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 […]
Google Lens already helps you search for stuff via pictures, which is handy if you want to know what a particular type of plant is or what a statue is called. Now though, it’s getting a few new features to help you be more productive. From today, you’ll be able to use the notes copy/paste feature — which lets you save text from paper documents to your phone — on […]
The International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness (IFBB) presents the new edition of IFBB WEEKLY NEWS with summaries of the most relevant news of the IFBB. The new issue of "Muscle and Health" IFBB's offcial magazine is now available both in print and digital edition. Watch the video and... stay fit!
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 […]
One thing Gen-X kids used to do — other people, too, of course, but I’m talking about something specific — was hang around with friends and listen to records. You might have been skipping school, you might have been smoking weed, but it could just as well have been a Sunday afternoon with a two-liter bottle of soda. Maybe someone had a guitar or a drum kit you could mess […]
The Rolling Stones have released the brand-new song “Living in a Ghost Town” to tide fans over until they’re able to reschedule the upcoming leg of their No Filter tour. It’s their first original composition since “Doom and Gloom” and “One More Shot” came out on their 2012 compilation album GRRR!, although they did put out the blues cover collection Blues & Lonesome in 2016. In a new interview with […]
