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 […]
In her poem “Reconciliation, A Prayer,” former U.S. Poet Laureate and Muskogee Creek musician Joy Harjo wrote “All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.” Indigenous women in music are fighting for justice through courageous acts of kindness. Here are six bright lights making powerful impacts with their art and activism. 1. […]
Guns N’ Roses are giving their simultaneous 1991 albums Use Your Illusion I & II the deluxe boxed set treatment in a variety of incarnations on Nov. 11, all of which feature the original releases remastered from high-resolution 96kHz 24-bit transfers from the stereo 1/2-inch analog master tapes. The Super Deluxe 7-CD + Blu-ray and […]
Angel Olsen has extended her tour in support of the recent album Big Time with 18 new U.S. dates, beginning Jan. 20 in Atlanta and wrapping Feb. 11 in Durham, N.C. Erin Rae will support. Big Time reached No. 4 on Billboard’s Top Folk Albums chart and No. 8 on its Top Alternative Albums tally. […]
Margo Price has drafted Sharon Van Etten, Lucius and former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell for her next album, Strays, which arrives Jan. 13 from Loma Vista Recordings. First single “Change of Heart” is out now. Inspired by “a six-day, mushroom-filled trip” Price and her husband Jeremy Ivey took to South Carolina […]
There’s both good and bad news for White Lung fans this morning, as the band has announced it will stop making music together, but not before releasing a final new album. Premonition will arrive Dec. 2 via Domino Recording Company. Two tracks from the album, “Date Night” and “Tomorrow,” are out now and both are […]
Elvis Costello has never been shy about testing out new and interesting concepts with his recordings and live shows, and he’s got another trick up his sleeve early next year. The artist will stage 100 songs and More, a 10-night residency at New York’s Gramercy Theatre from Feb. 9-22, with the first five encompassing solo […]
“Some of the stuff that’s in [the book] was written knowing that I may never play music again,” says Dave Alvin, chatting from his home in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood. “Or I may…. I may be dead.” The book is New Highway: Selected Lyrics, Poems, Prose, Essays, Eulogies and Blues, a collection by the […]
The Smashing Pumpkins will release their next album, a three-act rock opera dubbed ATUM (pronounced “autumn”), in three different installments over the next five months, and are previewing the 33-track project with “Beguiled,” which is out now. The Pumpkins gave fans a preview of “Beguiled” earlier on Tuesday when they took to TikTok to perform […]