In 2017, Kenneth Coby played a bad show and decided to quit music. As Soundz, he had co-written and co-produced hit singles for Rae Sremmurd, Justin Bieber, and Trey Songz. But like many songwriters, Coby harbored dreams of being a solo artist, and he was on the road opening for …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. If you play your guitar or bass frequently, you’ll understand the annoyance of having to take it out of its case each time you want to play. You …
Read More »Kiss' Paul Stanley Releases Debut Video With Soul Station Live Band
Kiss co-founder and frontman Paul Stanley has devoted the last few years to his new project, Soul Station, a 17-piece ensemble tribute group that performs R&B and soul classics. For most of its existence, Soul Station has been a live music project, performing their catalog at smaller venues and clubs. …
Read More »Lady Gaga, Blackpink Share Confectionary Club Track 'Sour Candy'
The long-anticipated collaboration between Lady Gaga and mega-popular K-pop group Blackpink is finally here. “Sour Candy,” from Gaga’s upcoming albumChromatica, dropped on Thursday morning, providing a sugar-sweet club track for all our at-home parties. “I’m sour candy, so sweet then I get a little angry,” Jennie and Lisa of Blackpink …
Read More »Demi Lovato Teams Up With Trevor Project for Pride 2020 Campaign
Demi Lovato has lent her voice to a new video from the Trevor Project for its 2020 Pride campaign, Pride Everywhere. Per a statement, Pride Everywhere seeks to address LGBTQ young people who are “isolated from affirming communities and unable to celebrate Pride in the way that they normally would.” …
Read More »Gorillaz Celebrate 20-Year Visual History With Expansive 'Almanac' Book
More than 20 years after Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett first conceived of Gorillaz, the visual history of the cartoon band will be explored in an expansive “almanac” due out this October. The Gorillaz Almanac, published by Z2 Comics, will feature 120-plus full-color pages featuring Hewlett’s artwork for the band. …
Read More »Trump Economic Adviser Reduces Workers to 'Human Capital Stock'
While discussing whether the U.S. economy might recover this fall after the coronavirus downturn, a Trump economic adviser referred to the American worker as “human capital stock.” Senior White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett made the wildly insensitive remark, first flagged by Aaron Rupar on Twitter, on Sunday after CNN’s …
Read More »The 1975 Would Like to Invent the Future
Matty Healy knows exactly how and why he’s just been canceled. It’s Tuesday afternoon, about an hour after Notes on a Conditional Form, the sprawling, undefinable fourth album from his band, the 1975, leaked online in full. Some of the band’s most hardcore fans — people who couldn’t wait the …
Read More »The 1975's 'Notes on a Conditional Form' Is a Meandering Search for Meaning
Learning to enjoy the 1975 has always required a certain suspension of disbelief. If you can believe that a boy-band-pretty synth-pop quartet from Manchester with a poodle-haired lead singer can create nuanced, voice-of-a-generation anthems hidden inside layers upon layers of irony and bombast, then consider yourself a fan. Matty Healy, …
Read More »Liberty High Says Goodbye in '13 Reasons Why' Final Season Trailer
13 Reasons Why is coming to a close, with the Liberty High students preparing for graduation and readying themselves for goodbye. In the trailer for the show’s final season, premiering June 5th on Netflix, a group of friends from the senior class led by Clay Jensen (Dylan Minnette) come to …
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