Music

Jay-Z’s social justice arm Team Roc has slammed the arrest of a peaceful Charleston protester who, in a viral video, was singled out by police and taken into custody. In the video seen by over 29.5 million people on Twitter, Givionne “Gee” Jordan Jr. is peacefully protesting in Charleston, South …

Dirty Projectors have released a new song, “Inner World,” set to appear on their second of five planned 2020 EPs, Flight Tower, out June 26th via Domino. The song — which arrived with a video directed by bandleader Dave Longstreth — features some classic Dirty Projectors fare as a charming …

Alicia Keys appears in a new video campaign that calls for the officers involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor to be fired and arrested. Launched by the group Until Freedom, the campaign is centered around a question Keys asks at the start of the video: “Do you know what …

The protest movement that has erupted during the past few weeks in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death at the hands of former Minneapolis police offer Derek Chauvin is unlike anything America has seen since the Sixties. Sure, there have been numerous large-scale marches and political demonstrations since that time, …

Days after sharing a 2019 solo acoustic rendition of “Southern Man” and telling his fans that “it’s time for real change, new laws, new rules for policing,” Neil Young has written a lengthy opinion piece on his website titled “Hope” in which he elaborates on his feelings about this moment …

It’s been a long decade for Mickey Guyton, but nothing has ever felt quite as long as the past two weeks. As one of very few black voices in mainstream country music, Guyton has spent the days following George Floyd‘s death in Minneapolis carrying an unthinkable burden as she leads …

Loneliness has always had a place in pop music, from “Are you lonesome tonight?” to “My loneliness is killing me.”What else are songs, if not a way for artists to reach out across the vast stretches of space and time that separate them from their listeners? A great song can …

The Eagles, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Linda Ronstadt, and others appear in the new trailer for Laurel Canyon, a docuseries airing in two parts on Epix, May 31st and June 7th at 9 p.m. ET. Directed by Allison Ellwood — who recently worked on The Go-Go’s and the 2013 critically …

Beninese singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo performed a cover of Midnight Oil’s 1987 song “Beds Are Burning” for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert‘s #PlayAtHome music series. For their rendition, Kidjo and her socially distanced band offered up a decisively funky take on the synth-tinged Eighties rocker. While the song is about …

Thirty years ago this month, Madonna released one of the most fascinating records in her catalogue, I’m Breathless. Attached to her role as the nightclub singer/femme fatale in Warren Beatty’s 1990 film Dick Tracy, I’m Breathless wasn’t necessarily a proper solo album, but one of those “Music From and Inspired …