Leaving Hip-Hop Behind, Post Malone Turns His Vices Into the Stuff of Pure Synth-Pop in ‘Austin’: Album Review

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic “Try to Remember,” the most famous song to have come out of the stage musical “The Fantasticks,” was noted for its autumnal feel, sung by someone reflecting back on youthful days. The happy irony is that Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt wrote that song prior to the show’s original 1960 staging when they were both still relatively young men of about 30, fellows who still had about two-thirds of their lives ahead of them.

Ken Burns lives just where you might imagine. The documentary filmmaker, who has spent a lifetime exploring American history, long ago made Walpole, New Hampshire his home, a bucolic village founded before the American Revolution. It’s dotted with old inns and quaint shops, and democracy is practiced there the old-fashioned way, through the traditional Town Meeting. 

There was a brief moment during Hip Hop 50 Live — an epic celebration of the golden anniversary of hip-hop that stretched from Friday night into Saturday morning at New York’s Yankee Stadium— that provided a quick reality check.In between Kid Capri’s DJ set and a breakdancing segment featuring Rock Steady Crew legend Crazy Legs, Yankee legend Derek Jeter crashed what felt like the world’s biggest block party and reminded you that it was actually the home of the Bronx Bombers.But on this unforgettable night, the stadium belonged to hip-hop — the music and the game-changing culture that was fathered by DJ Kool Herc at a party in the South Bronx 50 years ago on Aug. 11, 1973.And with a loaded lineup that included golden-age groundbreakers (Run-DMC, Slick Rick), West Coast rap royalty (Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube) and new-millennium masters (Lil Wayne, T.I.), the marathon, seven-hour-plus concert felt like the Live Aid of hip-hop.

Editors’ Note: This guest column by former Luke Cage showrunner and Creed II writer Cheo Hodari Coker is part of Deadline’s series commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop on August 11.

Run-DMC, a 12-year-old Darryl McDaniels got his first education in hip-hop at St. Pascal Baylon Catholic school in Jamaica, Queens.“I was in seventh grade, and Billy Morris — who was in the eighth grade — walked into the schoolyard with a flat Panasonic tape recorder that all the kids would use [back when] there were no boomboxes,” DMC, 59, told The Post.“And he said, ‘Yo, come listen to this!’ He pushed play, I heard a beat … and it was about, like, a minute and 30 seconds of this guy rapping over this little drum beat.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The new collaborative album by Vince Gill and instrumentalist Paul Franklin is not a vocal duets record. But for anyone who believes that there’s something about the steel guitar that’s uncannily akin to the moan of the human voice, in spirit if not sound, maybe it’s close enough.

Ulrika Jonsson has waded into Catherine Tyldesley's 'cakegate' - describing the request of free products as ‘cheeky and cocky’.

A B&M shopper was left delighted after she discovered a candle that is a 'dupe' for her favourite Jo Malone scent on a recent trip to the store.

Post Malone is seriously indulging his nerdy side.

Post Malone is getting candid about his bathroom habits, revealing he writes his best songs lyrics while he’s on the toilet. "Sometimes I’ll bring a guitar in there," the rapper-songwriter told Alex Cooper on her "Call her Daddy" podcast on Wednesday.

Post Malone is happily engaged to his fiancée — but he had to pop the question twice.

Post Malone is speaking out about his life as a new dad. In an interview on Alex Cooper'spodcast, the 28-year-old musician is sharing rare details about his personal life and how welcoming his baby girl has changed his views on drinking. Answering a question about his biggest fear in life, he admitted, «I guess not being able to be there for my baby, which is a new fear.

Post Malone has purchased the sought-after Magic: The Gathering The One Ring card for an undisclosed price.The One Ring, which is worth over £1.5million, is a unique card and its valuation surged once word got out that it had been pulled by a lucky player in Whitby in Ontario, Canada.Originally keeping his identity out of the limelight, Brook Trafton posted a video to TikTok showing the American singer and rapper agreeing to buy his Magic: The Gathering card.Check it out below:When I found the One Ring, the first person who came to mind was @Post Malone. I have played MTG since I was a kid and obviously it would be amazing to keep this card.

Post Malone has revealed how using magic mushrooms has impacted his short-term memory.The rapper was taking part in a new interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe on Wednesday (July 26) when he revealed that he has suffered long-term side effects from magic mushrooms.“Yeah, I take shrooms,” he told Lowe. “I like shrooms… [but] not as much as I used to. It’s really affected my short-term memory.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Joni Mitchell FOMO: it’s a real thing. Or it was a year ago, when she made a surprise appearance at the Newport Folk Festival, and again this summer, when Mitchell booked an appearance as part of a Brandi Carlile mini-festival in Washington state, which was advertised and had tickets sold in advance but instantly sold out.

New Music Friday! The weekend is here, which means more streaming, new playlists and the best that music has to offer. ET has you covered for everything in between.Travis Scott dropped his new album,, with features from everyone from James Blake to Kid Cudi to… Beyoncé?! (Cue the gif of Tiffany «New York» Pollard.) Post Malone shared his latest, a semi-self-titled album called.

The first teaser for season three of The Morning Show has been released!

S Club fans have been left in tears as the group released their first new song in 20 years. Jon Lee, Jo O'Meara, Bradley McIntosh, Tina Barrett and Rachel Stevens have released 'These Are the Days' in tribute to their late bandmate Paul Cattermole.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Jason Aldean played his first concert Friday since his vigilante anthem “Try That in a Small Town” stirred up a national firestorm, soaking up a Cincinnati crowd’s adoration Friday night as he railed against “cancel culture” being responsible for the opposition to his divisive, violence-threatening song and video. “It’s been a long week. I’ve seen a lot of stuff suggesting I’m this, suggesting I’m that,” Aldean said, as the audience at the Riverbend Music Center booed the opposition he’s faced. “I feel everybody’s entitled to their opinion. You can think something all you want to, it doesn’t mean it’s true. What I am is a proud American… I love our country. I want to see it restored to what it once was before all this bullshit started happening to us. I love my country. I love my family. And I will do anything to protect that,” he declared, as the crowd began chanting “USA! USA!”

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Move over, Taylor Swift — Roger Waters has re-recorded the most famous of the albums he made with Pink Floyd in the 1970s for its 50th anniversary. The project, titled “The Dark Side of the Moon Redux,” comes out Oct. 6. The album’s first single, “Money,” a fresh take on the 1973 song that was the band’s biggest hit, was released today as an audio track and lyric video. Any similarities to Swift’s re-recordings end with the most basic concept, as Water says he does not mean the new version to supplant the old one, but to complement it as a more mature take on the material. As for the big question of who will replaced his estranged former partner David Gilmour’s lead vocal and guitar parts, the seven-and-a-half minute “Money” seems to at least partially answer that. Taking over Gilmour’s role on the mic in the song, Waters “sings” the song in a spoken whisper, and the guitar solo has been replaced by what seems to be a new, lengthy poem set in a metaphorical boxing-ring. The tune has been significantly transformed in other ways; it’s bluesier and less rocking, with no cash registers or random voices or other sound effects. Some of the first listeners to hear it after it came out in the wee hours compared it to a Leonard Cohen recitation.