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Touch of Salt (and Pepper): Target Unveils Grateful Dead Shaker Set for Deadhead Chefs
Music fans may know Target best for the retailer’s selection of exclusive vinyl, but the site is also quickly becoming a home for some unique music merch. Case in point: these Grateful Dead salt and pepper shakers, which are on sale now for just $23. How to Watch the 2024 WNBA All-Star Game Online Without Cable An officially-licensed product, the shaker set is a fun and foodie take on the Dead’s iconic dancing bears, bringing a touch of nostalgia to the dinner table. Buy Now AT TARGET $22.95 Hand-sculpted from sturdy ceramic, the set includes a blue bear for salt and a...
Moffa Drops Debut Album ‘Playground,’ Inspired by His Childhood Memories
Moffa is ready to introduce himself to the world with his debut album. On Friday, the Puerto Rican star released his 10-track LP Playground, which features Manuel Turizo and Robi, and hears the musician looking back at his childhood memories with nostalgia.Ricardo Montaner Revisits His Biggest Hits 40 Years Later on New Album “This album represents facets of my life as an artist, reflecting on my childhood, while combining the musical influences I grew up with and experiences from my love life,” Moffa tells Rolling Stone. “Being able to release this debut project means continuing to raise the bar both...
Childish Gambino, Jimin, Madison Beer, and All the Songs You Need to Know This Week
Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Childish Gambino dropped his seventh, and possibly last, album, Jimin shares his second solo set, and Madison Beer serves up a pulsating dose of dance pop. Plus, new music from Lil Yachty, Rauw Alejandro, Joe Jonas, and more. Jimin of BTS Is Tapping Some Deep Beatles Love on His New 'Muse' Childish Gambino feat. Jorja Smith & Amaarae, “In the Night” (YouTube) Jimin, “Who” (YouTube) Madison Beer, “15 Minutes” (YouTube) Lil Yachty, “Let’s Get on Dey Ass” (YouTube) Rauw Alejandro, “Dejame Entrar” (YouTube) Glass...
Ricardo Montaner Revisits His Biggest Hits 40 Years Later on New Album
Ricardo Montaner is looking back at his storied career with a new perspective — and giving his classic ballads an update. On Friday, the musician dropped Ricardo Montaner 2 (Versión Montaner), on which he re-recorded and re-mastered some of his most notable songs, including “Tan Enamorados.”Big Sean Announces Album 'Better Me Than You' Following Leak “To be able to do my iconic songs with the original arrangements but with modern sounds was a one-of-a-kind experience,” he tells Rolling Stone. “Revisiting those tracks now was great because I recorded them with tranquility, knowing they were part of the foundations of my...
Jimin of BTS Is Tapping Some Deep Beatles Love on His New ‘Muse’
Jimin of BTS is turning heads worldwide with Muse, his ambitious and experimental new solo album. One of the tracks getting the most attention is the great single, “Smeraldo Garden Marching Band,” featuring South Korean rapper Loco. Jimin takes explicit inspiration from the Beatles 1967 psychedelic masterpiece, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, with a playfully experimental theme song for a fictional band, as horns toot away. The video is also a clever Sgt. Pepper homage. But the Beatles connection makes sense on a much deeper level. It’s a fitting reference point for an artist who’s on the kind...
Elon Musk Bet Big on a Self-Driving ‘Robotaxi.’ Can Tesla Actually Build One?
Back in April 2019, during a presentation on Tesla’s progress toward a fully autonomous driving system, Elon Musk made a startling prediction: “Next year for sure, we will have over a million robotaxis on the road,” he said.Musk Vows to Move X, SpaceX to Texas After California Passes Gender Law What the CEO meant was that Teslas sold with a “Full Self-Driving” option would, after an over-the-air software update, have this capability enabled, and owners could have their vehicle autonomously and safely drive them anywhere, without the need for human intervention. Even better, they’d be able to send it out...
Neil Young’s ‘On the Beach’ at 50: His Bummed-Out Masterpiece Reigns Supreme
Happy 50th anniversary to Neil Young’s On the Beach, an album that, to put it mildly, is not a very sunny one. Young himself called it one of the most depressing records he’s ever made — and that was after he wrote and recorded the famously funereal Tonight’s the Night. But that album could be joyful at times, like the groovy movie in “Speakin’ Out,” or the fried eggs and country ham in “Albuquerque.” You won’t find any breakfast delights on On the Beach, but you will find three songs with the word “blues” in the title. The good...
Meet the Costco Guys, the Father-Son Duo Behind the Song of the Summer
What’s the song of the summer? Is it “Espresso“? “Not Like Us“? “Hot to Go“? This writer would like to humbly submit another candidate: “We Bring the BOOM!” by A.J. and Big Justice, a Boca Raton, Florida-based father-and-son duo with flawlessly groomed eyebrows, heavy New Jersey accents, and a predilection for double-chocolate chunk cookies. What Is 'Moon Face'?: New TikTok Tutorials Offer Dubious Solutions With its lyrics, “We bring the BOOM / That’s what we do / We bring the BOOM / We bring the BOOM to you” over a beat reminiscent of Run DMC’s “It’s Tricky,” “We Bring the Boom”...
Big Sean Announces Album ‘Better Me Than You’ Following Leak
Skip the leaked version: Big Sean’s new album Better Me Than You is dropping on Aug. 9. On Friday, a day after a Kanye West fan allegedly leaked much of his album online, Big Sean announced the release of his LP, and dropped a new single, “Yes.”Mabel No Longer 'Second Guesses' Her 'Female Intuition' “The pressure of life (being a new Dad, being [an] artist that’s growing, being a human in development, etc) and embracing it all led me to a lot of clarity on what I needed to focus on to find a piece of happiness,” Sean wrote on...
Mabel No Longer ‘Second Guesses’ Her ‘Female Intuition’
Mabel is learning to trust her gut. On Friday, the British pop singer released her single “Female Intuition,” which captures the star learning to trust her decision-making in life and in her art.Joe Jonas Looks at Life 'From a Birds-Eye View' on Solo Single 'Work It Out' “It’s about trusting your instincts and letting your intuition be your guide,” she tells Rolling Stone. “I don’t second guess myself anymore, but it’s been a journey to get to this place, and I wanted to put that all into a track.” The single is also indicative of the energy she’s tapping into on...
We Went to Erykah Badu and Desa Potato Head’s Wellness Festival
“My name is Erykah Badu and I’m a cold motherfucker.”From Trucker Hats to Joggers, Target's Grateful Dead Drop Has You Covered From 'Dead' to Toe It’s 6:30 am on the rooftop of Desa Potato Head and a crowd of yogis, writers, singers, dancers, reiki healers, crystal experts, and at least two corporate lawyers sit cross-legged on plush yoga mats. Locals and tourists have gathered here for Merasa, a 7-day wellness festival co-curated by Grammy-Award winning singer, songwriter, and doula Erykah Badu. “I am amazing today. We’re going out and it’s going to be great.” Badu is leading the group through a sunrise...
From Shaolin to Symphonies: RZA Announces New Orchestral LP ‘A Ballet Through Mud’
RZA will journey from Staten Island to symphony halls with the Wu-Tang Clan mastermind’s upcoming orchestral album, A Ballet Through Mud.Martin Shkreli Accused of Copying and Sharing One-Of-a-Kind Wu-Tang Album in New Lawsuit The producer rediscovered the project during the pandemic when he revisited lyrical songbooks he penned as a teenager in “Shaolin.” RZA then transformed those early works into a ballet that tells a coming-of-age story about love and growth. “I have been composing my whole life, although I didn’t know initially that was what I was doing. The inspiration for A Ballet Through Mud comes from my earliest creative output...
Hear Gillian Welch Sing Lead on First New Song in 13 Years
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are back with Woodland, the first album of songs written by the duo in seven years. The 10-track album was recorded entirely at the East Nashville studio that bears its name, which the duo has owned for more than two decades. Tyler Childers and Dan Auerbach Will Perform for John Anderson at the Grand Ole Opry “Woodland is at the heart of everything we do, and has been for the last twenty some years,” Welch and Rawlings said. “The past four years were spent almost entirely within its walls, bringing it back to life after...
Watch Post Malone Get Ultra-Sentimental on New Country Song About His Daughter, ‘Yours’
Country songs about dads watching their daughters getting married and — as Hank Hill once put it — “feeling emotions” constitute a mini-genre at this point, from Heartland’s “I Loved Her First” to Alan Jackson’s “You’ll Always Be My Baby.” Country newcomer Post Malone became the latest contributor to that micro-canon this week, debuting “Yours,” a track from his new album F-1 Trillion, which drops Aug. 16, at his Bud Light-sponsored performance at Nashville’s Marathon Music Works Tuesday night.Watch Post Malone, Blake Shelton Perform 'Pour Me a Drink' at Nashville Concert In his introduction, Malone acknowledged he may be getting ahead of...
AOC Slams Effort to Oust Biden in Lengthy Livestream
The Republican National Convention ended with a lengthy, divisive, and exhausting speech from Donald Trump — now the official GOP 2024 nominee. For Democrats, the dawn brings a reminder that questions around their own presumptive candidate are far from settled. Biden Should Resign the Presidency to Save His Legacy Shortly after the former president’s speech ended, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) took to Instagram Live for more than an hour to discuss her reasoning for continuing to stand behind President Joe Biden. As rumors continue to swirl regarding whethert the president will exit the race amid concerns about his mental and physical...
Smashing Pumpkins Reveal New Album ‘Aghori Mhori Mei’ Out in Two Weeks
Just over a year after the Smashing Pumpkins released their triple-album Atum, Billy Corgan and company are back with another new LP titled Aghori Mhori Mei, arriving in two weeks’ time on August 2.Smashing Pumpkins Unveil New Bourbon, Cut With Tea From Billy Corgan's Emporium Soon after the release of the final installment of Atum, the prolific Corgan returned to the studio to begin work on the band’s next album while employing a recording strategy that the Pumpkins relied on in the early Nineties. “In the writing of this new album I became intrigued with the well-worn axiom, ‘you can’t go...
‘Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition’ Is a Mini-Game Collection for Masochists
In an industry rife with remakes, remasters, and re-releases, few companies have mastered the art of repacking leftovers for a nostalgia-driven appetite than Nintendo. With games like 1985’s NES classic Super Mario Bros. reissued dozens of times over four decades, even the youngest players are familiar with the look, feel, and basic gameplay of Nintendo’s classics.How the Kendrick-Drake Beef Became a Viral Video Game With a legacy like that, Nintendo doesn’t really need to try hard to sell its back catalog, and with its latest collection, Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition, it most certainly isn’t. Instead, the Japanese developer is...
Lady Gaga Returns to the Studio for ‘LG7’: ‘Happy as Ever Making Music’
Lady Gaga is giving her Little Monsters a small — but very exciting — update on the status of the long-awaited LG7. The singer posted a series of photos from inside the recording studio on Thursday, assuring fans that new music is officially underway. Katy Perry's 'Woman's World' and the End of 2010s Pop “Just me in the studio—happy as ever making music,” she wrote. “Feel so grateful, heart is peaceful. It’s like meditation. I can’t wait for you to hear what I’m working on.” In the photos, Gaga is seen standing and presumably singing behind a microphone. In another shot,...
Jane Fonda Remembers ‘Kind, Wry, and Very Funny’ Bob Newhart: ‘Just Like on Screen’
Jane Fonda and Bob Newhart’s paths didn’t cross much over the many decades of their respective careers — but in the last eight years, they became neighbors and friends, as Fonda wrote in an Instagram tribute to Newhart, who died Thursday at age 94. “He was just like on the screen: understated, kind, wry, and very funny,” Fonda wrote on Instagram. “As I’m the oldest one around here these days, Bob liked to have me come over to reminisce with him about the old timers, Red Skelton, Ed Sullivan, my dad. We’d have a beer and I’d leave when one...
Cheng Pei Pei, ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ Actress, Dead at 78
Cheng Pei Pei, the pioneering “Queen of Martial Arts” who starred in dozens of wuxia films in Hong Kong before reaching a global audience with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, has died at the age of 78. Why the 'Newhart' Finale is the Perfect Example of Bob Newhart's Comic Genius Cheng’s family revealed the actress died Wednesday in San Francisco after she was first diagnosed with atypical Parkinsonian disorder, which she battled privately since 2019. “Our mom Cheng Pei Pei wanted to be remembered for who she was: the legendary ‘Queen of Martial Arts,’” the family said in a statement (via...
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