Music

Coldplay have released an official music video for their recent single, “Higher Power.” Directed by Dave Meyers, the song follows Chris Martin as he wanders around a dystopian-looking planet named Kaotica (the local alien language, “Kaotican” is featured in the video and across the “Higher Power” artwork). Despite the gloomy setting, Martin soon finds himself running through an elaborate dance routine with a group of aliens portrayed by Seoul’s Ambiguou Dance Company. “The video is a metaphor for how, right now, we all feel alienated, far removed from our world,...

Rocker Elle King has toured, performed and recorded songs with Miranda Lambert, but she's still pinching herself over the fact that she gets to call the country superstar a pal."She's always extended an invitation to come out to her farm and write with her, so that's definitely something I would love to do one day. She's so cool," King recounts during a conversation with Taste of Country Nights. "I'm still in awe of the fact that I'm friends with her and she sang on one of my songs."That song, "Drunk (And I Don't...

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds have dropped their new video for “Flying on the Ground.” The song is one of two new tracks that will appear on the band’s best-of album, Back the Way We Came: Vol 1 (2011-2021), which arrives on Friday via Sour Mash Records. The clip expands on the plot from the French New Wave-inspired “We’re On Our Way Now” video, the first of the two new songs released from the set. Both star The Crown actor Matt Smith and Gala Gordon. “Flying on the Ground” offers...

Kid Rock angrily called a group of fans using their cell phones to record his concert “f--king f---ots” and gestured to his crotch in an onstage rant that was captured on camera. TMZ revealed video of the country-rock rapper using the homophobic slur — an incident that happened on Saturday night (June 5) at a bar called FishLips Resort & Grill in Smithville, Tenn.The clip finds Rock annoyed with fans who are filming him during a performance at the venue, which is part of a marina in Middle Tennessee. He begins with “F--k your iPhone,”...

Dave Grohl talks about the impact of Washington D.C. hardcore legends Scream in a new bonus clip from the forthcoming home and video on-demand release of the documentary, Punk the Capital. The film dives deep into the punk and hardcore scene that emerged and flourished in Washington D.C. between 1976 and 1983. Scream, who formed in 1981, were one of the most pivotal acts and their debut album, Still Screaming, was the first full-length LP released on Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson’s seminal Dischord Records. In the clip, Grohl remembers...

Country icon and everyone's favorite rum connoisseur Kenny Chesney has spent half his life in the music industry.As an up-and-coming singer-songwriter, Chesney begin his career in 1993, at just 25 years old. But now, with two-plus decades in the business behind him, Chesney has recorded more than a dozen studio albums (many which have been certified gold or higher), gone on tour a whole bunch of times (breaking records along the way) and won countless awards (including four CMA Entertainer of the Year trophies and four ACM Entertainer of the Year trophies).Along...

Warren Haynes and Robert Randolph delivered a rousing rendition of the Marshall Tucker Band classic “Can’t You See” as part of this year’s Love Rocks NYC benefit concert, which took place Thursday, June 3rd at the Beacon Theatre. Guitarist and former New York Yankees great Bernie Williams and the event’s all-star house band — Steve Gadd, Shawn Pelton, Eric Krasno, Larry Campbell, Jeff Young and Ricky Peterson — also took part in the “Can’t You See” performance. This year’s concert was hosted by Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Jeff Garlin, The Sopranos’...

Brandi Carlile teamed up with some famous "Friends" -- pun intended -- for a hilarious and star-studded sing-a-long performance in tribute to one of the most memorable lines from the beloved sitcom's history, dedicated to the actor who delivered it: Lisa Kudrow.It all started on actor and Friends star Courteney Cox's Instagram page, when Cox enlisted Carlile along with pop superstar Ed Sheeran and legendary singer-songwriter Elton John to join her for a song. Carlile and Sheeran strummed along on acoustic guitar, while Cox even offered her own impressive skills on the piano as the foursome...

BTS member RM marked the 2021 BTS Festa — the annual celebration tied to the anniversary of the group’s debut release — with a new solo song titled “Bicycle.” The two-week event had scheduled something mysteriously called “Bicycle” for June 7th, leading to speculation that a new song could be on the way. When Monday arrived in South Korea, BTS’ social media revealed the track, which was “produced, written and arranged” by RM alongside John Eun. 2021 #BTS FESTA Timeline#2021BTSFESTA #우리의축제시작 #FESTAisComing #BTS8thAnniversary pic.twitter.com/vOxZu2MKhn — BTS_official (@bts_bighit) May 28, 2021 “Bicycle”...

On June 5, 1993, Toby Keith earned his first No. 1 song on the Hot Country Songs Billboard chart, "Should've Been a Cowboy." Keith wrote the song himself; it was his debut single.Co-produced by Nelson Larkin and Harold Shedd -- the pair that also co-produced all of Keith's self-titled 1993 debut album – "Should've Been a Cowboy" features lyrics that are based on a true story: Keith wrote the tune in a hotel bathroom, after a bar experience where a woman chose a cowboy over one of his friends. Accordingly, "Should've Been a...

Racism is baked into the foundation of the modern music industry. The business took the first steps to grapple with its role in perpetuating and profiting from racism last year, when Jamila Thomas (now at Motown Records) and Brianna Agyemang (Platoon) launched a movement called #TheShowMustBePaused shortly after the murder of George Floyd. “Our mission is to hold the industry at large, including major corporations + their partners who benefit from the efforts, struggles and successes of black people accountable,” they wrote on their website last year. “It is the...

John Mayer has just released a new single, and the track features guest vocals from Maren Morris. "Last Train Home" is the first single from Mayer's upcoming album, Sob Rock.The singer-songwriter and guitarist dropped the new track on Friday (June 4), featuring the Grammy-winning country and pop singer on background vocals. The song draws on '80s pop elements in an arrangement that invites comparison to the Toto classic "Africa," juxtaposing synthesizer chords, drums and percussion with his signature guitar stylings."I'm not a fallen angel, I just fell behind / I'm...

Japanese Breakfast, the music project of singer/author Michelle Zauner, performed three songs off their just-released album Jubilee for CBS This Morning’s latest Saturday Sessions. Zauner and company delivered Jubilee’s first single “Be Sweet,” “Kokomo, IN” and “Tactics” from Japanese Breakfast’s third studio LP, which Zauner told Rolling Stone in a new interview “feels like a summer album to me.” “I knew that I wanted my third album to be the most drama and the strongest foot forward — every muscle flexing and using all the tools that you have in...

Eighteen years ago today, on June 5, 2003, Dwight Yoakam was honored for his extraordinary music and acting careers with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Yoakam first moved to Los Angeles, Calif., in the late 1970s, as much for the musical influences of artists such as Clarence White, the Byrds and Gram Parsons as for the TV and film opportunities. It was while in the City of Angels that Yoakam found his signature honky-tonk sound, blending the country music he loved with the rock 'n' roll sounds that were permeating the...