It’s been a busy news week. The Grammys. The upcoming Super Bowl. The Winter Olympics kicking off. That insane Australian Open final. We’re swimming in “water cooler moments”—the kind of cultural events everyone is supposed to care about. And I love seeing great artists, colleagues, and teams win. With hundreds of awards, the Grammys are […]
Bad Bunny has been readying himself for his headlining performance at the Super Bowl LX Halftime Show on Sunday (Feb. 8) in Santa Clara, Ca., by “eating Smashburgers” and thinking about the details so much that it is causing him insomnia. The Puerto Rican superstar told Apple Music today that “last night I couldn’t sleep […]
The Black Keys cover songs popularized by George Thorogood, R.L. Burnside, Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup and Dr. Feelgood on their 14th studio album, Peaches, which is due May 1 from frontman Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound label through Warner. Their cover of Thorogood’s “You Got To Lose” is out now in tandem with an E.J. […]
Hot Chip frontman Alexis Taylor gets a lift from a wide range of guests on his new solo album, Paris in the Spring, which will arrive March 13 on Night Time Stories. They include Air’s Nicolas Godin, the Avalanches, Scritti Politti’s Green Gartside, Étienne de Crécy, Lola Kirke and Pale Blue’s Elizabeth Wight. The track “Out of […]
One of the delights of the prior Ratboys album, 2023’s The Window, is that I could recommend it to almost any indie rock fan. You like beautiful Americana? Ratboys. Fuzzy alternative rock? Ratboys. Pop-punk? Ratboys. Occasional noisy jams? Ratboys. It was such a fun grab-bag that I figured it couldn’t last. I assumed The Window […]
Some albums arrive on the scene with fireworks and a tagline. REDEMPTION enters the chat by saying the thing that was never said out loud. Karey Lee Woolsey, a singer-songwriter releasing music under the name Karey Lee, released the record on January 2. The entry point is plain: these songs come from lived time. Marketing […]
Now Hear This is a monthly A&R column that provides you with exciting new sounds we discovered through the innovative new music discovery platform Groover. Each month, you can expect a varied bouillabaisse of songs from a vast spectrum of artists from all over the globe, regardless of genre or geography. This month, SPIN has […]
Bruce Hornsby welcomes the late Bob Weir, Bonnie Raitt, Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig and Blake Mills on his new album, Indigo Park, which will arrive April 3 from Zappo Productions/Thirty Tigers. The 10-track set was produced by Hornsby with Tony Berg and Will Maclellan is led by its groovy, nostalgic title track, which can be […]
Jay Buchanan is a lover, not a fighter. If you spend some time listening to the soul-stirring songs he’s made with blues rock band Rival Sons, you’ll find a window into his heart. The blistering “Electric Man” comes off like a love letter to the very craft of rock ‘n roll while “Shooting Stars” (recently […]
Musician/actor/Travis Scott collaborator Dua Saleh gets a lift from Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon on several songs pegged for their new album, Of Earth & Wires, which will be released May 15 on Ghostly International. “Flood” and “Glow” are out now and can be sampled below, while Vernon appears on the yet-to-be-revealed track “Keep Away.” Of […]