Music

To commemorate what would have been John Lennon‘s 80th birthday, his family selected 36 songs from his solo catalogue and enhanced them for a new box set, Gimme Some Truth. The Ultimate Mixes. Each of the tracks in the collection — which was executive-produced by Yoko Ono Lennon and produced …

Tame Impala staged an intimate “Home” installment of NPR’s Tiny Desk series, playing a trio of recent songs. Kevin Parker, the Australian psych-pop act’s songwriter and sole studio contributor, fronts the performance at his home studio. Adjusting effects and EQs on a small mixer, he adds a heavier electronic presence …

Gloria “Goyo” Martínez, leading lady of the Latin Grammy-winning hip-hop trio ChocQuibTown, originally planned to spend the summer promoting the group’s new album, ChocQuibHouse. Instead, the singer-songwriter, 38, has spent the last two months at her home in Bogotá, organizing an international alliance of artists and music industry workers called …

Sony and Milan Records have released the first single, “Opening,” from the soundtrack to the Janelle Monáe-led horror film Antebellum. The movie will be released on September 18th, with the soundtrack available for download on the same day. The score to the film was written by Nate Wonder and Roman …

Todd Nance, founding drummer and 30-year member of the Southern rock jam band Widespread Panic, has died at the age of 57. The group and Nance’s family confirmed the drummer’s death Wednesday, adding that Nance died in Athens, Georgia, following “sudden and unexpectedly severe complications of a chronic illness.” “With …

Since writing “Woodstock” inside a New York City hotel room, Joni Mitchell‘s counterculture anthem has been covered repeatedly throughout the last 50 years, most famously with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s electrifying version on Déjà Vu. Now, a folky rendition by Bonnie Raitt has been unearthed, recorded at a March …

Nearly six months after the United States experienced its first outbreak of Covid-19, the virus shows no signs of slowing down. Since then, the entertainment industry as a whole has grappled with the question: How will live events, especially long-standing awards shows, survive the pandemic? While several major awards ceremonies …

A guitar that Jimi Hendrix played in the early Sixties — when the guitar god was an R&B sideman and fledgling rocker based in New York City — sold at auction Saturday for $216,000, nearly four times its pre-auction estimate. According to GWS Auctions, Hendrix began playing the Japanese sunburst …

Sam Morrow doubles down on the muscular country-funk of his 2018 album Concrete and Mud with “Rosarita,” the first release from the California performer’s upcoming LP. Titled Gettin’ By on Gettin’ Down, the project is due October 30th via Forty Below Records. Morrow penned “Rosarita” with fellow Californian Jaime Wyatt …

Taylor Swift‘s surprise eighth albumFolklore makes a shimmering debut atop the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums Chart this week with 852,700units, surpassing Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die for the biggest first week of any album so far in 2020 by over 300,000 units. The album, which was largely produced by …