There’s a distinct lack of synchronicity in the Police camp. Per U.K. reports, guitarist Andy Summers and drummer Stewart Copeland are suing vocalist/bassist Sting in London’s High Court under the “general commercial contracts and arrangements” category, claiming they are owed millions in royalties. The specific details of the filing have not been made public, but […]
Tom Hanks made his directing debut in 1996 with That Thing You Do!, a fictional saga of a one-hit-wonder 1960s band punningly called the Wonders. The title song, written by Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, captures the ’60s zeitgeist in a tidy two minutes and 43 seconds. But Hanks chose it after a wide audition. […]
86-year-old legend Mavis Staples has rounded up a star-studded cast of collaborators for her new album, Sad and Beautiful World, arriving Nov. 7 from Anti-. The Brad Cook-produced project is led by Staples’ covers of Frank Ocean’s “Godspeed” and Kevin Morby’s “Beautiful Strangers,” the latter of which was written in tribute to victims of the […]
Somewhere deep in the archives of the lime-green, forum-shaped headquarters of Mutato Muzika, Mark Mothersbaugh is digging up the distant past. The building houses his music production company on the Sunset Strip, but also the entire recorded history of Devo, the groundbreaking art-punk new wave band he co-founded with Jerry Casale back in the 1970s. […]
Frederick Mark Linkous was born into a family of coal miners in Virginia in 1962, and in the ’80s he moved to New York City and then to Los Angeles in search of success in the music industry. Linkous’s gift for riffs and hooks is readily apparent in the two albums he recorded as the […]
A day ahead of the launch of their fall tour with Pixies in Santa Ana, Ca., Spoon has treated fans to a new double A-sided single featuring the songs “Chateau Blues” and “Guess I’m Fallin in Love.” Here both below. The tracks emerged from summer recording sessions for the follow-up to 2022’s Grammy-nominated Lucifer on […]
While a full reissue campaign of Hüsker Dü’s SST Records discography remains stalled due to longstanding disputes between the two parties, Numero Group continues to help fill the void. The label has set a Nov. 7 release date for 1985: The Miracle Year, a four-LP boxed set spotlighting the hugely influential Minneapolis trio’s Jan. 30, […]
Home is a feeling. Home can be a mountain, an island, a stranger’s home where you’re welcomed like family. Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, better known as Bad Bunny, decided he’s homebound for the summer. During prime festival and touring season, the megastar—whose latest album Debí Tirar Más Fotos (I Should Have Taken More Photos) hit […]
It proved a right perfect evening, as the Brits might say. August 24—Oasis’s first of two sold-out shows at Toronto’s Rogers Stadium—kicked off the North American leg of their reunion tour by bringing the U.K.’s rainy weather, Manchester City’s Poznań tradition, and a two-hour set of Brit-pop classics, all under the watchful eye of a […]
Rapper Playboi Carti will embark on a nearly two-month North American Antagonist tour this fall, beginning Oct. 3 in Salt Lake City and wrapping Dec. 1 in Atlanta. Carti’s Opium Collective, consisting of Ken Carson, Destroy Lonely and Homixide Gang, will serve as opening acts. The artist will be on the road in support of […]