Music

Before Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow sent their duet "Picture" to country radio in late 2002, the song caused a fair bit of behind-the-scenes drama.There were the rumors that Crow and Rock were romantically entangled, for one thing, which reportedly caused friction between the country-rock superstar and his then-girlfriend Pamela Anderson. But that wasn't all.Despite the fact that Crow was a co-writer on the song, her record label was not a fan of the idea of her releasing a duet with Rock, so much so that they blocked his plans...

Garbage have shared the new video for “The Creeps,” a track off the band’s recently released album No Gods No Monsters. Like the previous visuals for album tracks “Wolves” and “The Men Who Rule the World,” “The Creeps” was directed by Chilean film director, animator, and painter Javi.MiAmor. Like those videos, “The Creeps” combines footage of singer Shirley Manson with a hodgepodge of frenetic animation techniques. “This is a record I was supposed to make,” Manson said of the album in a statement. “Lord only knows what the fans will think,...

Florida Georgia Line and rapper Nelly revisit some old stomping grounds with their newest joint effort, "Lil Bit," a hard-partying track that combines call-and-response vocals, a hip-hop beat and a dash of backwoods twang.The song's lyrics invite a new love interest to climb up in a "big wheel," take a ride through the country and "have some fun" along the way. In the music video for the song, Nelly and the FGL guys do just that, with the rapper taking a trip to Nashville to spend some time riding back...

Ahead of the 50th anniversary of Blue, Joni Mitchell discussed her 1971 masterpiece, the album’s enduring legacy and the state of her singing voice in a rare new interview conducted by Cameron Crowe for the Los Angeles Times. “Like all of my albums, Blue came out of the chute with a whimper. It didn’t really take off until later. Now there’s a lot of fuss being made over it, but there wasn’t initially,” Mitchell told Crowe. “The most feedback that I got was that I had gone too far and...

Dads are the best: They'll take you fishing, teach you important life lessons ... and occasionally act pretty goofy. And judging by the photos above, country star dads are no different.While celebrities' private lives are just that -- private -- it's always fun to get a peek into what goes on offstage ... especially when adorable kids are involved. Jake Owen and Rascal Flatts' Joe Don Rooney aren't afraid to let their silly sides show around their children, while Granger Smith and Luke Bryan have bonded with theirs on the farm...

Sex and pop music have walked hand in hand since the days of Elvis’ swiveling hips. But the 1981 launch of MTV made the relationship even more explicit – eye-popping videos like Duran Duran’s “Girls on Film” got the controversy started early, while the likes of Madonna and Prince built their pop empires on their willingness to break through boundaries. These 30 videos, which range from the earliest days of MTV through the era of YouTube-enabled smartphones, turned up the heat, as well as the chatter. Sex and pop music...

After releasing the re-recorded version of her 2008 album Fearless in April, Taylor Swift has set her sights on her fourth studio album, Red. The re-recorded — and greatly expanded — Taylor's Version of that record is due out in November, Swift announced on Friday (June 18)."Musically and lyrically, Red resembled a heartbroken person. It was all over the place, a fractured mosaic of feelings that somehow all fit together in the end. Happy, free, confused, lonely, devastated, euphoric, wild, and tortured by memories past," Swift shares on Instagram. "Like trying on pieces of a new...

Serj Tankian has shared a 24-minute instrumental titled “Disarming Time: A Modern Piano Concerto,” a portion of a classical composition that the System of a Down frontman worked on during the Covid-19 pandemic. “When quarantine hit and all our projects and releases were canceled, I started itching for a musical challenge. One night sitting in bed looking through different voice memos on the iPhone I realized I have this huge trove of short, special, unrealized musical ideas,” Tankian said of the piece in a statement (via Blabbermouth). “Right then the...

Fifteen years ago today (June 19, 2006) was a life-changing day for Taylor Swift, although she couldn't have predicted the magnitude of what was about to happen. It was on that date that Swift's debut single, "Tim McGraw," from her eponymous freshman album, was released.Swift and Liz Rose penned "Tim McGraw." It was written while Swift was still in school."This song means so much to me, that's why we wanted it to be the first track on the album," Swift explains. "The idea for this song came to me in math...

Taylor Swift will release a re-recorded version of her 2012 album Red on November 19th. Red (Taylor’s Version) follows Fearless (Taylor’s Version), which she unveiled in April. “This will be the first time you hear all 30 songs that were meant to go on Red,” Swift confirmed on Twitter. “And hey, one of them is even ten minutes long.” The next album that I’ll be releasing is my version of Red, which will be out on November 19. This will be the first time you hear all 30 songs that...

Seven-year-old Indiana Feek spends summer days like any little girl should, playing with her friends, hugging her daddy and singing all of her favorite songs."She runs around singing "Cheater, Cheater" quite a bit," proud father Rory Feek shares. That's the country song that put her mommy and daddy, country duo Joey+ Rory, on people's radars in 2008."The only thing is that she has changed the words to 'Cheater, cheater, where’d you meet that no-good trash bag,'" Feek reveals.He laughs as he watches Indy and her friends gather outside of the little schoolhouse on the sprawling property he...

Mark Ronson appeared on podcast “Out of Office with Rick Kleinman” to discuss his career, as well how “a lot of therapy” has helped him to have healthier relationships and work less. Ronson sat down with host Rich Kleiman, Co-Founder of ThirtyFive Ventures alongside Kevin Durant (and Ronson’s former business partner) for a lengthy conversation that touched on everything from Amy Winehouse to breaking into the New York City hip-hop scene to his recent engagement to Grace Gummer. “Looking back on it, if you go to a lot of therapy...

At first glance, both Chris Pierce's song "Young, Black and Beautiful" and its accompanying music video are introspective, the product of just one artist's creation. Pierce wrote the song solo and performed all the vocals — including the background choir — himself, accompanied by his own acoustic guitar, for example.The music video, meanwhile, is simple and understated, a collection of portraits of Black children and young adults. But when you look deeper, the song and its message are both the product of powerful collaboration.When coming up with the concept for the...

Olivia Rodrigo has dropped new track “The Rose Song,” which will appear in a new episode of Disney+ series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. The singer-actress portrays Nini in the show. “‘Cause I am more than what I am to you/You say I’m perfect, but I’ve got thorns in my petals, too/And I won’t be confined to your point of view,” Rodrigo sings on the soaring piano ballad. “I’m breaking through the glass you put me in/’Cause my beauty’s from within.” The song appears in the sixth episode...