Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2017 nominees (2Pac, Pearl Jam, Bad Brains, Depeche Mode, Jane’s Addiction, more)
Pearl Jam and Tupac Shakur are nominated in the first year that they're eligible.
The Cars
Pitchfork list their 200 best songs of the 1970s
Back in 2004, Pitchfork published their Top 100 Albums of the 1970s list, and today they've returned with the 200 Best Songs of the 1970s. Some of the artists who didn't make the cut on the albums list are now here, like Black Sabbath, Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith...
Physical copies of new Car Seat Headrest LP recalled/destroyed due to unauthorized Cars sample
Car Seat Headrest's very good new album Teens of Denial is out next week (5/20). Unfortunately it will only be out digitally as a little legal hiccup has caused the LPs and CDs -- which were all pressed and printed -- to be recalled, and then destroyed. It's all because of the song "Just What I Wanted/Not Just What I Needed" which incorporated parts of The Cars' hit "Just What I Needed."
Britta Phillips releasing first-ever solo album — listen to her cover of Evie Sands’ “One Fine Summer Morning”
Britta Phillips has made records with Luna and as one half of Dean & Britta, not to mention her early-'90s band The Belltower. (She was also the singing voice of Jem...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2016 nominees revealed (Janet Jackson, Cheap Trick, The Cars, The Smiths, NWA & more)
The 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees have been announced, and first-time nominees include Janet Jackson, Cheap Trick, The Cars, Los Lobos and m...
Blondie/Cars-related band The Empty Hearts played Knitting Factory with Party Lights (pics, setlist, videos)
The Empty Hearts, aka the band featuring Blondie's Clem Burke, The Cars' Elliot Easton, The Romantics' Wally Palmer and Chesterfield Kings' Andy Babiuk, brought their current tour to NYC for a show at Knitting Factory on 10/18 with Party Lights...
The Empty Hearts (mems Blondie, The Cars) released an LP, touring; Blondie/Portishead mems backing The Rua at CMJ
The Empty Hearts are a new-ish supergroup featuring Blondie's Clem Burke, The Cars' Elliot Easton, The Romantics' Wally Palmer and Chesterfield Kings' An...
100 Most Influential Artists, according to NME
"There was a certain amount of science to it. An entire week of work experience students left the office thinking that cutting-edge music journalism in 2014 mostly involves calculating which bands have been mentioned most in NME in the past two years, then hunting out references to the bands that influenced those acts online and finally adding up the number of times each influence came up...
Lollapalooza 2011 — Day 3 pics & review (EITS, TPOBPAH, Best Coast, The Cars, Portugal the Man, Arctic Monkeys & more)
Sorry for the delay of our third and final installmet of Lollapalooza 2011 coverage, but here it is! Due to the major downpour on the Sunday of the fest, Grant's pictures were almost lost forever in a wet camera, but are now recovered...
The Cars played Roseland (pics, setlist), playing Lollapalooza
In case you missed it, we wrote our own little Lollapalooza preview for Lollapalooza.com, The Cars included. Bill wrote:So many bands have cribbed from The Cars' new wave playbook you may have forgotten that they did it first...