Prince, Warner Bros. Announce Partnership, ‘Purple Rain’ Reissue
By Kevin Rutherford A new partnership between Prince and Warner Bros. will yield previously unheard music, the pair announced today (April 18). The relationship, in addition to seeing unreleased music...
View ArticleListen: Prince’s Surprise New Single ‘The Breakdown’
Less than 24 hours after he announced his new partnership with Warner Bros. Records, Prince also revealed a new song. “The Breakdown” dropped late Friday night (April 18) and is now available for fans...
View ArticlePrince Says He Will Stop Using Dirty Words in His Music
By Shannon Carlin Prince may have once been known for songs like “Erotic City,” which made fair use of the F-word, but now he’s decided dirty words just aren’t for him. The Purple One revealed this in...
View ArticlePrince Has Another New Album In The Works Featuring Rita Ora, & a Song Based...
By Shannon Carlin Prince has been keeping himself busy out there in Paisley Park. The singer has already previewed a few songs off his new album, PLECTRUMELECTRUM, with his new band 3RDEYEGIRL. But...
View ArticlePrince Reveals Snippet of New Track ‘This Could Be Us,’ Inspired By a Prince...
By Shannon Carlin Prince seems to have given up on hating the internet. First, he joined Twitter, then Instagram, now he’s writing songs about memes that were inspired by him. Yesterday, Prince tweeted...
View ArticleWeird Al’s ‘Mandatory’ Interview: ‘Word Crimes,’ the ‘Tacky’ Video & Prince,...
Weird Al Yankovic has covered the gamut of popular musicians in his 35-year career, from parodying the Knack’s “My Sharona” as “My Bologna” in 1979 to new album Mandatory Fun, which pokes fun at...
View ArticleKesha Once Broke Into Prince’s House to Drop Off Her Album
By Courtney E. Smith Kesha wanted to give Prince her music — so much so that she broke into his house. The singer told a story on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last night (July 24) that proved how...
View ArticleListen: Prince Drops Two New Songs, ‘U Know’&‘Whitecaps’
While Prince fans eagerly await the release of two new albums on Sept. 30, the singer has shared two new songs: “U Know” and “Whitecaps.” Related: Two New Prince Albums Announced by 3rdeyegirl on ‘Good...
View ArticlePrince Releases New Song ‘Funknroll': Listen
Prince is getting ready to release his first solo album in four years, ART OFFICIAL AGE — along with the full-length debut album by his band 3rdEyeGirl, PLECTRUMELECTRUM — and today brings another look...
View ArticlePrince Announces Album Release Livestream Party
The notoriously aloof Prince will be doing something he’s never done before in his near 40-year career: livestreaming his album release party from Paisley Park. Tomorrow when Prince drops firs solo...
View ArticlePrince Coming to ‘Saturday Night Live’ as Musical Guest
To promote his pair of new albums, Prince will be taking the Saturday Night Live stage. Someone call Fred Armisen. Prince will act as the musical guest for the Nov. 1 episode of the long-running comedy...
View ArticlePrince to Perform for 8 Minutes Straight on ‘Saturday Night Live’
When Prince takes the stage at Studio 8H this weekend, he’ll be making history. The rocker will perform as the musical guest on this weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Chris Rock — and...
View Article‘SNL’ Brings Prince for Rollicking Four-Song Jam, Introduces Taylor Swift...
By Kevin Rutherford Saturday Night Live is known for breaking up each episode with a brief foray out of comedy and into the world of music, generally twice per show: once around midnight and again...
View ArticlePrince Took a Selfie Without a Phone Because He’s Prince
Prince has gifted the world with what appears to be his very first selfie — and, if you know Prince, you can guess that it’s not your standard selfie. The artist, who’s been notoriously late to the...
View ArticleSteve Albini Calls Prince a ‘Purple Dwarf’ Whose ‘Music is Poison’ in Keynote...
Today in the world of highly opinionated aging rockers, Steve Albini, famed audio engineer and Shellac frontman, has expressed his dislike for Prince. While serving as the keynote speaker at...
View ArticlePrince Decides He Doesn’t Want an Internet Presence Anymore
By Marissa G. Muller Two weeks after gifting us with his first-ever selfie, Prince has taken it back, along with deleting his social media accounts and removing his music from YouTube. The enigmatic...
View ArticlePrince Drops ‘ANOTHERLOVE’ Lyric Video: Watch
Prince, one of the Western canon’s great bards of tortured love, returns to his muse once again for “ANOTHERLOVE.” He’s shared a lyric video for the track, which was released earlier this year on his...
View ArticleThe Parent Trap: 7 Legendary Artists Who Played Coachella
By Brian Ives The news that rock legends AC/DC and Steely Dan would be among the artists headlining this year’s Coachella was met with such rage/annoyance/disbelief that you’d think that it was a...
View ArticlePrince Takes Us to ‘Marz’ in New Video
By Shannon Carlin Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. And Prince? Well, he’s from Marz. Related: Prince Drops ‘ANOTHERLOVE’ Lyric Video: Watch The Purple One, who was last seen shocking everyone...
View ArticleNeurotic City: 5 Times Prince Has Acted Ponderously Purple
Thanks to the bottomless treasure trove that is basic cable television, we got to relive the magic of Purple Rain recently. Sure, we could have dusted off our old VHS copy, but our VCR went to sleep...
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