“I Contain Multitudes” is Bob Dylan‘s second surprise new song in three weeks, making it seem increasingly likely that the Nobel Prize winner has a new album on the way — which would be his first collection of original songs since 2012’s Tempest. The Walt Whitman-referencing new song is much …
Read More »'In My Room' With Lucinda Williams
“I know we all lost friends and family members and it’s just a helluva thing to be going through, but I want to send out my best wishes to all y’all and let’s just hang in tough,” says Lucinda Williams, offering words of encouragement near the end of her four-song …
Read More »Car Seat Headrest Caution Against 'Hollywood' in Animated Video
Car Seat Headrest have shared the animated video for their new song “Hollywood,” the latest track off their upcoming LP Making a Door Less Open. “This song is about Hollywood as a place where people go to make their fantasies come to life, and they end up exploiting other people …
Read More »Direct Message: How Oasis, Blur, and More Are Bringing 'Twitter Listening Parties' to Fans
Tim Burgess is on Twitter a lot, even when there’s not a global pandemic that’s keeping him and everyone else indoors. The lead vocalist of British alt band the Charlatans spends an inordinate amount of time on the social platform, tweeting dozens of times a day on just about everything …
Read More »Producers Tainy and Luny to Stage Historic Beat Battle on Instagram
Update: the full beat battle is now available to watch on YouTube. Over the course of the last month, stars have come up with all kinds of enterprising ways to keep their fans engaged during the rise of the government-mandated quarantine. So when Swizz BeatzandTimbaland faced off by comparing their …
Read More »See Neil Young's Third 'Fireside Sessions' Acoustic Concert
Neil Young has posted the third concert from his ongoing Fireside Sessions series. Like the two others, it’s a 30-minute acoustic show directed by Daryl Hannah at the home they share in Colorado. Watch it at the Neil Young Archives. Keeping with tradition, the set eschews obvious hits in favor …
Read More »Liam Gallagher Plots Special Concert for British Healthcare Workers Amid Coronavirus Crisis
Liam Gallagher will play a free concert in London later this fall for National Health Service workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. The show is currently scheduled for October 29th at the O2 in London. Gallagher will headline, while a poster promises additional “special guests.” Per the O2’s …
Read More »Watch Eric Church Sing John Prine's 'Long Monday'
“We lost one of my all-time favorites…a man that taught me how to write songs,” Eric Church says in a new video tribute to John Prine, who died Tuesday at 73 from complications related to COVID-19. With that brief introduction, he plays a minute-and-a-half or so of Prine’s song “Long …
Read More »Social Distancing With Ashley McBryde: Chocolate Milk and 'Tiger King'
Ashley McBryde is one of those artists in the odd predicament of having a new album arrive in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Never Will, the Arkansas native’s second release for Warner Bros. Nashville, came out April 3rd, and she’s been busily promoting it with interviews and an ongoing …
Read More »Lin-Manuel Miranda, 'Hamilton' Cast Reunite on John Krasinski's YouTube Show
On the second episode of John Krasinski’s quarantine talk show,Some Good News, the actor and host surprised 9-year-oldHamilton fan Aubrey with a surprise Zoom call from the cast of the hit musical. Krasinski first promised Aubrey that, once concerns over coronavirus had settled down, he would fly her and her …
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