Lady Gaga has a new album coming out and the collaborations are coming thick and fast. Lady Gaga fans are still hyped about the recent track with Ariana Grande, but the singer's just announced another massive duet. The pop icon has teamed up with K-Pop mega stars BLACKPINK on a brand-new song called Sour Candy. She shared the news with her followers on Twitter and included a short snippet up the upbeat […]
Lady Gaga has a lot on her mind. Like, really a lot. In a wide-ranging interview with Apple Music on Thursday (May 21), the singer did a deep dive into the creation of her upcoming sixth studio album, Chromatica, which is slated to drop on May 29 after being pushed back due to the global pandemic. In addition to running through the origin stories of several tracks from the album, Gaga touches […]
Truly historical objects are often palimpsests: repainted, refinished, refurbished — if you were to peel back the layers like the rings of a tree, that object’s history would be revealed. The same goes for Prince’s second 1984 Cloud guitar: beginning its life as an entirely different instrument — the castoff from a defunct company — it has been nearly every color on the spectrum. White, peach, light blue, yellow and, finally, […]
Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck deliver a searing rendition of John Lennon’s “Isolation” in the new video for their recently released cover of the 1970 song. The clip pairs Depp and Beck’s studio version of the track with footage from what looks like one of the concerts they played last September, where they first shared their take on “Isolation.” Each time Depp and Beck drop into the song’s heavy chorus, the video starts to fritz […]
Little Richard died on Saturday, May 9, 2020 in Tullahoma, Tenn. at the age of 87. This essay was originally published as part of the book Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music, written by NPR Music's critic and correspondent Ann Powers and published by Dey Street Books in 2017. Elvis's two greatest contemporaries were Little Richard and Buddy Holly, each standing at either end of […]
Google Play Music is going away at the end of the year, leaving YouTube Music as Google’s only streaming music service. But before that happens, you’ve got the chance to transfer over your music library, recommendations, purchased songs, and personal uploads to YouTube Music with just a few taps. This will ensure that you won’t lose any content when Google Play Music is eventually shut down. The transfer process can […]
Drake, better known as Aubrey Drake Graham (or as “Wheelchair Jimmy” to Degrassi fans) is one of the biggest rappers in the world, thanks to his top-charting smash hits. After the release of his fifth mixtape ‘Dark Lane Demo Tapes’, the fourth richest rapper in the world, according to Forbes, previewed some new tunes in an Instagram Live session. Among the previewed tracks was a snippet of Drake singing: Come with me, […]
Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, along with his sons Joey and Jakob, performed a cover of “I Think We’re Alone Now” on Tuesday’s Late Late Show With James Corden. Performing via the singer’s recording studio, the Armstrongs delivered a fiery punk-pop take on the Tommy James and the Shondells single. In a statement to Rolling Stone, Tommy James said of the cover, “I am honored that Billy Joe Armstrong covered my hit of […]
Miley Cyrus performed an acoustic cover of the Pink Floyd classic “Wish You Were Here” as musical guest on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live at Home. Sitting next to a fire pit that lent the performance a red glow, Cyrus and her socially distanced guitarist Andrew Watt (who previously revealed he tested positive to COVID-19) delivered a faithful rendition of the 1975 single, with Cyrus harmonizing along with the riff at the song’s end. This […]
