Live music — at least the way we remember going to gigs in the “before” time — might be even closer to coming back than initially thought. After Pfizer announced that early results for a new COVID-19 vaccine presented a 90% efficacy rate during its first set of trials earlier this week, Ticketmaster began working […]
AC/DC’s new album, POWER UP, is out this Friday. Giving fans one last taste before the real thing is released, the band shared “Realize,” another muscular rocker. In three-and-a-half minutes, it sounds like, well, AC/DC. The balls-to-the-wall rocker features Angus Young’s monster chords and the band’s tight rhythm section, allowing Brian Johnson’s voice to shine. Listen […]
Haim have been known to churn out some great pop-rock music, as evidenced via their latest LP, Women in Music Pt. III. But when they were asked to contribute a song to the children’s movie The Croods: A New Age, Haim moved into a harder direction. Working with producer/co-writer and Guns N’ Roses superfan Ariel Rechtshaid, […]
In a cover story in the UK magazine Uncut, Paul McCartney admitted “Sometimes I wish I was a bit more like Bob Dylan…He’s legendary… and doesn’t give a shit!” McCartney, however, admits, “I’m not like that.” NME reports that during an interview centered on the making of his new solo album, McCartney III, the Beatles bassist said, “I […]
When Eels released “Are We Alright Again” in September, singer Mark Oliver Everett bka E said it was “kind of a quarantine daydream that I needed to have.” And the band has released a new video that completely brings that idea to fruition. Directed by Greg Barnes, the one-take visual presents actor Jon Hamm getting […]
Thundercat’s “Fair Chance” may have released in March. But the LA artist and producer knew there could be more done with the song. Released on Wednesday (Nov. 11), the track features Ty Dolla $ign and Lil B. While the original groove is still there, Floating Points speeds up the ballad exponentially — adding some new life […]
Before the pandemic, Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard had big plans for 2020. His band released their best album in years, Gigaton, and were gearing up for a huge tour — and that doesn’t include any 30th-anniversary plans they may have had. COVID stopped all that, of course. But Gossard was resourceful: He just formed a […]
There is a tiny, crumbling town in the Arkansas delta where spirits glide among the ruins, and in the liminal space between dusk and dark, if you get real quiet, you can hear, ever so faintly, the strains of a blues guitar. Hold your breath and lean in. It’s Robert Lockwood, Jr – couldn’t be […]
Old guys and hating on mildly controversial new music, is there a more predictable combination? Black Sabbath’s founding bassist, Geezer Butler, apparently doesn’t care for Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” and called it “disgusting” in an interview with Kerrang! magazine. “A friend of mine didn’t know what the song was about but his […]
Eddie Vedder and his wife Jill will be joined by celeb friends for Venture Into Cures, a one-hour virtual event that will see the Pearl Jam frontman perform two new songs — “Matter of Time” and a new version of “Say Hi” — inspired by Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), a rare genetic connective tissue disorder. The […]