Category: Music

Pat Smear To Miss Foo Fighters Shows After Breaking Foot

Longtime Foo Fighters guitarist Pat Smear will miss three of the band’s upcoming shows after “smashing the shit out of his left foot” in “the classic tradition of rockstars having bizarre gardening accidents,” according to a social media post. Multi-instrumentalist Jason Falkner, who has played with Beck and St. Vincent and was also a member […]

January 7, 2026
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Cameron Crowe Will Say Anything

When you’ve led a life like Cameron Crowe, you’re bound to keep everything. Backstage passes from touring with Led Zeppelin in 1973. Four hours of tapes from an interview with Pete Townshend at the Quadrophenia tour kickoff the same year. A legendary note from Gregg Allman written on Miyako Hotel letterhead in which he threatened […]

January 7, 2026
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WILD WOMAN

“My hand broke, ‘coz I was trying to keep my head from hitting the metal,” says Amanda Shires, wildcat of alt-country-rock. She splays her claws and runs a finger up the damage zone. “Feel any different playing instruments after?” I ask. After all, she’s been a pro-fiddler since joining the Texas Playboys at 15. “Yeah, […]

January 7, 2026
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THE PRODIGIOUS SON

A quarter century since the passing of his father — beloved Cockney poet, punk, and actor Ian Dury — there is much that unites the sound of vocalist-composer Baxter Dury to his dad. And more that does not. Especially now that Baxter’s dry, witty brand of sing-speak is married to the bubbling-over electronic music of […]

January 6, 2026
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A$AP Rocky Enlists Winona Ryder, Thundercat For ‘Punk’ Video

A$AP Rocky has dropped another new single, “Punk Rocky,” ahead of the Jan. 16 release of Don’t Be Dumb, his first album in eight years. The accompanying video stars Winona Ryder, Danny Elfman, Thundercat and A$AP Nast and introduces five of Rocky’s six Don’t Be Dumb-specific alter egos, who are apparently named GR1M, RUGAHAND, BABUSHKA […]

January 5, 2026
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