Music

On Tuesday night, J. Cole decided to release a song that he must have meant as a salve for this contentious moment. It was called “Snow On Tha Bluff,” and it entered the world with all the confidence of a celebrity who feels they are of the people, while being …

Drake easily held on to the Number One spot on the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart for the week of June 5th through June 11th. The Toronto rapper picked up 126.2 million song streams, led once again by his latest release, Dark Lane Demo Tapes, which landed at Number Six …

Another apocalypse; another side of Bob Dylan. The man really knows how to pick his moments. Dylan has brilliantly timed his new masterwork for a summer when the hard rain is falling all over the nation: a plague, a quarantine, revolutionary action in the streets, cities on fire, phones out …

Bootsy Collins feels a lot of different ways about the way the coronavirus pandemic has put the world on pause, but mostly he’s hopeful that people will take a moment to think about their place in the big picture. “I think [the pandemic] is a tragic thing and a deep …

H.E.R. debuted a new song, “I Can’t Breathe,” which she wrote in response to the recent spate of police killings of unarmed black citizens and the swell of protests against police brutality and systemic racism. The musician shared the song during her performance on the iHeartRadio Living Room Concert Series. …

Terrace Martin dropped “Pig Feet” this week, a gut-wrenching new song featuring Denzel Curry, Kamasi Washington, G Perico and battle rapper Daylyt. Clocking in at nearly six minutes, the clip opens with gunshots accompanied by the statement “This video is happening right outside your window.” A woman (credited as Britney …

Five days after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer, Twin Cities artist and activist Dua Saleh has released “Body Cast,” a mournful missive that chronicles the trauma and violence caused by police brutality. The song begins with audio from a 2019 incident in which a cop enters …

Pearl Jam have shared a new video that offers a breakdown of how their animated video for “Retrograde” came together in the middle of a global pandemic. In the “Retrograde” video, released earlier this month, a man visits a fortune teller where, in the crystal ball, he sees a series …

Grimes is taking the phrase “selling out” to a very literal extreme. That’s the title of her first online art exhibition, presented by Gallery Platform Los Angeles (May 28th through June 3rd) and Maccarone Los Angeles (May 28th through August 31st). But amid all the photographs, drawings, sketches, and other …

Hayley Williams dances it out in a car in the “Watch Me While I Bloom” lyric video, a track off her solo debut Petals for Armor.  Accompanied by Williams’ creative director and photographer Lindsey Byrnes, Williams lip-syncs the track from the front seat while the duo dances to each pulsating …