Legendary country music singer Loretta Lynn has died at age 90 at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tenn., a spokesperson has confirmed to SPIN. Lynn sold 45 million albums and scored 51 top 10 country hits in her career, including iconic songs such as “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” “Fist City” and “Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ […]
Japanese Breakfast has recorded an acoustic take on Brandi Carlile’s “The Story” to soundtrack the fall 2022 brand campaign from the North Face. “It was a joy to take on the iconic ballad “The Story,’” Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner says. “I think the song captures the depths of human tenacity and the spirit of the […]
I was born in Detroit in the 1980s, and it was a wild place back then. My mom worked for Michigan Bell, like “Ma bell, got the ill communications” (Beastie Boys “Get It Together” ft. Q-Tip from Ill Communication). My parents got me out of there when I was young, and we moved to Pennsylvania […]
Grammy-winning guitarist and Black Pumas co-founder Adrian Quesada will release his second album of 2022, Jaguar Sound, Nov. 18 via ATO Records. Ahead of premiering songs from the album this coming weekend at the Austin City Limits festival, Quesada has shared its lead single, “Noble Metals.” “I just rode my bike every single day and […]
Depeche Mode will return to the live stage for a 2023 world tour, its first since co-founder/keyboardist Andy Fletcher’s death earlier this year. The Memento Mori trek, named after a new album arriving in the spring, will begin March 23 in Sacramento, Calif., and then hit Europe starting May 16 in Amsterdam. “We started work […]
With just three days until the release of its third album of 2022, Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard has revealed a very trippy animated video for another song from it, the nine-minute “Iron Lung.” “When I heard this track, I had just started delving into fully animated […]
For Pardyalone (born Kalvin Beal) music is a form of expression to work through struggles with depression, anxiety, and the gamut of negative emotions that plague so many people in our ever-chaotic world. Growing up in Big Lake, Minnesota, he participated in other solitary endeavors, like skateboarding and creative writing — or any other outlet […]
Ohana Fest has become a staple on the Southern California concert calendar. Taking place on the beach at Doheny State Park in Dana Point, the festival is the unofficial end of summer and the Southland festival season. Last year, Eddie Vedder’s festival returned with not one, but two weekends of music. Vedder and Pearl Jam […]
Ed Sheeran will be back in North American stadiums for the first time in five years next spring and summer as part of the + – = ÷ x Tour, which will kick off May 6 in Arlington, Tex., and run through Sept. 23 in Inglewood, Calif. Khalid and Russ will support, with Dylan, Cat […]
On his 30th birthday, Grammy-winning musician, singer, and songwriter Billy Strings announced the release of his debut album co-written and co-produced with his father, Terry Barber. The album Me/And/Dad arrives on November 18 via Rounder Records. The album comprises new renditions of fourteen bluegrass and country songs that Strings and his father have been playing […]