Singer/songwriter Alana Springsteen is the guest on the latest installment of the Lipps Service podcast, speaking with host Scott Lipps about the Feb. 13 release of her new single, “back to self,” the as-yet-untitled parent album of which will arrive later this year through Santa Anna Records. Springsteen digs into her experiences touring with Keith […]
In the summer of 1985, Queen seized the world’s attention with their Live Aid set, and Freddie Mercury commanded the entire crowd at Wembley Stadium to clap their hands in unison to “Radio Gaga.” Eight-and-a-half months later in the spring of 1986, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta was born on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, […]
Rapper Baby Keem will make a long-overdue return Feb. 20 with his sophomore pgLang/Eerie Times/Columbia album, Ca$ino, which features his cousin Kendrick Lamar on the song “Good Flirts.” A nine-minute behind-the-scenes film can be sampled below about the artist, who has also confirmed an extensive global tour. Ca$ino is the follow-up to the 25-year-old Keem’s […]
The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music will pay tribute to Dionne Warwick, Patti Smith, Dr. Dre, the E Street Band and the Doors at its fourth annual American Music Honors, which will take place April 18 at Pollak Theatre on the campus of Monmouth University in West Long Branch, N.J. A posthumous […]
MUNA balances loneliness and euphoria on “Dancing on the Wall,” the lead single and title track from its fourth studio album. The project will be released May 8 through Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory label through Secretly Group. The Katie Gavin-led trio calls “Dancing on the Wall” “possibly our favorite song we’ve made as a band. […]
Jimmy Eat World will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its breakthrough album, Bleed American, on an extensive tour beginning June 9 at Red Rocks outside Denver and concluding with Nov. 14-15 Orlando, Fl., stops on the revived Vans Warped Tour, for which the band will appear at all five dates. The tour also boasts Jimmy […]
Tame Impala / Pond principal Jay Watson nods in the direction of jazz on his seventh album as GUM, Blue Gum Way, which will be released March 6 on King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s p(doom) label. Sample new song “Celluloid” and its Kristofski-directed video below. “Everything feels worse in the middle of the night,” […]
By 2002, Philly-bred emcee Bahamadia was already established among the hip-hop elite. After jumpstarting her career as a DJ, she caught Gang Starr rapper Guru’s attention for her work on the Funky Vibes EP. Her 1996 debut, Kollage, landed on the Billboard 200 and peaked at No. 13 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, anchored […]
Laughter in Summer is a whisper of an album. It feels like the embrace of a warm summer day, a wispy dalliance with joy. However, the origins of the record stem from news that would push most into darkness. In 2024, musician and trans activist Beverly Glenn-Copeland revealed he had been diagnosed with dementia. Rather […]
Eugene Hütz got his first taste of faraway New York in 1989. He was just 14 then and growing up in Ukraine, when an uncompromising rock band called Sonic Youth exploded his mind with waves of experimental sound, hot-rodded guitars, and avant-garde tunes. Two decades before starting his own band, Gogol Bordello, Hütz discovered his […]