers Ronald Sweeney and Avant Garde Management for more than $20 million in what they say they’re owed in unpaid commissions, TMZ and The Blast report and documents viewed by Pitchfork confirm. The lawsuit claims that Sweeney and Avant Garde managed over 30 lawsuits for Wayne and
Tonight (December 12), Ashanti and Keyshia Cole were scheduled to be the latest artists to pit their hits against one another on VERZUZ. However, after Ashanti revealed that she had tested positive for COVID-19, the battle has been postponed until Saturday, January 9. See more below. VERZUZ returned in November after an October break, with
Country singer Charley Pride, the first Black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, died in Dallas today from complications related to COVID-19. He was 86. Pride gave his final performance—a duet of his song “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’” with nascent Black country singer Jimmie Allen—at the Country Music Association Awards in November,
Metal’s greatest frontmen have always been singer/songwriters at their core, bringing all of the passion that sparked the likes of Bob Dylan to life inside of a thunderous arena environment (in the best of circumstances, mind you). Enter Mauri Dark, the new handle for Mystons’ Mauri Kosonen, and his new album Dreams of a Middle-Aged Man,
Impersonator Kelly O’Brien sang the Dolly Parton “Jolene” cover to celebrate COVID-19 vaccine. (YouTube/ Anna Morris. “Vaccine”, a parody of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene”, has been released to celebrate the start of the COVID-19 vaccination programme. Dolly Parton has become a global hero in the fight against coronavirus after it was revealed that she donated $1
Bad Bunny has shared a new video for his recent track “Hoy Cobré.” Snoop Dogg makes a guest appearance as a luxury clothing store manager, advising Bad Bunny, “Smoke up.” Watch it below. Bad Bunny released El Último Tour del Mundo in November, his third album of 2020 after February’s YHLQMDLG and May’s Las Que
Dave Grohl and producer Greg Kurstin have covered Drake’s “Hotline Bling” for night two of their Hanukkah Sessions, following their cover of Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” yesterday (December 10). Check it out below. Grohl and Kurstin launched the series as a way to celebrate Jewish artists for each day of Hanukkah. Drake, whose mother is Jewish,
Lil Wayne has pled guilty to one count of illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, as TMZ reports and the Department of Justice confirms. The original charge stemmed from a December 2019 incident, in which authorities searched Wayne’s private plane upon its arrival at Miami-Opa locka Executive Airport and discovered
FKA twigs (L) and Shia LaBeouf. (Getty) FKA twigs is suing her former boyfriend Shia LaBeouf for sexual battery, assault and emotional distress after he, she claimed in a lawsuit, knowingly gave her a sexually transmitted disease. Their relationship was rumbled by “relentless abuse”, the musician claimed in a lawsuit filed in the Los Angeles
DJ Premier has shared a new Gang Starr song called “Glowing Mic.” Hear the track, featuring a previously unreleased verse from the late Guru, below (via Rolling Stone). DJ Premier told Rolling Stone that he made the instrumental for “Glowing Mic” based on Guru’s lyrics “Mr. Gang Starr, I make it do what it do/So
Sturgill Simpson has released the next edition of his Cuttin’ Grass series, following October’s Vol. 1: The Butcher Shoppe Sessions. Vol. 2: The Cowboy Arms Sessions includes “Call to Arms,” “Oh Sarah,” and “Keep It Between the Lines.” Listen to the whole thing below. “On Volume 2, we recorded everything I was too afraid to
I don’t think it comes as a surprise to those who listened to All the Ladies why I made the decision to remain on the GRAMMY®️ ballot. After many conversations with Family Music Forward members and my fellow male nominees, it was collectively determined that removing it from the ballot would be counter to the
Jon Hopkins has released a piano cover of Thom Yorke’s ANIMA track “Dawn Chorus.” Check it out below. “I felt such bliss the first time I heard this piece,” Hopkins wrote in a press release. “It seemed so mysterious and hypnotic, oblique but warm. I thought there was so much beauty in that chord sequence
On tonight’s episode of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert welcomed Megan Thee Stallion. The rapper sat down for an interview, where she discussed her numerous recent accolades, why she titled her new album Good News, and what it meant to collaborate with Beyoncé. Watch excerpts of the interview below. Colbert asked her who gives better