Katniss Everdeen has inspired an entire generation of young women and girls. To mark the end of the franchise with “Mockingjay Part 2,” we’ve invited some MTV News readers to share their stories of being inspired by Katniss. Source: MTV Movie News
Hear Baroness' Aggressive, Dark New Song 'Shock Me'
Georgia alt-metal band Baroness have previewed another intoxicatingly tough new single from their forthcoming album Purple. The dark “Shock Me” follows up the album’s lead single, “Chlorine and Whine.” The new track moves more swiftly and aggressively than the sprawling “Chlorine and Whine.” “Good fortune never was shining on me the… Source: Music […]
Rivers Cuomo Plays Sleazy Preacher in Weezer's 'Thank God for Girls' Video
Weezer have followed up their gluttonous, cannoli-overloaded lyric video for new single “Thank God for Girls” with a proper music video that appropriately takes Weezer fans to church. In the Scantron-directed video, frontman Rivers Cuomo plays a sleazy evangelist who takes his congregation’s donations to a backroom poker game. After losing all their… Source: Music […]
Watch Adele Debut Soaring Ballad 'When We Were Young'
In a preview of her Sunday appearance on 60 Minutes, Adele’s song “When We Were Young” is played in a clip from an exclusive performance on the show. The singer’s live recording of the track takes place in the last half of the clip. Adele and Tobias Jesso Jr. co-wrote “When… Source: Music […]
Dixie Chicks Announce Summer 2016 U.S. Tour
The Dixie Chicks have revealed the dates for a 2016 tour that will take them all across the U.S. next summer. Following their previously announced European trek, the DCX MMXVI World Tour will kick off June 1st at the Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.The multi-award-winning trio will visit more… Source: Music News
Vision’s Big ‘Civil War’ Question: What Even Is Love?
Vision will become the latest android to struggle with the concept of love. Source: MTV Movie News
Meet Man Who Discovered Elvis in Essential New Sam Phillips Book
No single person “invented” rock & roll. But it’s hard to imagine how it could’ve happened without Sun Records visionary Sam Phillips. Peter Guralnick’s rigorously researched Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll tells the story of a Southern white businessman who enabled the careers of epochal artists, black… Source: Music News
Hollywood’s Top Editors Reveal Why Film’s Gender Problem Goes Way Beyond Directors
Two top female film editors open up about being a woman in Hollywood. Source: MTV Movie News
Ty Dolla $ign Talks 'New Black Punk,' Loving Babyface, Gritty 'Free TC' LP
Ty Dolla $ign emerged in 2010 as the writer and hook-smith on “Toot It and Boot It,” a gleeful track by the rapper YG. The song demonstrated Ty’s musical chops — he managed to transform a sample of the Association’s Sixties sunshine pop into modern G-Funk — and introduced the world… Source: Music News
On the Charts: Chris Stapleton's 'Traveller' Number One Again
Chris Stapleton continued to feel the sales afterglow of his huge, breakthrough CMA Awards night as the country singer’s Traveller spent its second consecutive week atop the Billboard 200. Released back in May, Traveller sold 124,000 total units in the first full week following its Album of the Year win at the CMAS on… Source: Music News
