Music

As advertised, there were no phones allowed atJack White‘stour opener on Thursday. For the artist’s biggest show yet in Detroit, his hometown and site of the Third Man Pressing plant, only one thing mattered: that fans had a “100 percent human experience” devoted to music, as White put it in …

Mazzy Star will release a new EP, Still, on June 1st via Rhymes of an Hour Records. The duo – singer Hope Sandoval and guitarist David Roback – previewed the four-track set with the airy ballad “Quiet, the Winter Harbor.” “You’re like a villain in some old film/ Walking in …

On Sunday night, Miranda Lambert performed “Keeper of the Flame,” from her double album The Weight of These Wings, on the ACM Awards stage. Written with Natalie Hemby and Liz Rose, it’s a song that acknowledges the trailblazing efforts of those who came first, as well as the importance of …

“The basic mistake that people make about Elvis was that he came along and got lucky,” record producer Ernst Jørgensen says in the new two-part HBO documentary Elvis Presley: The Searcher. “No, he didn’t get lucky. He worked hard and he created the music with great musicians. He had a …

Former Beastie Boys member Ad-Rockoffers a funkier edge to Spoon‘s “Can I Sit Next to You” in his new remix of the 2017 song. The rapper-producer reinvents the indie-rock tune, deconstructing the arrangement with layers of feedback, clattering drums, distorted bass and processed samples of singer Britt Daniel’s voice. Spoon …

Red Dirt country singer Jason Boland is thankful for all the good things that have come his way during his 20-year career – especially his wife Mandy, the inspiration behind his atypical honky-tonk love song “I Don’t Deserve You.” Rather than take the tried-and-true approach to a love song, Boland …

Seated in the front lounge of a sleek black motor coach, Blackberry Smoke‘s Charlie Starr is looking out the window into the fresh spring greenery just beyond his reach, ignoring the muted television in the corner as the engine idles. Starr has a reserved ease about him, but the meaning …

After nearly a decade of recording, musician Charlie Rich signed a deal with Epic Records in 1967, making it his sixth record label since signing with Sun in 1960. Rich’s bent for jazz and R&B made the idea of marketing him as a country artist less than ideal, but at …

UPDATE: Janelle Monae will release her 44-minute short filmDirty Computer: An Emotion Picture By Janelle Monáeon MTV and BET on April 26th, one day before the release of her new album Dirty Computer. “Dirty Computer is a near-future story that takes place in a totalitarian society,” she tells Rolling Stone.“I …

Three of the most acclaimed country and Americana artists of the past three decades are teaming for a North American tour this summer. Dubbed the LSD Tour, a clever play on their first names, it will feature singer-songwriters Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle and Dwight Yoakam all taking the stage at …