Among certain Prince enthusiasts, Susan Rogers is a legend. She engineered almost all of Prince’s recordings from his prolific, mind-bogglingly inventive mid-’80s period (she began working with him in 1983, as he was putting together Purple Rain, and left in 1987 after the recording of the legendary Black Album). To…

Happy Prince’s birthday! On what would have been his 60th, Prince’s estate has announced the September 21 release of Piano & A Microphone, a 9-song, 35-minute home recording of Prince noodling around at a piano. Recorded in 1983, the release will feature early takes on future classics like “Purple Rain” and “Strange…

We will soon be awash in new albums by a man who has now been dead for more than two years. Today, Tidal announced that it is preparing a new album culled from Prince’s legendary vault for a 2019 release. Tidal CEO Jay-Z is assisting in its compilation.

If you’re feeling weary, raw, enervated, at a loss, lonely, nostalgic, hopeful, or in need of a good sing-into-the-mirror track, this original 1984 studio version of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” will save you.

By many accounts, Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl Halftime Show was underwhelming, but according to Jimmy Fallon, it was “unbelievable” and “one of the best halftime performances of all time.” Okay, Jimmy.

There was something a little leaden in Justin Timberlake’s step during Sunday night’s Super Bowl LII Halftime Show; something muted in his voice, which lay low in the sound mix and was occasionally accompanied by backing vocals. The performance ran almost 14 minutes, but felt more like 20 in its slog through eight…

The UK’s Channel 4 has announced its plans air a documentary about the final days of Prince. According to the press release, Prince’s Last Year “will examine the last 365 days of his life, following him from a secret gig at the White House to his first ever solo concerts, called the Piano & a Microphone tour.” Cee-Lo…

One consolation prize for having to live in a world in which Prince’s body lay dead in the ground, it seemed for a time, is that he’d live on through his music like no pop star ever had. That’s because without its notoriously hawkish creator in the way, his famed vault of unreleased recordings seemed poised to be…

Prince’s 1987 concert film Sign o’ the Times, which has never been released on DVD or Blu-ray in the United States, will bow on Showtime on September 16 at 9 pm ET. The film, which was released to reinvigorate sales of his 1987 landmark album of the same name, was largely shot at Prince’s studio-compound home Paisley…

Prince’s affinity for the color purple throughout his career has led to a tribute-slash-branding-opportunity for Pantone. They’ve chosen to name a custom shade of purple after him.

The cosmic creature and rockstar we all knew as Prince was down with many things during his lifetime: the color purple, changing his name to a symbol, Jehovah’s Witnesses. But one thing he was absolutely, unequivocally not okay with was Youtube.

No single descriptor could sum up Prince, and he was acutely aware of this, turning his perceived ambiguity into copy (“Am I black or white / Am I straight or gay?” his how he mimicked outsiders’ curiosity in 1981's “Controversy”) and rejecting labels openly in a litany of all the things that he wasn’t in 1984's “I…

Today, on what would have been our dearly departed Prince’s 59th birthday, I have a recommendation: Get into Prince’s Camille project. The eight-song album (which would have turned 30 this year had it been released as originally intended) was to be issued with no mention of Prince’s name. Camille, the artist to be…

More than a year after his death in Chanhassen, Minnesota, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has released its internal file on Prince.

Like a Hilma af Klint painting beamed from the past to the future, a new old Prince song has arrived (can you tell I watched Personal Shopper this week?). A studio version of “Electric Intercourse,” a song that previously only circulated via bootlegs, has been released ahead of the deluxe edition of Purple Rain, which…

Via the Facebook page A Violet Reality, Variety got its hands on what it says is the tracklist of the long-delayed multi-disc reissue of Prince’s classic Purple Rain album (supposedly due out June 9, just two days after what would have been Prince’s 59th birthday). And if it’s real, please pinch me because I feel like…

Prince’s unexpected death last summer was determined an accidental overdose on the opioid fentanyl. Six days preceding his death, Prince overdosed on a plane, and had to be revived at a hospital following an emergency landing. Search warrants issued for Paisley Park, Prince’s Minnesota residence, have just been…

Prince’s ex-wife Mayte Garcia has written a memoir about her life with Prince (it’s called My Life With Prince) in which she shares stories about their “passionate love” and being “forever haunted” by the sudden death of their son Amir when he was just six days old.

Prince had fake palm trees in his bathroom. “Three-inch-tall flip-flops, or these heels with lights” was his idea of leisure footwear. He wanted to cancel birthdays. He enjoyed memes and sometimes made his own. He made his eggs with curry and cheddar, but he didn’t know how to turn on his oven. Despite his height, he…