John Legend has shared his uplifting new single “Bigger Love,” the title track from the singer’s upcoming album. Following “The Edge”-sampling first single “Actions,” Legend continues his respite away from piano ballads with a dance floor-ready pop song co-written by Ryan Tedder that exudes jubilance even in these tough times. …
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Hayley Williams has been steadily releasing tracks and EPs from her solo Petals for Armor project, culminating in a full-length album on May 8th. On Thursday, the singer shared her latest song, “Why We Ever,” along with a lyric video Williams filmed last fall. Williams wrote on Instagram that “Why …
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For the time being, Kanye West seems done with “man-made constructs” like time, space, money, and, most likely to the detriment of those around him, the human language. It’s a dubious move for a musician who has built a majority of their career on the recorded spoken word. “I think …
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Ani DiFranco has been a multi-hyphenate polymath for some time. As a singer-songwriter-activist-entrepreneur-author, she’s released 25 albums and written hundreds of songs in the past 30 years. Now she’s adding a new venture: indie radio producer. On Tuesday, the “Not a Pretty Girl” singer announced that Righteous Babe Radio will …
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Margo Price and Jeremy Ivey have been quarantined at their Nashville-area home raising their kids, drinking lots of coffee, and listening to Bob Dylan’s opus “Murder Most Foul” on repeat. But the husband-and-wife songwriters have also been playing music live, often huddled around the upright piano in their living room. …
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Joeboy’s breakout single was “Baby,” an airy track that zipped along as the singer enthusiastically ticked off items on a romantic wish-list: “I wanna love you like nobody else ever did;” “I want to be the only you wanna talk to;” “I wanna be the guy, [the] only one that …
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Hayley Williams is practicing social-distancing at home like the rest of us, but she’s still found a way to share a new song and visual for her Petals for Armor project. The track, “My Friend,” will be featured on her second Petals for Armor EP, with the full 15-track album — …
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Radiohead have announced a new weekly streaming series to keep fans entertained as they self-isolate during the coronavirus pandemic. Each week, the band will post an archival show from their newly-launched Radiohead Public Library onto their YouTube channel, starting Thursday, April 9th, at 5 p.m. ET. “Now that you have …
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Alicia Keys was the guest on Malcolm Gladwell’s podcastBroken Record this week, talking about her new book More Myself and her upcoming albumAlicia. While discussing her life story and career trajectory, Keys told Gladwell a “bananas” Prince story: She had to ask for the late pop auteur’s permission to cover …
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Alicia Keys put a stay-at-home spin on Flo Rida’s track “My House” during a virtual performance on The Late Show. “This song is dedicated to the moment,” she said. “I have a feeling that we’re all going through a similar thing, so I figured we could break it down like …
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