After a 52-year run filled with some of the most familiar hits in mainstream rock history, Journey is calling it a career on the Final Frontier tour, which will encompass 60 North American shows beginning Feb. 28 in Hershey, Pa. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Nov. 14. “This tour is our […]
** Bass virtuoso Thundercat brings his signature style to a cover of the 1980 Diana Ross classic “Upside Down,” which is out now in collaboration with the game Candy Crush Saga and Brainfeeder. The track arrives in tandem with a playable in-game music video featuring “bursts of color” and other surprises. Fans can also obtain […]
There is a quote attributed to the late Athabascan elder and ambassador of indigenous Alaskan culture, Howard Luke. It’s about the concept of Gaalee’ya. “Gaalee’ya is a luck that you get by learning to live right with the land and the animals, including people, and everything around you, to respect everything.” We shouldn’t have to […]
Kelvin “Pos” Mercer—also known as Posdnuos or Plug One of pioneering hip-hop trio De La Soul—was flipping through television channels when he stumbled across the 1943 film Cabin in the Sky starring Lena Horne, Duke Ellington, and other jazz greats of that era. He instinctively knew that was going to be the title of the […]
“We had to get a death certificate,” says Travis Mills—one-half of pop-punk duo girlfriends, along with Nick Gross—over a video call from Studio City, about getting the rights to the social media handle that would bear the band’s name. Before we get into that, however, let’s back up a bit. Before girlfriends, Mills, who currently […]
Radiohead began their first tour in more than seven years last night (Nov. 4) in Madrid with a 25-song show drawing on eight of their nine studio albums (sorry, Pablo Honey fans). The performance was also the live debut of second drummer Chris Vatalaro, who has previously collaborated with Radiohead drummer Phil Selway, among many […]
Leonard Albert Kravitz was born in 1964, the only child of Black actress Roxie Roker and Jewish NBC news producer Sy Kravitz. Over the next few decades, he grew up to be one of his generation’s most iconic rock stars, befriending idols like Prince and Michael Jackson and dating an array of glamorous actresses and […]
It was the summer of 1992, and Ladybug Mecca, Butterfly, and Doodlebug—collectively known as Digable Planets—were recording their debut album, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), commuting back and forth between Brooklyn and a studio in Jersey. They didn’t know it at the time, but the album’s lead single, “Rebirth of Slick (Cool […]
Cat Power is honoring the impending 20th birthday of her beloved album The Greatest with a three-song EP, Redux, which will arrive Jan. 23 digitally and on 10-inch vinyl from Domino. The lead track is a newly recorded cover of James Brown’s “Try Me” featuring the Dirty Delta Blues band from the original tour in […]
Jimmy Eat World have rounded up a handful of digital-only singles as well as a new track, “Failure,” for the Something(s) Loud EP, which will be released Nov. 14 in physical form by the band’s Exotic Location Recordings label. “Failure” was recorded during 2019 sessions for the album Surviving but was ultimately held back from […]