Following her zany performance of “Rabbit Hole” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last week, Jenny Lewis has released the music video for the track. The visual was shot live with Lewis and her band at the three-and-a-half hour On The Line Online fundraiser this past March, which raised more …
Read More »Kurt Cobain's 'Unplugged' Sweater Sells for Record $334,000 at Auction
Kurt Cobain‘s famed green cardigan from Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged concert sold for $334,000 at auction Saturday, establishing a new record for the most expensive sweater ever sold at auction and more than doubling its final-bid sale price from just four years ago. Once again, the olive green Manhattan brand sweater …
Read More »Old Dominion's Matthew Ramsey on Why It's Hard to Write a Song About America
Old Dominion and Brothers Osborne had a running joke on Twitter for a while about being mistaken for the other. Apparently it’s easy to confuse bands with duos in country music — even if their sounds couldn’t be more different. “It still happens,” says Old Dominion’s singer Matthew Ramsey, calling …
Read More »The 1975 Explore Their 'Frail State of Mind' on New Song
The 1975 have released the latest taste of their upcoming 2020 album Notes on a Conditional Form with new song “Frail State of Mind.” The band’s third album, A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships, came out last year. Singer Matty Healy’s vocals sit low in the mix on the drum-heavy song. …
Read More »Weyes Blood Unveils Cozy Alternate Takes from 'Titanic Rising'
Weyes Blood has released alternate takes of tracks from her 2019 critically acclaimed album Titanic Rising. Compiled on an EP titled Rough Trade Session, the set is available now via Sub Pop. Produced by Ariel Rechtshaid, the EP was originally released as a bonus CD included in Rough Trade’s release …
Read More »Watch Toto Reunite With 'Africa' Singer David Paich at Final Show for 'Foreseeable Future'
Toto wrapped up the final show of their 40 Trips Around the Sun tour at Philadelphia’s Metropolitan Opera House on Sunday night, and, according to guitarist Steve Lukather, it’s going to be their last performance for quite some time. “I don’t know what the future-future’s gonna be, but I do …
Read More »The Flaming Lips Announce 'Soft Bulletin' Live Album
The Flaming Lips will release their first-ever live album, The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, November 29th via Warner Records. The album features the band’s 2016 live performance of the band’s seminal 1999 effort The Soft Bulletin, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this …
Read More »The Song 'Gordon Ramsay' Is Going Viral. The Chef Gordon Ramsay May Not Know
Gordon Ramsay, the English chef who is almost as well-known for his creative cursing as his restaurants, made an unexpected appearance at the top of Spotify’s U.S. viral chart recently. Ramsay owes his musical moment to a pair of rapper-producers from Baytown, Texas: 19-year-old HL Wave and 21-year-old Jhonny Flames, …
Read More »Georgel, Esteman and Raymix Revamp Juan Gabriel's 'El Noa Noa' for a New Generation
In his 1980 country rock song, “El Noa Noa,” Mexican balladeer Juan Gabriel sang of the magical dancehall he once frequented in Ciudad Juarez: a place where everything and everyone was different, and where you could dance happily through the night. Over the years, the song became embraced by the …
Read More »Big Thief Perform 'Two Hands' Single 'Not' on 'Colbert'
Big Thief appeared onThe Late Show With Stephen Colbert Thursday night to perform their song “Not,” from their new albumTwo Hands. The track got a hard-rock spin for the band’s live performance, with plenty of distorted guitar fuzz, manic drums and beautiful, wailing vocals from Adrianne Lenker, who veered into …
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