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Janet Jackson was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on Friday night at their 34th annual ceremony. The event took place at Brooklyn‘s Barclays Center. During her speech, Jackson called for more women to be inducted. “Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, please, 2020: induct more women,” she said at the tail end of her address. Elsewhere in […]
Logic has dropped off a surprise new project to accompany the release of his debut novel, Supermarket. Take a listen to the soundtrack via Apple Music or Spotify. The project, which runs 13-tracks long, sees Logic go in a different musical direction. The Soundtrack to my debut Novel Supermarket is out! Kick back relax and […]
Those Woodstock 50 rumors were true. On Tuesday night, event organizers revealed the official lineup for the much anticipated music festival, confirming performances by JAY-Z, Change the Rapper, Vince Staples, Miley Cyrus, Halsey, Run the Jewels, Janelle Monáe, Princess Nokia, Common, and much, much more. “The lineup will be a mix of some of the old […]
It’s an exciting time for music. The barriers to entry are lower than ever and technology has made music-making tools accessible to young people with an internet connection, wherever they live. While much of the conversation in 2018 and 2019 has focused on solo stars and rap music’s rise to pop culture’s driving force, there are great […]
Former YouTube star Austin Jones pleaded guilty to one count of receipt of child pornography on February 1. The Chicago area 26-year-old rose to YouTube stardom after uploading his music videos to the site in 2013. Even following the child pornography charges, Jones still has 500,000 subscribers to his YouTube page. According to prosecutors, Jones […]
It’s been just shy of two decades since the release of TLC‘s instaclassic FanMail single “No Scrubs,” a ubiquitous gem that ultimately earned the Atlanta trio (R.I.P. Left Eye) a Grammy nomination. And what better way to celebrate 20 years of scrubslessness than with a Weezer-ified update of the track? “I just thought it’s one of those songs that’s […]
Netflix shared the trailer for their upcoming Fyre Festival documentary on Thursday. The film, which covers the failed high-end festival and the world’s collective schadenfreude over the stranded rich kids, features interviews with workers on the ground and people in the orbit of festival organizer Billy McFarland. Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened was directed […]
The legendary Woodstock festival is set to return for three days this summer. The original event’s co-creator, Michael Lang, confirmed that the event will be back at Watkins Glen, New York on Aug. 16-18, almost the exact dates as the first Woodstock 50 years ago. Woodstock has been revived multiple times since its 1969 iteration to diminishing […]
After their halftime performance, Imagine Dragons officially released their “Believer” remix with Lil Wayne on streaming services. The new drop was met with apathy at best—no one was really frothing at the mouth for it after that show. Imagine Dragons, one of pop radio’s favorite rock groups, brought out Lil Wayne to perform “Uproar” and […]
Image by Sho Hanafusa We always look back on this kind of list and think, “Damn, we jumped the gun on a few of these.” In the past, it usually took a year or two for an artist to really find their groove and reach their audience. One or two early singles would lead to initial buzz, […]
