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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Los Angeles trio Fuzz, featuring Ty Segall, Charles Moothart and Chad Ubovich, are back with a new song, “Returning,” from their upcoming album, III, out October 23rd via In the Red Recordings. “Returning” is a three-minute blast of big riffs, bruising bass and battering drums, with Segall howling the song’s …
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For more than 30 years, the Jazz Foundation of America has worked to keep jazz, blues and R&B alive by providing assistance to musicians in need. The non-profit provides everything from housing assistance to teaching jobs to hundreds of musicians and has helped artists with basic living expenses during the …
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When Lin-Manuel Miranda debuted the first song from what he was then calling The Hamilton Mixtape at the White House in 2009, Alex Lacamoire was there, accompanying him on piano. Lacamoire, who previously collaborated with Miranda on In the Heights (as well as Bring It On: The Musical), became Hamilton‘s musical director, arranging every …
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Rappers YBN Cordae and Trae tha Truth were among 87 people arrested at a protest demanding justice for Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday. The demonstration, per the Louisville Courier-Journal, was organized by the group Until Freedom and was composed by about 100 people, who marched to the home …
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Twenty-five years ago this month, Batman Forever was playing in multiplexes and it was hard to leave your house without being reminded of that fact roughly every 90 seconds. Billboards showing Val Kilmer, Jim Carrey, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris O’Donnell, and Nicole Kidman dotted the landscape; Super Nintendo was selling …
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