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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This week on SPIN Presents Lipps Service, host Scott Lipps caught up with frontman of The Cult Ian Astbury, who is currently on the road touring for the first time in two years. The vocalist spoke about how he began traveling at a very young age up through joining The Cult and the band’s formation […]
System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian is teaming with augmented reality app Arloopa for the release of his new EP, Perplex Cities. Each of the five tracks will debut weekly starting today (Sept. 19) through the platform, with Tankian “appearing in the same space as the listener-viewer to explain the music and listen along.” […]
Ludacris‘ manager Chaka Zulu has been charged with murder, aggravated assault and simple battery, among other things, a number of outlets have reported. The music industry executive, whose birth name is Ahmed Obafemi, was involved in a shooting at the APT 4B restaurant in Atlanta in June where three men were shot. Officers arrived at […]