The Abbey Road Institute — a music production education program held in London’s legendary Abbey Road Studios— has announced the opening of their first school in the United States. Located in Miami, Florida, the new school will open in conjunction with the Miami Art House Studio, the bilingual music institution …
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Morrissey croons some kindly encouragement in his new song, “Knockabout World,” from his upcoming album, I Am Not a Dog on a Chain, out March 20th via BMG. The song opens with a punchy New Wave groove but builds into a lush, orchestral pop tune replete with strings, horns, and …
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Former California Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher says he spoke with Julian Assange about getting the WikiLeaks founder a pardon from President Trump. Rohrabacher on Thursday confirmed a recent report from the Guardian that Assange’s lawyers told a court in London that the former congressman made the offer in 2017. Assange, …
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She’s back — and she’s terrible for SEO. The Venezuelan artist-producer Arca premiered her near hourlong song, “@@@@@,” now available for listening via Diva Experimental FM, a special collaboration with NTS Radio. It’s Arca’s first new music since releasing her eponymous 2017 LP, which was named one of Rolling Stone‘s …
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Peter Frampton has teamed up with former Rolling Stone editor Alan Light for a memoir, Do You Feel Like I Do?, set for release on October 20th. “This is my journey,” Frampton says in a statement. “All I ever wanted to do was play guitar and it’s taken me many …
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Eric Clapton assembled an incredible roster of musicians on Sunday evening to honor the late Ginger Baker at the Eventim Apollo Hammersmith in London: Roger Waters, Nile Rodgers, Ron Wood, Steve Winwood and Paul Carrack, along with Baker’s son Kofi. The show was centered around songs by Cream and Blind …
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If you want a snapshot of the confusing and camouflaged nature of the modern record deal, check out the top tracks in the Rolling Stone chart today — and then go take a look at their details on Amazon. At least three of the artists involved are not on simple, …
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What does James Bond sound like in 2020? Judging by “No Time to Die,” Billie Eilish’s new theme song for the 25th Bond film, he’s a little exhausted. And doesn’t that make a strange kind of sense? How does a martini-swilling, womanizing International Man of Mystery come out unscathed by …
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The Weeknd and his new mustache announced Thursday that their new album is titled After Hours.And let he who has not had a bad bout of facial hair cast the first stone. Admittedly, my entire life is a monument to weird facial-hair choices, but nonetheless one has to admit the …
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Snoop Dogg publicly apologized to Gayle King on Wednesday after he verbally attacked her on social media for bringing up the rape allegations against the late Kobe Bryant in an interview with WNBA’s Lisa Leslie. In an interview clip from CBS This Morning last week, King asked Leslie if she …
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