Following close on the heels of the release of his debut album In the Lonely Hour Sam Smith stoked the fires while breaking hearts this weekend with a cover of Whitney Houston’s 1985 hit “How Will I know” Sam Smith Breaks Down 10 Great R&B Voices Smith takes the tempo way down… Source
The music component of Dave Chappelle’s nine-night stand at Radio City Music Hall doesn’t officially start until next week when the comedian will be joined by a roster of artists including Nas the Roots and Janelle Monáe But attendees of Friday night’s show were in for a treat as Kanye… Source
The Shins have another song that could “change your life” as Natalie Portman proclaimed of their tune “New Slang” in the 2004 movie Garden State And like that film it just happens to appear in another Zach Braff movie The shimmery lilting “So Now What” which finds frontman James Mercer… Source
Garth Brooks last topped the US country chart with a new boxed set late in 2013 and hasn’t really been heard from on these shores much lately Across the pond however he debuts this week at the top of the Irish Album Chart with a compilation originally released in 2007… Source
The company that produced the Michael Jackson “performance” at the Billboard Music Awards this year has filed a $10 million countersuit against Hologram USA which had preemptively sued it prior to the broadcast Although Hologram USA holds the patent on the technology behind the Tupac Shakur hologram that appeared at… Source
Six years after her last solo album and seven years since the dissolution of her former band Rilo Kiley Jenny Lewis is returning with The Voyager a collection of West Coast pop reminiscent of her earlier work that’s due out July 29th Not long after announcing its completion Lewis took Rolling… Source
Funnyman Ray Stevens is perhaps best known for bouncing between novelty hits (“The Streak”) and “straight” tunes (“Everything Is Beautiful”) both of which topped the pop survey in the Seventies He also recorded a series of comic country tunes (including “Would Jesus Wear a Rolex” and “Mississippi Squirrel Revival”) throughout… Source
When revered hip-hop producer J Dilla passed away from complications from lupus in 2006 he left behind not only an expansive catalog of released productions but a trove of beats that have never been heard Dilla’s mom Maureen “Ma Dukes” Yancey has helped to oversee her son’s posthumous legacy and… Source
Schoolboy Q was temporarily detained – but not arrested – by Denver police following a Thursday night shooting that injured three people The Denver Post reports The incident took place in the parking lot of the Red Rocks Ampitheatre in Morrison Colorado where a concert featuring Schoolboy Nas and Flying Lotus had… Source
About a month ago Brooklyn rapper Mr Muthafuckin’ eXquire released a song online about signing with a major record label and then getting dropped having accomplished exactly nothing The song was called “I Ain’t Even Fuck Rihanna” and the key line was “My stupid ass sold his soul/and didn’t even… Source
