If you want to know who’s on the rise in live music, The National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) just dropped its annual cheat sheet of the most exciting up and coming artists of the past year. These aren’t just artists trending on playlists, but bona fide performers driving around the country, unglamourously roughing it, and […]
The Paul McCartney/Wings documentary Man on the Run will screen for one night only Feb. 19 at cinemas worldwide, eight days ahead of its streaming premiere on Amazon’s Prime Video. The theatrical showings will also include an exclusive, pre-recorded conversation between McCartney and director Morgan Neville. Click here for tickets. Beginning in 1970, the film […]
Lainey Wilson pulls back the curtain on her rise to country stardom in the documentary Lainey Wilson: Keepin’ Country Cool, which Netflix has acquired for an April 22 global release. The film was directed by Amy Scott and produced by Teton Ridge Entertainment, Sandbox Studios and MakeMake. Per its logline, Keepin’ Country Cool follows Wilson […]
For half a century, Sly & Robbie reached into every corner of popular music. They were reggae icons and an in-demand rhythm section and production team, working alongside Bob Marley and Peter Tosh early on, but later appearing on records by a staggering variety of artists, from Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones to Madonna […]
Molly Tuttle is a dedicated student of awesome musical traditions. She grew up on bluegrass, and has been rewarded with acclaim and Grammy awards for two consecutive albums that showcased her high lonesome songs of deep feeling and true mastery on guitar. But for the last five years, Tuttle also quietly plotted a different path, […]
No one enjoys Crispian Mills’ sense of humor more than the Kula Shaker frontman himself. His conversation is punctuated by chuckles and laced with a sly wit that I don’t recall from our previous interviews for Kula Shaker’s first two albums, K (1996) and Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts (1999). At the time, the group was […]
Lizzo’s last proper tour visited arenas and festivals in 2023, but the artist is hunkering down in much smaller musical environments next month. She’ll perform at Blue Note Jazz Club locations in Los Angeles Feb. 20-22 and New York Feb. 27-28 and March 1 as part of shows featuring “unique jazz and flute arrangements” of […]
Fans salivating for the upcoming James Cameron-directed Billie Eilish concert film will have to wait a bit longer. Per a social media post from Cameron, HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR (LIVE IN 3D) is moving from a March 20 to May 8 release as “we’re refining the cut, dialing in cool, new 3D […]
Emerging from Boulder’s eclectic music scene, MYND READER steps forward with a debut album rooted in raw rock and roll, hard-won clarity, and a renewed sense of purpose. Their self-titled record, arriving January 30, 2026, isn’t just a set of songs. It’s a reckoning, a journey pulled from personal chaos and rebuilt into something cathartic, […]
It began, like so many memorable music stories do, with a British icon and the younger upstart who loved his style. The icon was one Robert Palmer—brilliant, eclectic, a cosmopolitan gentleman of the world but criminally underrated. The upstart was a young troublemaker named Nigel John Taylor, the future bassist with Duran Duran. “I got […]