In celebration of their formation 30 years ago, the Mavericks tease new music by taking a nostalgic trip back in country-music history, offering a jazz-injected version of one of the most memorable hits of the Eighties. “Swingin’,” penned by John Anderson and frequent writing partner Lionel Delmore, topped the charts …
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The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde mingles jazz grooves and psychedelic experimentation on her new cover of the Kinks‘ 1967 song “No Return.” The track opens with a wash of static, building to a Bossa nova drum pattern and atmospheric piano. “If I could see/ Just how lonely my life would be/ …
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The New Jersey-raised Jonas Brothers celebrated their home state for their VMA performance by performing theirHappiness Begins singles “Sucker” and “Only Human” on the famed Asbury Park boardwalk. The band is currently on their first tour together in six years. The band took on “Sucker” to a packed audience at …
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In mid-January 1969, Elvis Presley and his entourage arrived at American Sound Studios in Memphis for a scheduled 10-day recording session with studio producer Chips Moman and Presley’s longtime RCA producer Felton Jarvis. These would be the first sessions Presley had done outside of Nashville or Hollywood since his last …
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In a new statement, Peter Murphy has confirmed that he is doing well following a heart attack earlier this month. The former Bauhaus frontman was rushed to Lenox Hill Hospital on August 13th with shortness of breath and admitted, causing the singer to cancel a run of New York concerts. …
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Eminem‘s publishing company, Eight Mile Style, has filed a copyright infringement suit against Spotify, The Hollywood Reporter reports. The suit, filed on Wednesday, claims that Spotify has no license to stream hundreds of the rapper’s songs. Among the estimated 250 songs in question are several of Eminem’s massive hits. The …
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Country trio Midland sparked a lot of unnecessarily heated debates back when they first arrived. Their throwback aesthetic and sound — a playful, scuffed-up nod to the oft-derided Urban Cowboy era in country and its characteristic softness — drew suspicion from anyone who shaped their idea of masculinity around Waylon …
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Sleater-Kinney have commemorated the release of their new album The Center Won’t Hold with a music video for album cut “Love.” The clip features Polaroid images collected from fans with the song’s lyrics scrawled as caption on each photo, as well as on a map of America. The band previously …
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The 1975 frontman Matt Healy kissed a male fan onstage during a show in Dubai on Wednesday in protest of the country’s strident anti-LGBTQ laws. The Coca-Cola Arena show was the band’s first-ever concert in the United Arab Emirates. During the song “Loving Someone,” Healy stepped off the stage and …
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For his first LP since 22, A Million, Justin Vernon dials back the avant-pop extremes a bit, giving human larynxes and other acoustic instruments more room to flex amidst a landscape of synths and vocal-processing veils. You wouldn’t guess it from opening minute or so of the similarly-comma-smitten i, i …
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