Young Guv’s Ben Cook tells us about the inspirations behind new album ‘GUV III’
Former Fucked Up guitarist Ben Cook just released his third album of jangly power pop under the Young Guv name...
Miles Davis
Record Store Day announces 2022 exclusive releases
Record Store Day 2022 happens April 23 and they've just announced this year's list of exclusive releases, as well as a second drop day, June 18, as a "safety net" date for records that may encounter supply chain issues
Wilco & Sleater-Kinney covering each other’s classic songs on new 7″ + Wilco made a playlist
Wilco and Sleater-Kinney's co-headlining tour begins in August.
CARM releases guest-filled LP (Sufjan, Bon Iver, etc), discusses the music that influenced it
Even if you don't know CJ Camerieri by name, you've probably heard his horn playing. He's a member of yMusic and he's played on records by Taylor Swift, Paul Simon, Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, The National...
Johnny Cash, Billie Holiday, Woody Guthrie, & more may become statues in Trump’s ‘Garden of American Heroes’
Also on the list for Trump's proposed monument garden: Elvis Presley, Louis Armstrong, Irving Berlin, Ray Charles, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Frank Sinatra, and many more.
LNZNDRF (The National, Beirut) announce new LP, share song, discuss influences
LNZNDRF -- the band of The National's Scott and Bryan Devendorf and National/Beirut/Sufjan/etc collaborator Benjamin Lanz, which now also officially includes Aaron Arntz (Beirut, Grizzly Bear) of their live lineup -- will follow their 2016 self-titled debut LP...
Budos Band prep ‘Long in the Tooth’, made us a horn-heavy playlist
Budos Band, the horn-fueled NYC group that incorporate everything from Fela-influenced afrobeat to Sabbath-style riffage into their sound, release new album Long in the Tooth in October via Daptone.
Today’s livestreams (Kendrick Lamar, Solange, Missy Elliott, Alanis Morissette, more)
plus Jeff Rosenstock, Soccer Mommy, Yves Tumor, Margo Price, Charly Bliss, Andrew Bird, and more livestreams you can watch today since there are no live concerts to attend.
Prince’s ‘Sign o’ the Times’ getting massive super deluxe edition (stream an unreleased track)
The Super Deluxe edition of ’Sign O' the Times’ includes 63 previously unreleased tracks, 45 of those being studio ”vault” tracks.
Bob Dylan discusses George Floyd, John Prine, Little Richard & more in rare interview
”It sickened me no end to see George tortured to death like that.”