Music

St. Vincent has released new song “The Melting of the Sun,” along with an accompanying animated lyric video. The track appears on Daddy’s Home, which arrives on May 14th via Loma Vista Recordings. On the new single, which St. Vincent (real name Annie Clark) co-produced with Jack Antonoff, she pays homage to several artists who have inspired her, including Joni Mitchell and Marilyn Monroe. “Saint Joni ain’t no phony/Smoking reds where Furry sang the blues/My Marilyn shot her heroin/Hell she said it’s better than abuse,” she sings on the swirling,...

As access to COVID-19 vaccination grows, the Brothers Osborne were able to have a particularly sweet reunion recently: They got to hug their mom, Trish, for the first time since the onset of the pandemic."She's fully vaccinated and passed her grace period or whatever you need after that. So it's been nice," TJ Osborne recounts to Taste of Country Nights. "I went to leave her house, and I was like, 'Wait, I can hug you!' I hadn't touched my mom in, like, over a year. And we went in for a...

Jethro Tull has released a new animated video for their 1971 classic, “Aqualung.” The video was directed by Sam Chegini and begins with the famous illustration of the old man on the Aqualung album cover before expanding into a stark and often devastating meditation on homelessness, from those living on city streets to refugees displaced around the world. Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson also makes a cameo in the clip, appearing via the rotoscope animation effect. “At the suggestion of my pal, Jakko Jaksyzk of King Crimson, I contacted a...

Restless Road's "Took One Look at Her Momma" celebrates the women we love, and perhaps more importantly, the people who made them that way. The rising country trio of Zach Beeken, Garrett Nichols and Colton Pack -- Kane Brown's first signees to his 1021 Entertainment record label -- sing of a love with "a heart of gold" and who "lights up every room she walks in," and it seems, as the saying goes, she got it from her mother.Restless Road co-wrote "Took One Look at Her Momma" with Lindsay Rimes and Andy Albert, based on a...

Massachusetts singer-songwriter Ella Williams, a.k.a. Squirrel Flower, will release a new album called Planet (i) this summer. The follow-up to her 2020 debut album, I Was Born Swimming, which earned her a spot as a Rolling Stone Artist You Need to Know, arrives June 25th on Polyvinyl Records. Squirrel Flower’s first single from the album is a grungy slow-burner called “Hurt a Fly,” where she sings about miscommunications over guitars that gradually build in intensity and distortion. “Took it too far again/Thought that you were my friend,” Williams begins, later...

Nikki Lane co-wrote and sings with pop-rock artist Lana Del Rey on her new song "Breaking Up Slowly," but the new collaboration might not be their only music together. In a new interview, the outlaw singer-songwriter shares that she and Del Rey have some other songs in the works, too.To Rolling Stone, Lane reveals that she and Del Rey have been "writing songs driving around in an F-150 in Texas," and that fans "can expect to see the fruit" of those writing sessions."I obviously want her to be able to have...

BBC Two will air a new documentary, Amy Winehouse: 10 Years On, to mark a decade since Amy Winehouse’s death. The documentary, commissioned by BBC Two and BBC Music, will be told primarily from the perspective of Winehouse’s mother, Janis. “I don’t feel the world knew the true Amy, the one that I brought up, and I’m looking forward to the opportunity to offer an understanding of her roots and a deeper insight into the real Amy,” Janis said in a release, which noted that Janis’ viewpoint of Winehouse “often...

Genre-blending up-and-comer Breland made a stop on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Monday (March 29), performing his current single, "Cross Country," a song that tells the story of the singer's life and musical journey towards finding his unique mix of stylistic influences.Breland first released the song in late February, explaining at the time that it was more than just a song, but rather "a movement that seeks to redefine what genre is, and it sits at the intersection of country music and all of the other genres of music that we know...

The city of Akron, Ohio, has designated April 1st as Devo Day to help the pioneering New Wave band in their bid to enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame later this year. Devo, which formed in Akron in the early Seventies, is on the ballot this year alongside Tina Turner, Carole King, Foo Fighters, Rage Against the Machine, and other rock giants. To celebrate Devo Day, Akron is creating an interactive storefront window and has recruited Jack Black, Fred Armisen, Tony Hawk, and the Goodyear Blimp to play...

Luke Bryan's fun day of fishing went seriously awry. The country superstar turned to social media to share a video of an extremely painful-looking accident that he suffered when two of the prongs on a fishing lure became embedded in his hand.Bryan shared his injury with fans on Instagram on Tuesday afternoon (March 30), posting a gruesome video of his hand, which is streaked lightly with blood. Two of the prongs on a three-pronged fishing lure are embedded very deeply in the soft tissue between his first finger and his thumb; so deeply,...

BTS denounced widespread anti-Asian racism following a surge of violence in the U.S. “We stand against racial discrimination,” the South Korean pop group tweeted Monday night, using the hashtags #StopAsianHate and #StopAAPIHate. “We condemn violence. You, I and we all have the right to be respected. We will stand together.” In mid-March, six Asian women were among those killed during shootings in three Atlanta-area massage parlors. In other recent incidents, an 84-year-old man died two days after being shoved to the ground in San Francisco; a 91-year-old man was violently...

Mickey Guyton has earned her first-ever No. 1 song. The country singer's duet with Canadian country artist Dean Brody, "Boys," is at the top of the country radio airplay charts in Canada as of Monday (March 29).The new chart-topper — Brody's sixth in Canada — makes Guyton the first Black woman to ever earn a No. 1 song on Canadian country radio. In a press release, Guyton offers gratitude to Canadian country radio stations "for supporting diversity," and to Brody, whom she describes as "so gracious to ask me to...

Nike has filed a lawsuit against MSCHF, the art collective that designed Lil Nas X’s “Satan shoes“, which went on sale Monday, March 29th. In the lawsuit, obtained by Rolling Stone, Nike said the “Satan shoe” was made without the company’s “approval or authorization.” It adds that the shoe is “likely to cause confusion and dilution and create an erroneous association between MSCHF’s products and Nike,” and that the shoe has already caused “significant harm to goodwill, including among consumers who believe that Nike is endorsing satanism.” Representatives for Nike...

Blake Shelton will release a new album this spring. The country star and The Voice coach's Body Language is due out on May 21.Shelton's 12th career album, Body Language features 12 songs, with a title track featuring the Swon Brothers, "Happy Anywhere" -- Shelton's recent No. 1 duet with his fiancee, Gwen Stefani -- and his current, Top 20 single "Minimum Wage" among them. In addition to the Swons (Colton and Zach, brothers and former The Voice contestants), the songwriters on the project include Josh Thompson, Shane McAnally, Ross Copperman and more."We’ve been...