Prince Estate to Release Rare ‘Welcome 2 America’ Album, Featuring Bob Dylan and Janet Jackson Covers

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAfter dropping a brief video on Monday sporting her new blonde look, Billie Eilish apparently has announced that she will release her second full-length album, titled “Happier Than Ever,” on July 30.The news was not officially announced on Tuesday but billboards began appearing in various cities.

Another must-see pop culture documentary is on its way. The team behind “Framing Britney Spears” is working on another film about Janet Jackson’s infamous 2004 Super Bowl performance with Justin Timberlake, Us Weekly can confirm.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorEven in the context of the Who’s odd catalog, ”The Who Sell Out” is an oddity.

Queen Elizabeth II is ringing in her 95th birthday on a somber note. On Wednesday, the Royal Family account shared details of how the reigning British monarch is spending her milestone birthday. «This year The Queen remains at Windsor Castle during a period of Royal Mourning following the death of The Duke of Edinburgh,» the account shared of Her Royal Highness. Today is The Queen’s 95th birthday.

Bob Dylan biographies have become indirectly embroiled in a row about whose storytelling is better.Howard Sounes, who wrote the 2001 bestseller Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan, has responded to Clinton Heylin’s insults in The Double Life Of Bob Dylan Vol 1 1941-1966: A Restless, Hungry Feeling.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSongwriters of North America (SONA) will launch its first ever SONA Warrior Awards on May 23, with legendary songwriter Paul Williams as the inaugural honoree.The virtual event will feature tributes and performances dedicated to Williams.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe lines that divide tribute from parody or pastiche are very fine ones, and the concepts are hardly mutually exclusive — especially in the music world.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJust days after DMX died, a new song from the Epix series “Godfather of Harlem” has been released, featuring the late rapper with his longtime friend Swizz Beatz and French Montana.

Low have shared their take on Bob Dylan‘s ‘Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door’, recorded to mark Dylan’s 80th birthday next month.You can hear Low’s beautiful cover below, which is being released as part of Uncut magazine’s new ‘Dylan Revisited’ compilation.‘Dylan Revisited’ also features covers by the likes of Flaming Lips, Courtney Marie Andrews, Weyes Blood and Richard Thompson, and is included with the latest issue of Uncut which you can purchase here.“Being asked to cover a Dylan song is quite

Sir Paul McCartney revealed that it was Bob Dylan who first introduced The Beatles to weed in the 1960s. The legendary singer, 78, claimed to Uncut magazine that bandmate Ringo Starr thought the "ceiling was moving." "It was at the Delmonico Hotel on Park Avenue and 59th in New York City in August, 1964.

Paul McCartney has shared a story about the first time that The Beatles got stoned, with a little help from Bob Dylan.Macca was speaking as range of artists from throughout the ages paying tribute to Dylan to mark his 80th birthday for Uncut‘s June issue – which is out today.

Bob Dylan on ‘Blonde On Blonde’ has gone up for auction.Dylan used the 1965 Fender Electric XII instrument during sessions for his seventh studio album, which was released in 1966.The piece of music history – valued at $1million (£725,115) by Heritage Auction Appraisal Services – has gone under the hammer through Gotta Have Rock And Roll, an online auction house specialising in authentic music and pop culture memorabilia.There is a minimum bid of $215,000 (£156,000), with the auction due to last

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAfter an NFT fundraiser for independent venues raised more than $200,000 last week, Goldflyer and the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) have announced the second round.Top NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway has joined the effort and announced a follow-up drop this Friday (April 16) at 1:30 p.m.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorAs the follow-up to David Bowie’s first hit “Space Oddity,” the album known as “The Man Who Sold the World” is itself an oddity in the David Bowie canon.

The Royal Family continues to mourn Prince Philip.

Flaming Lips, Courtney Marie Andrews, Low, Weyes Blood and Richard Thompson are among the names to have contributed bespoke covers to a new album celebrating the life and work of Bob Dylan.With the icon set to celebrate his 80th birthday on May 24, Uncut‘s June issue comes with ‘Dylan Revisited’ – a covermount CD made up of 14 cover versions of choice cuts from Dylan’s songbook recorded exclusively for Uncut, as well as a previously unreleased track from the man himself.“Being asked to cover a

Justin Timberlake probably could have done just fine without his manager wading into his business like this…

Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor“Fire in Little Africa,” an album of original material, written and recorded by a collective of Oklahoma hip-hop artists to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, will be released on May 28 by Motown Records/Black Forum in partnership with Tulsa’s Bob Dylan Center and Woody Guthrie Center.According to the announcement, the 21-track album “gets to the truth of what happened on May 31 and June 1, 1921 when a white mob descended on the streets of