Before Spencer Lee got his big break as the frontman of his eponymous band, signing with superstar manager Scooter Braun, he was homeless. Sleeping on a blown up mattress in the back of his car, Lee wrote the lyrics to his song “River Water,” when he was living on the streets of LA. “Fuck being […]
Cara Delevingne brings awareness to homelessness in The Spencer Lee Band’s new music video for their song “River Water,” released Wednesday. The video stars Delevingne, 26, as a homeless drug addict fighting her inner-demons on the streets and struggling to reclaim her life. “River Water” is extremely personal for the band’s frontman Spencer Lee, who wrote […]
The Spencer Lee Band is painting a vivid picture of frontman Spencer Lee’s past days of living on the streets of Los Angeles in their new music video for their single “River Water,” where his experience is portrayed by model-actress Cara Delevingne. “I was homeless in these L.A. streets when I wrote ‘River Water,’” he […]
After co-writing songs for the likes of Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Post Malone, DNCE and others, Freddy Wexler is introducing the world to another artist — Jackson Penn. Who also happens to be Wexler himself. Penn — whose new single “Babylon” is premiering exclusively below via its video — is the artist […]
Spencer Lee has a big voice out of little Fort Scott, Kansas, and the major backing that will get it heard. We spoke on the phone last week — now 25, he was raised in a small town and literally scouted as a teen: after someone saw him perform at a local talent show, they called up […]
Jackson Penn is the pen name for songwriter Freddy Wexler, one of pop’s true hidden talents. Freddy has co-written songs for, Selena Gomez, Lil Wayne, Wyclef Jean, Kanye West, Demi Lovato, Martin Garrix, Steve Aoki and more, a dexterous but instantly recognisable voice. Working on solo material as Jackson Penn, he refuses to be hemmed in, with […]
L.A.’s Jackson Penn, aka successful songwriter/producer Freddy Wexler, manages to capture a pretty magical love story in the video for his song “Streetlights on Mars.” It features the singer and his real life wife Olivia on a cozy L.A. date featuring some weed, burgers, and — plot twist — a stolen car. The video, which […]
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Eric Wortham is a piano virtuoso of the highest order, skilled in both classical and jazz playing. Yet he feels no musical limitations performing pure pop on tour with Adele. Continue on yamahaentertainmentgroup.com
Chance the Rapper’s Coloring Book is one of the strongest rap albums released this year, an uplifting mix of spiritual and grounded that even an atheist can catch the Spirit to. Continue on Pitchfork
Kanye West has partnered with fashion house Balmain for the video for “Wolves,” a track off the rapper’s forever project, The Life of Pablo. Unlike West’s controversial “Famous” video, which starred waxy models of Taylor Swift, Donald Trump and others… Continue on Rolling Stone
On her most political album to date, Alicia Keys sings from the perspective of a black everywoman with undiminished optimism. Her subjects on Here are many: the angry, struggling woman at the center of the heartbreaking “Illusion of Bliss,”… Continue on Rolling Stone
Only a week after releasing “3 Wayz,” Ty Dolla $ign is letting out yet another song from his upcoming album Campaign. On Thursday night, he unleashed the ballad “Stealing.” This is the fifth song Ty has put out from Campaign. Continue on Complex
As a boy, Eric Wortham II – the Philadelphia pianist who has spent 2016 touring the world in Adele’s backing band – went to a church convention in Baltimore. Singing in the choir, he happened to be standing with a view of an organ player who was working the keys and pedals of a Hammond […]
Before heading out on tour, country superstar Dierks Bentley rocks the TODAY show plaza with his performance of “Somewhere on a Beach,” the lead single from his upcoming eighth studio album, “Black.” Continue on TODAY
Once again, we talked to 10 of the hottest artists who are climbing the charts, breaking the Internet or just dominating our office stereos. This month: New Orleans rapper Young Greatness, Scandinavian EDM star Zara Larsson, Brooklyn alterna-punks Big Ups, Kendrick Lamar collaborator Terrace Martin, Justin Bieber tour opener Moxie Raia and more. Continue On Rolling […]
I’ve been waiting for Moxie Raia, who in recent months has captivated both LA’s art kids and its industry insiders, outside of her Downtown LA loft for about 15 minutes—long enough to break a sweat in the indiscriminate late winter sunshine, and long enough to make me nervous. A few days earlier, I’d been waiting in […]
Dierks Bentley gave the audience at Ellen a break from the cold, taking them to the coast with his new single {Somewhere on a Beach” on Tuesday (Jan. 19). The artist debuted the new song from his upcoming 8th studio record, Black, bringing his signature swagger to the laid-back tune telling off an ex… Continue […]
In Dierks Bentley’s 2014 Number One hit “Drunk on a Plane,” the song’s central character takes his pre-paid honeymoon vacation alone after his fiancée dumps him and goes wild above the clouds. It was one of the few uptempo, party-friendly spots on the somber Riser album, and even it was haunted by the specter of […]
Witnessing Selena Gomez as she grows up from Disney tween to adult pop star has certainly been a trip. Honored as Billboard‘s Chart Topper for 2015 at Women in Music — airing Friday night (Dec. 18) at 8 p.m. on Lifetime — below is a list of Gomez’s 10 biggest songs, based on the Billboard Hot 100 […]
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