Justin Timberlake went from the Super Bowl halftime show to the top of the Billboard 200 as the singer's new album Man of the Woods opened at Number One with the best-selling week of 2018 so far. Man of the Woods opened with 293,000 total copies, including 242,000 traditional copies, in its first week on shelves, a period highlighted by Timberlake's hits-filled, Prince-honoring halftime spectacle at Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis. ...
On the eve of his 85th birthday, legendary record producer Quincy Jones covered a lot of controversial ground in a wide-ranging interview with New York magazine. The frank interview touched on lighter fare, like astrology (he's a Pisces) and dating Ivanka Trump, to why race relations and feminism are imperative movements right now. Jones gave many opinions about the music industry (namely, that it no longer exists), but ...
Primus and Mastodon will unite this summer for a massive U.S. tour. The co-headlining, 43-date trek launches May 6th in Morrison, Colorado and concludes July 7th in Phoenix. The joint trek promotes the bands' respective 2017 projects. Last year, Mastodon released their seventh LP, Emperor of Sand, and a follow-up EP, Cold Dark Place, featuring a new song, "Toe to Toes," and three leftover tracks from the sessions of 2014's Once More 'Round ...
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." ...