Kings of Leon Just Want Us To Have Fun It’s been nearly five years since Rapsody’s third album Eve, a 16-track love letter to some of the powerful Black women she admires. Through her musings on such women as Aaliyah, Afeni Shakur, Sojourner Truth, and Serena Williams, we got to know the American rapper through the back door. But...

Kings of Leon Just Want Us To Have Fun Kings of Leon – Can We Please Have Fun LoveTap/Capitol There’s nothing subtle about Kings of Leon’s pivot on their ninth LP, but subtlety has never done this band any good anyway. After two drearily self-serious albums that mistook solemnity for profundity, 2016’s WALLS and 2021’s When You See Yourself,...

New Syd Barrett Doc Creates A Personal, Technicolor Portrait Pink Floyd vocalist/guitarist David Gilmour will play his first U.S. shows since 2016 this fall on Oct. 29-30 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and Nov. 4-5 at New York’s Madison Square Garden. They will be preceded by six gigs each at Rome’s Circo Massimo and London’s Royal...

Watch Childish Gambino and Khalid Perform With Billie Eilish at L.A. Concert Finale Donald Glover has reactivated his Childish Gambino alter-ego for Atavista, a revised version of the album 3.15.20, which was originally released on that date. Atavista appeared online early this morning (May 13), augmented by two new songs and a video for...

5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Mike Mushok of Staind “Wow, they must really like four-wheelers here,” said Darren Griffith, as he drove his new blended-family up the drive of a phat manor for sale in rural Maryland.  “There’s like seven of them,” said Darren’s teenage son, Gunnar, counting the all-terrain vehicles lurking in the...

Vampire Weekend Detail First Album Since 2019 Vampire Weekend returned to NBC’s Saturday Night Live last night (May 11) for the first time since 2013, performing two songs from their new album, Only God Was Above Us. For “Gen-X Cops” and “Capricorn,” the trio of Ezra Koenig, Chris Baio and and Chris Tomson were augmented on lead guitar...