On Sunday, throngs of people lined Sixth Avenue in Manhattan for the 61st annual National Puerto Rican Day Parade. Rosa Clemente wasn’t one of them. “I made a choice this year. I couldn’t march,” the Bronx-born Boricua activist and former Green Party candidate for vice president tells Rolling Stone. “I …
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By now, Kanye West and Kid Cudi’s collaborative effort Kids See Ghosts has hit all major streaming services. Its release last night – a livestreamed listening party outside of Los Angeles – was clouded in confusion. The event was delayed several hours without any updates, and one attendee described the …
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It’s a foggy May evening at La Marina, a bar and lounge nestled along the Hudson River at the northern tip of Manhattan. Behind the dock, sweltering Caribbean dance grooves blast from an outdoor sound system. Hundreds ofparty-goers amass behind the restaurant, sweating under the influence ofperreo– a doggy-style dance …
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Virginia Hanlon Grohl, mother of Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl, is developing a docuseries based on her 2017 book, From Cradle to Stage, featuring interviews with fellow music moms. For the original project, Virginia spoke with numerous mothers of famous musicians, including Marianne Stipe (mother of R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe), Donna …
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Justin Bieber will voice Cupid, the winged god of love, in a new animated movie he’s developing and executive producing with Mythos Studios, Variety reports. The as-yet-untitled film marks one of the first projects from Mythos, which Bieber’s longtime manager Scooter Braun recently co-founded with Marvel Studios founding chairmanDavid Maisel. …
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Dierks Bentley‘s inaugural Seven Peaks Festival will include a nostalgic salute to Nineties country music featuring some of the decade’s most successful artists. Set for the first night of the Labor Day weekend Colorado music-and-camping festival, “Hot Country Night” will showcase performances by Clint Black, Sawyer Brown, Terri Clark and …
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Years ago, Bell Biv DeVoe did a one-off show in Amsterdam with Bobby Brown, their former groupmate in New Edition. “It was interesting, because he went on after us, and you could tell he felt like there was some smoke on that stage,” Bell Biv DeVoe’s Michael Bivins remembers. “It …
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Kendrick Lamar accepted the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his recordDAMN.during a ceremony at Columbia University in New York City. The distinction made the Lamar thefirst non-classical or jazz artist to receive the honor. In an introduction that echoed the Pulitzer board’s original announcement, the presenter calledDAMN.,Lamar’s fourth LP, as …
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Lykke Li unveiled two new songs from her upcoming album: “Two Nights,” featuring Portland rapper Aminé, and “Sex Money Feelings Die.” The Swedish singer’sSo Sad So Sexycomes out June 8th via RCA. “Two Nights” finds Lykke Li ruminating on the whereabouts of an absent partner. “Two nights in a row, …
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Bon Iver‘s manager Kyle Frenette, who in February announced he would run as a Democratic challenger in Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District, withdrew his candidacy in a statement Friday. “I didn’t get into this race because I wanted to be a politician but because I wanted to be a representative. I …
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