Aug 25, 2023 By Mark Redfern

A new Super Deluxe reissue of Prince’s 1991 album, Diamonds and Pearls, has been announced and two of its previously unreleased bonus tracks have been shared: unheard song “Alice Through the Looking Glass” and “Insatiable (Early Mix – Full Version).” The reissue features 47 previously unreleased tracks and two hours of live concert footage. More

Jul 07, 2023 By Kat Ramkumar

NPG records, in association with rock star Prince’s Paisley Park, have shared two previously unreleased songs, “All A Share Together Now” and “7 (E Flat Version),” from the Prince Vault. More

Jul 22, 2021 By Mark Redfern

A previously unreleased Prince album from 2010, Welcome 2 America, is set for release next Friday (July 30) via Legacy. Now another song from it, “Hot Summer,” has been shared. The Prince Estate has also announced a new season of their podcast. More

Jun 04, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Emma Goad)

Welcome to the 21st Songs of the Week of 2021. We figured it would be a quiet week for new songs, with Monday being a holiday here in America, but we were wrong. More

Jun 03, 2021 By Mark Redfern

A previously unreleased Prince album from 2010, Welcome 2 America, is set for release on July 30 via Legacy. Now another song from it, “Born 2 Die,” has been shared. More

Apr 09, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone and Caleb Campbell)

Welcome to the 13th Songs of the Week of 2021. Today we lost two giants of completely different worlds: Prince Phillip (married to Queen Elizabeth II) died at age 99, only two months before his 100th birthday, and influential rapper DMX lost his life at age 50 due to an apparent drug overdose. More

Apr 08, 2021 By Joey Arnone

A previously unreleased Prince album from 2010, Welcome 2 America, has been announced, and is set for release on July 30 via Legacy. The album’s title track has been shared as well. More

Sep 17, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

The Prince Estate is putting out an extensive reissue of the late icon’s 1987 album Sign O’ The Times on September 25 in partnership with Warner Records. Now they have shared another one of its bonus tracks, “I Need a Man,” a previously unreleased song. More

Aug 06, 2020 By Samantha Small

The Prince Estate has been gifting the world with previously unreleased tracks from the recently deceased pop legend. First we heard “Witness 4 The Prosecution (Version 1)” and “I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man (1979 Version).” Now, we have the gorgeous “Cosmic Day.” All these tracks will also be on the expanded reissue of Prince’s iconic Sign O’ The Times record due out September 25 in partnership with Warner Records. More

Apr 21, 2020 By Lily Guthrie

School of Language, the pseudonym of Field Music’s David Brewis for his solo musical endeavors, has released a new five-song EP inspired by the music of Prince. It’s entitled I Could Have Loved U Better and is available on Bandcamp for pay-what-you-like pricing, to commemorate the fourth anniversary of Prince’s passing. More

Apr 01, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Sexy is subjective. What someone finds sexy can depend on their gender, sexual orientation, and personal tastes. And yet we have tried incredibly hard, and I mean really, really hard, to come up with the undisputed sexiest album covers of all time. Here are the 18 sexiest. More

Mar 09, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Coldplay released a new album, Everyday Life, last year via Parlophone/Atlantic. Now they have stopped by NPR Music to perform five songs as part of their Tiny Desk Concert series, including a cover of Prince’s “1999.” They were joined by a nine-person choir. More

Nov 18, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Last week Amazon Music released the audio of a session of Beck performing at Prince’s iconic Paisley Park studios outside of Minneapolis where Beck and his band did a medley of Prince classics (“Raspberry Beret,” “When Doves Cry,” “Kiss,” and “1999”). Now the full video for the Prince medley has been shared. More

Nov 11, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beck has done a session for Amazon Music at Prince’s iconic Paisley Park studios outside of Minneapolis where Beck and his band do a medley of Prince classics (“Raspberry Beret,” “When Doves Cry,” “Kiss,” and “1999”), as well as performing Beck’s own songs “Where It’s At” and “Up All Night.” More

Nov 08, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Prince‘s iconic 1982 album, 1999, is getting the deluxe reissue treatment on November 29 via Warner Records and now one of its bonus tracks has been shared, “Don’t Let Him Fool Ya,” a rarity that’s never before been officially released. More

Oct 18, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Prince‘s self-titled second album turns 40 tomorrow, it was released on October 19, 1979. In honor of that anniversary, the Prince Estate and Warner Records have shared his previously unreleased demo for the album’s “Feel For You,” recorded earlier that year. More

Apr 25, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

A new posthumous Prince album has been announced, Originals, which collects his demos of songs he eventually gave to other artists. Almost all of the 15 tracks are previously unreleased and it includes Prince’s original versions of such iconic songs as “The Glamorous Life” and “Nothing Compares 2 U.” More

Feb 28, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The full list of 2019 Record Store Day releases has been revealed. Record Store Day goes down on Saturday, April 13 and just in case you don’t already know, the basic idea is to get music fans out to their local independent record store, with the bait being a slew of exclusive limited edition releases. More

Dec 20, 2018 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to part 9 of our Holiday Gift Guide 2018, which centers on music box sets and reissues, some on CD and some on vinyl. We’re splitting this section into two parts, as we were sent quite a few releases to include in it. More

Sep 21, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

When Prince passed away in 2016 he left behind a huge vault filled with unreleased material and so we can probably expect new albums from him for years to come. The new album Piano & A Microphone 1983, which came out today on Warner Bros., is culled from a previously unheard home studio cassette recorded in 1983 at Prince’s Kiowa Trail home studio in Chanhassen, MN and just features Prince singing and playing piano. More

Sep 13, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

A never before heard Prince song, “Why the Butterflies,” has been shared. When Prince passed away in 2016 he left behind a huge vault filled with unreleased material and so we can probably expect new albums from him for years to come. More

Sep 07, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Last week’s Songs of the Week was sparse, with only a Top 8 (and two of those songs were from the same artist), probably due to it building up a three-day weekend. There wasn’t much to write about at the start of this week, due to the Labor Day holiday on Monday, but labels, bands, and publicists more than made up for it with plenty of new songs the rest of the week. More

Sep 06, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

When Prince passed away in 2016 he left behind a huge vault filled with unreleased material and so we can probably expect new albums from him for years to come. More

Jun 08, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

This was a strong week for new tracks, so much so that we almost expanded this week’s Songs of the Week list to a Top 13. Instead we decided to include three honorable mentions. The full list includes two legendary artists who we will soon be getting previously unreleased posthumous albums from. More

Jun 07, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

When Prince passed away in 2016 he left behind a huge vault filled with unreleased material and so we can probably expect new albums from him for years to come. Today, on what would have been Prince’s 60th birthday, his estate has announced a new album, Piano & A Microphone 1983, which is due out on Warner Bros. on September 21. More

Apr 19, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Prince, who passed away in 2016, wrote “Nothing Compares 2 U” for his side band The Family, but it became a hit for Sinéad O’Connor in 1990. Now the Prince estate has shared his original version of the song, recorded in 1984. More

Sep 14, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

British trio London Grammar released their sophomore album, Truth Is a Beautiful Thing, back in June via Metal & Dust/Columbia. Now they have stopped by BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, where they performed Truth Is a Beautiful Thing cut “Non Believer.” But more note-worthy is their cover of the Prince classic “Purple Rain.” More

Aug 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

My Morning Jacket have announced three shows at the end of the year leading up to New Year’s Eve. They go down December 29, 30, and 31 at the 1stBank Center in Broomfield, CO and each will feature a different special guest. More

Jun 23, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Here we highlight six albums due out today that we feel are most worth hearing. We have also included Amazon links for each album. If you click through those links and buy the album (or anything else on Amazon once you’ve clicked through) then Amazon rewards us with a sales percentage. More

Jun 16, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Prince passed away at his home last year. It was previously announced that a reissue of his classic 1984 album Purple Rain is due out June 23 via NPG and Warner Bros. and a previously unreleased song, “Electric Intercourse,” was shared, which was followed by the previously unreleased “Our Destiny / Roadhouse Garden” (which are two separate songs that were often performed together live). More

May 12, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Prince passed away at his home last year. It was previously announced that a reissue of his classic 1984 album Purple Rain is due out June 23 via NPG and Warner Bros. and a previously unreleased song, “Electric Intercourse,” was shared. Now here’s the previously unreleased “Our Destiny / Roadhouse Garden.” They are two separate songs that were often performed together live. More

Apr 28, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Prince passed away at his home just over a year ago. It was previously announced that a reissue of his classic 1984 album Purple Rain was on the way and now the full details of that reissue have been announced and a previously unreleased song, “Electric Intercourse,” has been shared to streaming sites. More

Apr 18, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Prince passed away at his home almost exactly a year ago. The music legend left a vault at his Paisley Park estate that is said to contain enough unreleased music to release a new Prince album every year for the next 100 years. More

Jan 25, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Lambchop released their new album, FLOTUS, in 2016 via Merge. FLOTUS stands for “For Love Often Turns Us Still” and it’s the follow-up to 2012’s Mr. M. Now the band has shared a cover of Prince‘s “When You Were Mine,” from his 1980 album Dirty Mind. More

Nov 22, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Prince passed away at his home back in April. Today NPG Records and Warner Bros. Records are releasing a new best of, Prince 4Ever, which will include the previously unreleased song “Moonbeam Levels.” “Moonbeam Levels” was recorded in 1982 during the 1999 sessions. It was later considered for the never released Rave Unto The Joy Fantastic album. ABC News did a live stream where super Prince fans got to hear the song for the first time at New York City’s Cutting Room Studios. More

Oct 21, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Prince passed away at his home back in April. Now NPG Records and Warner Bros. Records have announced a deluxe reissue of his 1984 stone-cold all-time classic Purple Rain for a 2017 release and a new best of for release on November 22. More

Jun 22, 2016 By Joshua M. Miller

Judith Hill, a Grammy-winning artist and Prince protégé, has opened up to the New York Times about the moment when the plane they were on had an emergency landing to get Prince help. More

Jun 15, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Sweden’s El Perro Del Mar (aka Sarah Assbring) has announced a new album and shared a new video for single “Breadandbutter.” KoKoro is due out September 19 via The Control Group. Linda Pedersen and Nicole Walker directed the alternate Karaoke music video for “Breadandbutter,” which you can watch below, followed by the album’s tracklist and cover art. More

May 31, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Amanda Palmer and Jherek Bischoff have teamed up to cover Prince‘s classic “Purple Rain,” the title track to the late musician’s 1984 album (and soundtrack to the film of the same name). The cover can be streamed below and bought via Palmer’s Bandcamp for $1.00, with all proceeds benefitting The Elevate Hope Foundation (EHF), which, as a press release describes, is “a music and arts therapy program for abused and abandoned children co-founded by Sheila E. and long supported by Prince.” More

May 31, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

HAIM recently covered Prince‘s classic “I Would Die 4 U” (from the late icon’s 1984 album Purple Rain) at their tour opening show at the Observatory in Santa Ana, CA. They did it again this past weekend at the Boston Calling festival, but this time they brought up France’s Christine and the Queens on the stage to do a dance routine behind them. More

May 23, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Prince passed away at his home last month and the Prince tributes and covers have been fittingly constant ever since. Now Neon Indian‘s Alan Palomo has teamed up with various musicians to cover Prince’s “Pop Life,” a track from Prince’s 1985 album Around the World in a Day. More

May 18, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

HAIM started their latest tour last night at the Observatory in Santa Ana, CA. Not only did they cover Prince‘s classic “I Would Die 4 U” (from the late icon’s 1984 album Purple Rain), but the sister trio performed two brand new songs. More

May 05, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Prince passed away at his home on April 21 and the Prince tributes and covers have been fittingly constant ever since. Last night at his show in Prince’s hometown Minneapolis, Paul McCartney and his band launched into a brief but spirited cover of “Let’s Go Crazy,” from 1984’s Purple Rain. More

May 04, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Prince passed away at his home on April 21 and the Prince tributes and covers have been fittingly constant ever since. Over the weekend Beck covered Prince’s “Raspberry Beret” during his set at Memphis, TN’s Beale Street Music Festival. More

May 02, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Prince passed away at his home on April 21 but he left no will and no living children (in 1996 he has a son who died of Pfeiffer syndrome a week after being born), and was also not married at the time of his death. More

May 02, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Prince passed away at his home on April 21 and the Prince tributes and covers have been fittingly constant ever since. During their set at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on Friday My Morning Jacket covered “Purple Rain” and at another show in Oklahoma City last Wednesday they covered “Raspberry Beret,” as well as “Purple Rain” and “Sign O’ the Times.” More

Apr 27, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Prince passed away at his home last Thursday and the Prince tributes and covers have been fittingly constant ever since. Last night D’Angelo stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to cover Prince’s “Sometimes It Snows in April,” a song from 1986’sParade (which was also the soundtrack to Prince’s 1986 film Under the Cherry Moon). More

Apr 26, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Prince passed away at his home last Thursday and in the wake of his death his albums have shot up the Billboard 200 album charts as old fans revisit his music and new fans discover his genius for the first time. He occupies the #1 and #2 positions on the chart, withThe Very Best of Prince at #1 and 1984’s classic Purple Rain at #2. More

Apr 26, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Prince passed away at his home last Thursday and the Prince tributes and covers have been fittingly constant ever since. On Sunday Chris Martin of Coldplay performed at the Chords 2 Cure benefit concert in Santa Monica, CA in order to raise money for pediatric cancer research. More

Apr 25, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Prince passed away at his home last Thursday and the Prince tributes and covers have been fittingly constant ever since. On Saturday night Bruce Springsteen opened his show at Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Center with a cover of Prince’s “Purple Rain,” the title track to his 1984 album (also the soundtrack to the film of the same name). More

Apr 25, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Prince passed away at his home last Thursday and the Prince tributes and covers have been fittingly constant ever since. YACHT have shared a cover of Prince’s “Annie Christian” (originally found on his 1981 album Controversy). More

Apr 22, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Prince passed away at his home yesterday and last night the casts of two of Broadway’s biggest musicals paid tribute to him. More

Apr 21, 2016 By Matt Conner

I fell in love with Prince at the earliest possible age. As a child of the ‘80s, Prince was among the first artists who earned my attention, my devotion, and my money. More

Apr 21, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Prince has died. TMZ reports that the 57-year-old music icon was found dead this morning at his Paisley Park estate in Chanhassen, Minnesota. This was also confirmed by a statement from his publicist. The cause of death is unknown at this time, but last week (on April 15) Prince was on a flight home from Atlanta when the pilot had to make an emergency landing to take Prince to hospital, reportedly because he had the flu. But he performed at a concert the next day. More

Jul 24, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

In an interview with BBC 6 Music, the members of Prince‘s band 3rdEyeGirl revealed that Prince will be releasing a brand new album. More

Jul 21, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Back in May Prince released the fittingly titled song “Baltimore” in response to the death of Freddie Gray, who died in the custody of the Baltimore police department. Prince also performed a concert in Baltimore around the time of the protests about Gray’s death (protests which also devolved into riots). The song featured the vocals of Eryn Allen Kane. Now Kane has shared on her YouTube Prince’s video for the song. More

Jul 01, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Prince has shared a new song on Soundcloud. “HARDROCKLOVER” seems to be about a night with a special lady (as are many Prince songs), but this one seems to like hard rock. More

Nov 02, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Last night Prince and his backing band 3rdEyeGirl performed on Saturday Night Live. More

Oct 14, 2014 By Laura Studarus

On November 1, Saturday Night Live will be brought to you by the color purple. More

Sep 02, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

At the end of the month Prince will be releasing two new albums, ART OFFICIAL AGE, a new solo LP, and PLECTRUMELECTRUM, a new record with his band 3rdEyeGirl. More

Aug 25, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Already celebrating the 30th anniversary of his masterwork Purple Rain with an upcoming reissue, Prince has announced the release of not one, but two new albums to be released next month on Sept. 30. More

Apr 21, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Less than a day after announcing that he had reached a new deal with Warner Bros. that would give him control of his old catalog and that a 30th anniversary reissue of his seminal work Purple Rain would see release later this year, Prince provided yet another surprise over the weekend by dropping a brand new track titled, “BREAKDOWN.” More

Apr 18, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Prince has announced that he has reached a new agreement with Warner Bros that has given him full ownership of the master recordings of his classic hits. More

Mar 14, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Back in February Prince guest-starred on a special episode of Zooey Deschanel’s comedy New Girl. More

Feb 03, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

As if demonstrating his mastery of cool on national television last night wasn’t enough Prince has premiered a preview of a brand new song called “PRETZELBODYLOGIC.” More

Feb 03, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Last night, following one of the most one-sided Super Bowl’s in recent memory, Prince guest starred on a special episode of Zooey Deschanel’s comedy New Girl. More

Dec 13, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Prince has revealed that he will appear on an upcoming episode of the Zooey Deschanel comedy New Girl. More

Aug 19, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Last week headlines were made when the incredibly private Prince started using Twitter. More

Jul 14, 2017 By Ryan Meaney

In 1984, at perhaps the apex of his popularity, Prince was not simply a musician or a singer/songwriter. He was an enigma, a purple god with the uncanny ability to fill dance floors with songs of sexual liberation, apocalyptic imagery, and seductive rebellion. More