Members of the Gaslight Anthem, the Ratchets, and Let Me Run have linked up to form a new band, Forgivers, which dropped a debut single, “Some Future.” The New Jersey-based rock outfit boasts the Gaslight Anthem’s Alex Rosamilia and Alex Levine on guitar and bass, respectively; the Ratchets’ Jed Winokur …
Read More »Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak's Silk Sonic to Perform at 2021 Grammys
Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak’s Silk Sonic will make their live debut this Sunday during the 2021 Grammy Awards telecast, the Recording Academy confirmed on Tuesday. The newly formed duo has been playfully campaigning to perform at the event all week. The pair started their quest innocently enough with back-and-forth …
Read More »RS Charts: Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous' Number One for Eighth Week
The chart dominance of Morgan Wallen continued this week as Dangerous: The Double Album coasted to Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. Wallen’s set has now been in the top spot for two consecutive months. The backlash over a video of the singer using a racial …
Read More »Chance the Rapper Drops Video for New Song 'The Heart and the Tongue'
Chance the Rapper contemplates an internal struggle in the video for his new song “The Heart & the Tongue,” his first new music of 2021 “My heart and tongue are fightin’/My mind is undecided/It’s not like Trump and Biden/It’s more like it’s something private/Like when yo cousins fighting/One of ’em get excited/You can’t just …
Read More »Nick Cave Joins Cast of Interactive Play 'Dream,' Playing a Forest
Nick Cave has joined the cast ofDream, a virtual, interactive theater production based on William Shakespeare‘s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Cave will provide the voice of the forest in the play — appropriately named The Voice of the Forest — described as “a strange and mystical character who accompanies the …
Read More »Ashe and Finneas Team Up for Epic Duet 'Till Forever Falls Apart'
Finneas and Ashe have reunited for a new duet, “Till Forever Falls Apart.” The track begins as a tender ballad with delicate guitar twisting around soft piano, while Ashe unravels a charming melody that nearly recalls “Pure Imagination” from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Soon, “Till Forever Falls Apart” …
Read More »Nandi Bushell Lives Out Her Rock & Roll Dreams
Nandi Bushell is midway through a busy Saturday when she logs on to Zoom: She’s just spent the morning taking advantage of a rare snowfall in her home of Ipswich, England. “First, I just threw snowballs at my brother,” says the 10-year-old musician, who became an online sensation last fall …
Read More »Can Preview New Album 'Live in Stuttgart 1975' With Mesmerizing Excerpt
German krautrock pioneers Can will release a new series of live albums, with the first installment, Live in Stuttgart 1975, arriving May 28th via Mute and Spoon Records. Mute and Spoon previewed the release with an excerpt from “Stuttgart 75 Eins,” the first track on the album. (With their freeform …
Read More »Vinyl Me, Please Launches Country Series With Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson Reissues
Music subscription service Vinyl Me, Please has announced it will kick off its country music-themed Record of the Month series in March with an exclusive reissue of Johnny Cash’s 1968 classic At Folsom Prison. The VMP Country “membership track” will also rerelease Willie Nelson‘s 1973 album Shotgun Willie in April, …
Read More »Iceage Preview New Album With 'Vendetta'
Iceage have announced their new album Seek Shelter, out May 7th via Mexican Summer. To accompany the release, the band dropped the dark new single “Vendetta.” Directed by Jonas Bang, the video features Croatian-Danish actor Zlatko Burić in various scenes — wearing sunglasses, peeling apples, and smoking cigarettes — while …
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