Gary Clark Jr. and Jon Batiste united to salute late rock pioneers Chuck Berry and Fats Domino with a fiery tribute at the 2018 Grammy Awards. The blues-rock artist and Late Show bandleader formed a trio with drummer Joe Saylor, Batiste's Stay Human bandmate, honoring "two of the fathers of rock and roll that we lost last year." Batiste opened fronting a impassioned version of Domino's 1955 hit "Ain't That a Shame." As images of the late ...
Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump detailed the band's winding creative process behind cinematic new song "Church" in the latest installment of Rolling Stone's behind-the-scenes video series, Levels. The quartet were struggling to find a creative direction for their seventh LP, Mania, and they wound up delaying the release date from September 2017 to January. But they gained crucial confidence after figuring out the final arrangement of "Church." ...
Jim Rodford, a founding member of Argent and bassist for the Kinks and the Zombies, died Saturday at the age of 76. Rodford's cousin and longtime band mate Rod Argent confirmed Rodford's death on the Zombies' Facebook page, with Argent adding that Rodford died Saturday following "a fall on the stairs." "Jim was not only a magnificent bass player, but also from the first inextricably bound to the story of The Zombies. An enormous ...
Halsey fulfilled "the biggest of all dreams" when the singer served as musical guest on the Sam Rockwell-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live. The singer performed to cuts off her latest LP Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, first delivering the single "Bad at Love" before bringing out rapper (and Halsey's boyfriend) G-Eazy for their hit "Him & I," with the duo performing the first half of the song behind a steamed-up window on the Studio 8H stage. ...
Taylor Swift has released the new video for Reputation song, "End Game." The clip follows Swift hopping around the globe in international locales where she hits the beach; takes in fireworks; cruises around in a bus, car and motorcycle; dances with Future on a yacht and continues the party with Ed Sheeran. Directed by Joseph Kahn, the video finds the singer and her entourage in Tokyo, Miami and London. The song and video feature Future and ...