Jack White kept his Number One streak alive as the rocker's new album Boarding House Reach opened atop the Billboard 200, White's third straight solo LP to debut at Number One. Boarding House Reach sold 124,000 total copies in its first week of release, including 121,000 traditional copies, the second-best traditional copies haul of 2018 behind Justin Timberlake's ...
Joan Baez honored the victims of the 2015 Charleston church shooting and Barack Obama's tearful eulogy at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in the new video for "The President Sang Amazing Grace." The song appears on Baez's new album, Whistle Down the Wind. Singer-songwriter Zoe Mulford wrote "The President Sang Amazing Grace" not long after the 2015 mass ...
Nat "King" Cole (1919-1965), WHEN I FALL IN LOVE
Rihanna posted a takedown of Snapchat on her Instagram story, responding to an advertisement of a mobile game that made light of domestic violence. The controversial and since-removed ad referenced Rihanna's 2009 assault by Chris Brown. As a promotion for the mobile game Would Your Rather?, the advertisement asked if the user would rather "slap Rihanna" or "punch Chris Brown." Snapchat had already released a public apology and removed ...
Herbie Hancock's next album will feature an array of guests including Kendrick Lamar, Thundercat, Flying Lotus and Snoop Dogg, The San Diego Union-Tribune. “I'm learning a lot from the young people I'm working with," Hancock said. He added, "I never want to stop learning. And I'm not even thinking in terms of: 'I'll do this record, get it out there, promote it, do some concerts, and then at some point I'll work on the next record.' These ...