Soccer Mommy amplifies the melancholy in Bruce Springsteen‘s “I’m on Fire” in her mournful cover of the 1984 song. Sophie Allison reframes the soft-rock single in a ghostly indie-rock atmosphere, elongating every syllable over a strummed electric guitar. The revamped song, a longtime Soccer Mommy setlist staple, will highlight an …
Read More »Brothers Osborne Lampoon Bro Cliches, Space Force in 'Shoot Me Straight' Video
After casting “Donald Trump” as a bungling pawn-shop robber in their video for “It Ain’t My Fault,” Brothers Osborne once again poke fun at the President — or at least his pie-in-the-sky ideas — in the new clip for “Shoot Me Straight.” Vetting increasingly absurd treatments for their latest video, …
Read More »Noah Cyrus, Lil Xan Pledge Romance Forever on New Song 'Live or Die'
Noah Cyrus and Lil Xan pledge romantic loyalty on their new collaborative single “Live or Die.” “On our way to the sky, we’re gonna look down on tight/ When we die, you and I: two heartbreak soldiers,” Cyrus croons over rumbling synthesizer and plinking electronics. “When you lay by my …
Read More »Harry Hudson on New Album, Tour, Surviving Cancer
Harry Hudson stopped by Rolling Stone’s Morning Sessions during his first Lollapalooza weekend as a performer. The 25-year-old singer-songwriter released his debut album Yesterday’s Tomorrow Nightearlier this year. While in conversation with Rolling Stone‘s Jerry Portwood, Hudson talked about the road to releasing his new album and his love for …
Read More »Darlene Love on Aretha Franklin: 'Being Near Her Was Like Attending a Master Class'
Darlene Love first met Aretha Franklin when she came to Los Angeles in 1957 to perform with Franklin’s father, the great baptist minister and civil rights figure Clarence LaVaughn Franklin. It was the beginning of a five-decade friendship where they got to share the stage everywhere from the Obama White …
Read More »See Brandi Carlile's Uplifting 'Hold Out Your Hand' on 'Full Frontal'
Sometimes you just need to let it all out. If you’re someone like Samantha Bee, that might mean a good “healing cry.” Or, in the case of Wednesday night’s Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, hearing Brandi Carlile sing a joyous version of “Hold Out Your Hand.” Bee introduced Carlile’s performance …
Read More »Ashley Monroe Gets Lost in the Forest for 'Wild Love' Video
Ashley Monroe embraces the inherent beauty of nature in a dreamy new video for her song “Wild Love.” A track off her latest album Sparrow, it’s one of the more passionate numbers off an already smoldering LP. In the clip, Monroe is captured wandering through a forest and bathing her …
Read More »Lil Pump Announces 'Harverd Dropout' Tour
As Lil Pump prepares to release his sophomore album Harverd Dropout, the teenage rap phenomenon announced his fall tour. The Harverd Dropout Tour will run from late September through early November. Lil Pump’s tour will begin in Denver on September 28th and end on November 6th in Los Angeles. There will be …
Read More »Amara La Negra Was Born to Be a Star
To anyone who watched the first season of VH1’s Love & Hip Hop: Miami this year, Amara La Negra – bold, mahogany-skinned and Afro’d – is a newly minted icon. To Spanish-language TV viewers, she’s been a star for years: as a child, she made regular appearances on Univision’s Sábado …
Read More »Introducing Tomasa del Real: Queen of Reggaeton's Digital Underground
As Latin pop is breaking into the American mainstream, all eyes are on reggaeton. A rhythm that first developed in the Afrodiasporic communities of Panama and Puerto Rico, the genre has rapidly taken over the world, as artists like J Balvin, Daddy Yankeeand Ozuna crank out summer hit after summer …
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