While Pearl Jam plots its next move following the summer departure of longtime drummer Matt Cameron, frontman Eddie Vedder is making his maiden solo voyage across the Pacific. Vedder will play four theater shows in Japan this spring on April 14 in Nagoya (Forest Hall), April 16 in Osaka (Festival Hall), April 17 in Kyoto […]
Band Of Horses’ beloved 2006 Sub Pop debut, Everything All the Time, will be bolstered with rare and unreleased tracks for its 20th anniversary edition, which will be out March 20 from Sub Pop. They include the group’s hard-to-find 2005 Tour EP, demos and its contribution to The O.C., “The End’s Not Near.” The first […]
Roxanne Shanté is listening to her Juice Crew partner Masta Ace talk about RZA’s upcoming EP, Juice Crew, when she has an a-ha moment. Unbeknownst to her, RZA had started the project years ago to accompany the 2017 release of the Shanté biopic Roxanne Roxanne. Suddenly it all clicked. Song titles like “Single Mothers,” “Lolita,” […]
Dry Cleaning singer Florence Shaw likes to keep some distance between her vocals and the rest of the band. Shaw’s curious confidences, spoken-word confessions, and bemused monologues appear to have only a passing relationship to the propulsive rhythms and brittle riffs that frame them. That dissonance can be striking at first, but it grows restrictive–stark […]
Bob Weir, who joined the Grateful Dead on guitar and vocals at the age of 16 and then spent the next 60 years helping shepherd its legacy, died today (Jan. 10) at the age of 78. According to a social media post from his family, the jam band legend was diagnosed with cancer in July […]
Phish leader Trey Anastasio is among the many musicians saluting the life of Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir, who died Saturday (Jan. 10) at the age of 78. Anastasio played on several occasions with Weir over the past 30-plus years, the most high-profile of which was at the Dead’s 50th anniversary Fare Thee Well concerts […]
“Every time I want to stop, I remember there’s someone somewhere who is silently inspired by the things I do and that motivates me to keep going.” – Victoria Ibek If you ask emerging vocalist, songwriter and beat maker Victoria Ibek what her favorite music genre is, she’ll tell you she’s a #1 fan of […]
When not busy bashing his former Smiths bandmates, making controversial statements about immigration and terrorism and canceling or postponing some 200 shows in the past decade-plus, Morrissey has found time to complete his first album in nearly six years, Make-Up Is a Lie. It will be released Feb. 27 through Sire, to which the Smiths […]
Megan Moroney gets a lift from Ed Sheeran (on the song “I Only Miss You”) and Kacey Musgraves (on “Bells & Whistles”) on her upcoming album, Cloud 9, which will be released Feb. 20 by Sony Music Nashville/Columbia. The artist broke the news in a video to fans, which can be seen below. The 15-track […]
When four esteemed underground music veterans joined forces in 1997 to record their Thrill Jockey debut album as Pullman, their entirely acoustic, overdub-free sound was a surprising but welcome contrast to the vastly more experimental work that Ken (formerly Bundy K.) Brown, Doug McCombs, Chris Brokaw and Curtis Harvey had been making for years in […]