Paul and Earl Hudson were born to a Jamaican mother and an American father who worked as a mechanic for the U.S. Air Force, and they moved all over the country before settling down in Washington, D.C. In 1976, the Hudson brothers formed a jazz fusion band called Mind Power, Paul on vocals and Earl…
Jazz pianist Gerald Clayton has a new album. We have a few questions. After a couple of decades as one of his field’s most inventive, talented and in-demand players, he wanted to try something different. So he made Ones & Twos with the idea that listeners could play sides one and two simultaneously. Each of…
As tipped here in April, Nas and DJ Premier have re-teamed for the collaborative album Light-Years, which will be released Dec. 12 on the former’s Mass Appeal label. The project is part of the Legend Has It… series, which has brought forth new albums this year from fellow rap legends Slick Rick, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah,…
FKA twigs, Sturgill Simpson and Will Oldham are acting in the upcoming film The Lonely Woman, which stars Chloë Sevigny and will serve as the first feature directed by electronic duo Boy Harsher (Jae Matthews and Augustus Muller). Per Deadline, the movie has wrapped filming in upstate New York and will premiere sometime next year….
When I share photos with guests who join my Airbnb Experience, “The Sunset Strip: Stories With a Music Journalist,” the first one I show is a shot of me with Dizzy Reed outside the Whisky in 1989. It was taken a few months before Reed joined Guns N’ Roses as their keyboard player, a role…
If the name of the band Man/Woman/Chainsaw sounds familiar, that’s because its members took inspiration from Carol J. Clover’s 1992 book, Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film, which explores the “final girl” horror film trope. “Completely stolen,” says Emmie-Mae Avery (vocals, keys, synths), referring to the band’s name during a…
If you love singing in the car or shower, Realize Music: Sing is about to blow your mind. The stunning new virtual reality app, which launches this week via Meta Quest, invites users to belt out their favorite songs in transcendent, interactive dreamscapes – without the anxiety that an audience might elicit. With over one…
Fresh off playing a friendly game of soccer with his labelmates like Rauw Alejandro the night before the Latin Grammys, Trueno casually strolls into a hotel room with yerba mate, a popular herbal drink from his native Argentina, in hand. Unphased by the push and pull of the industry around him, the rapper sees the…
Guns N’ Roses will be back in action with a 2026 worldwide stadium tour, which kicks off March 28 in Monterrey, Mexico, and will run through Sept. 19 in Atlanta. The band’s Sept. 5 appearance at the Rose Bowl outside Los Angeles will be its first show there since 1992. Other highlights of the itinerary….
After 41 shows and a box office gross believed to be in the neighborhood of half a billion dollars, Oasis wrapped their first tour in 16 years last night (Nov. 23) in São Paulo, Brazil. The show did not vary from the 23-song set list that remained identical throughout the tour, but it did feature…
