Americana stalwart Jim Lauderdale has released a new song titled “Memory” from his upcoming 34th album Hope, which will be issued July 30th via Yep Roc. Following the first single, “The Opportunity to Help Somebody Through It,” the new track was co-written with longtime collaborator the late Grateful Dead lyricist …
Read More »Korn Bassist Fieldy Announces Hiatus From Band to Deal With 'Bad Habits'
Korn bassist Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu will not be playing on the band’s upcoming tour, the 51-year-old musician announced Monday in a Facebook post. In his statement, Arvizu wrote that he has been struggling with personal issues over the past year and that he is taking an indefinite hiatus from Korn …
Read More »Watch Coldplay Perform Stripped-Down 'Higher Power' on 'Fallon'
Coldplay appeared on The Tonight Show to showcase the acoustic rendition of their recent single “Higher Power.” Accompanied by a group of backup singers, including host Jimmy Fallon at one point, Chris Martin and crew gave the song a pared-down, intimate take. The performance follows this week’s release of the …
Read More »Foo Fighters' Bee Gees Tribute Band Announces 'Hail Satin' LP
The Dee Gees — a.k.a. the Foo Fighters’ Bee Gees tribute band — have announced Hail Satin, a Record Store Day exclusive vinyl out July 17th. The 10-track LP features the band’s take on five Brothers Gibb classics — Bee Gees’ “You Should Be Dancing,” Night Fever,” “Tragedy,” and “More …
Read More »Jay-Z Sues Hip-Hop Photographer Jonathan Mannion Over 'Reasonable Doubt'-Era Photos
Jay-Z has filed a lawsuit against hip-hop photographer Jonathan Mannion, accusing him of selling photos of Jay-Z and subsequently profiting off his likeness without the rapper’s permission. Jay-Z (whose real name is Shawn Carter) hired Mannion as a photographer in the mid-Nineties, and Mannion snapped “hundreds of photographs” of the …
Read More »Dropkick Murphys, Rancid Plot Co-Headlining Tour
Dropkick Murphys and Rancid will embark on their second co-headlining tour later this summer. The two rock outfits previously hit the road together in 2017. The Boston to Berkeley II trek was originally scheduled for last May but was postponed because of the pandemic. The run is now set to …
Read More »Hear Kylie Minogue's Infectious Cover of Lady Gaga's 'Marry the Night'
Nothing feels more perfect than Kylie Minogue covering Lady Gaga. The singer has dropped her own dance-fueled, synth-laden take on “Marry the Night,” off the upcoming Born This Way Reimagined. The cover is pretty true to the original version, although, of course, Minogue does her own thing on the vocals. …
Read More »This 1995 Bob Dylan Concert Is One of the Best Never Ending Tour Bootlegs
Bob Dylan played over 3,000 shows on the Never Ending Tour and it’s gone through countless iterations since beginning in 1988, but when Rolling Stone asked author and longtime scholar Clinton Heylin to name his favorite period, he instantly went with 1995. “That year was amazing, absolutely amazing,” he said. …
Read More »Deafheaven Preview New Album With Booming 'Great Mass of Color'
San Francisco metal favorites Deafheaven have released a new song, “Great Mass of Color,” from their upcoming album, Infinite Granite, out August 20th via Sargent House. “Great Mass of Color” is a characteristically dense and sprawling composition that repeatedly strives toward supersonic heights. Notably, however, frontman George Clarke delivers much …
Read More »Nick Jonas Recalls Death-Defying First Memory in Exclusive 'Blood' Excerpt
Around the time the Jonas Brothers reunited in 2019, Nick, Joe and Kevin announced plans to spill all the boy band dirt in a jointly written memoir titledBlood. Plans were put on hold last year, but the long-awaited project is officially back on. Jointly written with Neil Strauss, the former …
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