“We’re the Highwomen, sing a story still untold,” sang Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, Amanda Shires and Natalie Hemby at their first-ever performance as the Highwomen Friday evening at the Newport Folk Festival. The supergroup was also backed by a band that included Jason Isbell and the Hanseroth Twins during the hourlong set. “This is our first show y’all, and we’re fucking terrified,” Carlile told the crowd early on. But the band’s debut ...
Madonna has unveiled her new video for “Dark Ballet.” It’s the fifth and final preview that will be released from her forthcoming Madame X, due June 14th. The cinematic clip stars Mykki Blanco, who portrays Joan of Arc. In the visually arresting Emmanuel Adjei-directed video, Mykki Blanco is seen bravely facing adversity from ...
Everyone’s a musician nowadays — and every tech company is also a music company, it seems. This week alone, two separate news items hinted at where strong winds are blowing for the music industry: first, a paid streaming service created by the owner of TikTok, and second, a new feature within Snapchat that may offer music in users’ posts. On Monday, Bloomberg reported that ByteDate, the Chinese parent company of the video-app-slash-meme-wonderland ...
On 2016’s Santana IV, Carlos Santana brought back most of the surviving musicians who made 1971’s Santana III. On his new album Africa Speaks, (out June 7th) the guitarist went in a wildly different direction, recording with an eight piece band – including vocals of Afro-Latin singer Buika and Santana’s wife Cindy Blackman on drums – with Rick Rubin over ten days at Rubin’s Shangri La Studios in Malibu. “It feels like this ...
In a new video, Julia Jacklin performs a stunning, stripped-down version of “Comfort” alone in her dressing room. The tenth and final track from her new album Crushing, the clip was captured last fall while Jacklin was on tour with First Aid Kit. more...
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