Björk has dropped a mind-bending new video for “Losss,” a track off her 2017 album Utopia. The clip is directed by visual artist Tobias Gremmler, who worked on the Icelandic artist’s video for “Tabula Rasa” earlier this summer. The video features Björk shape-shifting in a psychedelic abyss, floating and transforming …
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James Corden is an apparent fan of the summer bop. So much so that the late night host challenged John Legend to a riff-off that put the summer bop up against the summer ballad during a segment on The Late Late Show. “Whenever I turn the radio on now all …
Read More »Michael Lang Talks Woodstock 50's Collapse: 'We Did Everything We Could'
Talking with Rolling Stone less than an hour after Woodstock 50 was cancelled, festival founder and co-organizer Michael Lang sounds surprisingly at peace. “I’m disappointed,” he says. “But I’ve been sort of prepared.” Many who have been following the months-long rollercoaster ride that was Woodstock 50 were probably also not …
Read More »See BTS Star in Anti-Bullying Campaign for UNICEF
BTS has joined forces with UNICEF in a campaign to promote kindness and end bullying in schools. The Korean pop band appears in a two and a half minute video for UNICEF’s #ENDviolence. In the clip, titled “BTS 💜 show the power of love and kindness,” the band members use …
Read More »Little Big Town, Ingrid Andress Cover Dixie Chicks for Women in Country Campaign
While the world waits patiently for the much-anticipated return of the Dixie Chicks, a new trio — or at least a temporary one — is here with a version of the classic Chicks hit “Wide Open Spaces” to fill that harmonious void. Little Big Town‘s Kimberly Schlapman and Karen Fairchild, …
Read More »The Inexplicable Disrespect for Big Sean Is at an All-Time High
It’s difficult to fathom how much misery one has to have in their heart to hate Big Sean. Hating on rappers is often a beautiful and cathartic exercise, but part of the fair exchange should be rooted in said rapper being oblivious or obnoxious enough to warrant vitriol. It’s what …
Read More »How Y2k and bbno$ Turned 'Lalala' Into a Hit, One Tinder Match at a Time
“Did I really just forget that melody?” That’s the self-effacing first line in Y2K and bbno$’s frivolous hit “Lalala,” which shot to the top of Spotify’s Viral 50 on July 1st and has remained in the Top 5 all month. It’s bragging, tongue-in-cheek nonsense-rap with a touch of drugged-out nursery …
Read More »Watch Red Hearse Make TV Debut with 'Half Love' on 'Fallon'
Red Hearse — the new trio of Bleachers frontman Jack Antonoff, singer Sam Dew and producer Sounwave — created an intimate setting befitting the confessional, romantic vibe of their new single, “Half Love,” during their performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Monday. The track is expected to appear …
Read More »Remembering Johnny Clegg's Powerful Mission
This story originally ran in Issue 632, published on June 11th, 1992. As a storyteller, every journalist strives for wholeness and symmetry, for a narrative that after all its circumnavigation returns to the beginning, as if to say, “Here, enclosed, is an entire world.” In both the subject and the …
Read More »See Rhonda Vincent Depict a Relationship on the Rocks in 'Like I Could' Video
With a vintage country-bluegrass voice that beautifully captures both the toughest and most tender aspects of love gone wrong, singer Rhonda Vincent’s just-released single and video, “Like I Could,” painfully charts the disintegration of a seemingly once-perfect relationship. Co-written by Grand Ole Opry legend Jeannie Seely with Bobby Tomberlin (Diamond …
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