Growing up in a house with musically obsessed parents ended up being a gift, but when I was 7, it was a nuisance. Car rides packed with blaring rock music (what’s now classic rock) were annoying, especially for a kid who was only interested in baseball. Dylan, Springsteen, the Dead, the Allmans and even U2 […]
Johnny Nash, whose upbeat pop-reggae song “I Can See Clearly Now” became a number-one, million-selling hit in 1972 and ubiquitous favorite has died at the age of 80, his son confirmed. No cause of death was given. Nash started singing professionally at 13 with his first break coming when he appeared on Arthur Godfrey’s radio and television […]
Kim Gordon is going to release a new book next week. Titled No Icon, the book will be released on Rizzoli, which describes it as “an edgy and evocative portrait of Gordon’s life, art, and style.” It will include unpublished personal photographs, magazine and newspaper clippings and other assorted things from across her career. Carrie Brownstein of […]
Van Halen songs like “Runnin’ With The Devil,” “Panama” and “Hot For Teacher” were the soundtrack to the lives of so many generations of rock fans, and there’s barely a musician in the world — guitarists especially — who didn’t idolize the fast-fingered, innovative playing of Eddie Van Halen. His death leaves a guitar-shaped hole […]
Eddie Van Halen, the iconic guitarist of Van Halen, has died at the age of 65. His son Wolfgang confirmed the news in an Instagram post. Van Halen had been battling cancer for several decades. Born on Jan. 26, 1955 in the Netherlands before moving to Pasadena with his family, Van Halen formed Mammoth in […]
Industrial/electronic icons Cabaret Voltaire shared a second tune, “The Power (Of Their Knowledge)” from the upcoming album, the first in 20 years, Shadow of Fear, today (Oct. 6). The first song from the forthcoming LP was the single “Vasto,” which dropped Aug. 20. Shadow of Fear is out Nov. 20, with Richard H. Kirk as the sole member of Cabaret Voltaire. […]
As they prepare to drop their latest album, As Long As You Are on Friday (Oct. 9), Future Islands has released a new video for “Born in a War.” Created by award-winning American artist Wayne White and his son, Woodrow, the visual — a collaboration that was six years in the making — takes a hard […]
After unveiling her monochorme video for “No Time to Die” last week, Billie Eilish brought a live performance of the track to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night (Oct. 5). With her brother Finneas at the piano, Eilish was seated on the steps of a beautiful theater and gave a smoldering performance of […]
The Antlers dropped “Wheels Roll Home,” their first new music since the 2014 release of their fifth album Familiars. “Wheels Roll Home” is a simple song about the hopeful promise of reunion after a long time gone,” lead singer and songwriter Peter Silberman explained in a statement. “It’s that feeling of finding home in someone, […]
By this point, we all know about Mariah Carey’s secret 1995 alt-rock album, which she finally revealed in her memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey. But now the engineer of Chick’s Someone’s Ugly Daughter —the name and album title Mimi recorded as — has something to say. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Carey’s longtime engineer Dana Jon […]