Onstage, with a coltish appeal and arms akimbo, Starcrawler singer Arrow De Wilde exudes a punk power akin to a mutant offspring of Debby Harry, Michael Monroe and Iggy Pop. At 23, she’s the real deal, an old soul whose actual lineage and creative family is just as cool as any imagined DNA from rock […]
Fontaines D.C. released the video for their latest single, “The Couple Across The Way,” off their newest release, Skinty Fia. The Polocho-directed video was idealized by frontman Grian Chatten, who is seen longingly playing an accordion on a window sill. [embedded content][embedded content] “I was living in a tiny little flat in North London with my girlfriend […]
Billie Eilish has just shared two new live videos of her recently released singles “TV” and “The 30th.” As the Happier Than Ever singer has been trotting around on her world tour, she became inspired by the Cloud Forest at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, where both of the videos were filmed. The Cloud Forest is […]
Ahead of the Oct. 21 release of its highly anticipated debut album Love Me Forever, Pinkshift shows another side of its normally guitar-driven sound with “In a Breath,” a piano ballad showcasing frontperson Ashrita Kumar’s talents. Kumar wrote the song in 2018 but has been saving it until now. “It’s a dive into my core, […]
Spoon ventures into uncharted musical territory with legendary dub producer Adrian Sherwood on Lucifer on the Moon, a dub-heavy new version of the long-running indie rock band’s latest album, Lucifer on the Sofa. The rework will be released on Nov. 4 on Matador Records. Sherwood’s “reconstruction” of the album track “On the Radio” can be […]
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ 20-night 1997 residency at the Fillmore in San Francisco will be celebrated on the new package Live at the Fillmore, due Nov. 25 on Warner Records in a variety of deluxe formats. Staged in an effort to get the Heartbreakers out of the studio and back on the live stages […]
Over eight albums and two live records, Talking Heads charted an unlikely course — moving from a tiny punk club in New York City’s East Village to the pop charts and even movie stardom. David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth, and Jerry Harrison put their unique spin on the traditional rock quartet, pulling soul music, […]
When I caught up with Mod Sun, he was lounging in bed with his new cowboy boots on and, as he tells me, doing “wonderfully”, evoking his trademark easy outlook. “Today…I felt like putting on a pair of great beat-up leather cowboy boots,” he says. “To me, one of my favorite sounds is the sound […]
Saturday Night Live kicks off its 48th season on Oct. 1. Today, the sketch comedy show announced its first three hosts and musical guests. Kendrick Lamar will open up as the season’s first musical guest, with WILLOW and Megan Thee Stallion to follow on Oct. 8 and 15h, respectively. Megan Thee Stallion will enter an elite […]
Like many musicians, Tim Burgess had big plans for 2020. The Charlatans frontman was slated to showcase a forthcoming solo album, I Love the New Sky, in an appearance at the New Colossus Festival in New York City and at SXSW in advance of the LP’s May release. Things didn’t go quite as planned, of […]