Having already won a best original song Academy Award for his work with The Muppets, Flight of the Conchords co-founder Bret McKenzie continues stretching beyond his beloved duo’s comedy-driven folk rock on his debut solo album, Songs Without Jokes, which is out on August 26 via Sub Pop. The project was produced by longtime Flight […]
Death Cab for Cutie has unveiled “Roman Candles,” the first taste of music from its next studio album, Asphalt Meadows, due out on September 16 from Atlantic. The track is a bit discordant (and brief) by Death Cab standards, as it rides a variety of loud and distorted noises underneath frontman Ben Gibbard’s signature vocals […]
In a bill straight out of the alternative rock heyday of the early 1990s, The Smashing Pumpkins and Jane’s Addiction will team for a fall arena tour dubbed Spirits on Fire, kicking off Oct. 2 in Dallas. The Pumpkins broke the news this morning (May 11) on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show and will also perform […]
A long-rumored collaboration between producer Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) and The Roots rapper/lyricist Black Thought (Tariq Trotter) that has been in the works for more than a decade will finally see the light of day this summer. The pair’s album, Cheat Codes, is due Aug. 12 from BMG and is led by its first single […]
What a run it was. Apple announced on Tuesday that after 20 years, it will no longer make any new iPods. Though the company hasn’t been making them like it did during its mid-2000s glory years (iPod Touches are the only ones currently available for purchase), it’s noteworthy due to the impact it made during […]
A few weeks ago, Wilco announced that its 12th studio album, Cruel Country, will be released later this month. Today, the band shared a second song from the project, “Tired of Taking It Out on You,” the lyrics of which focus on self-introspection. In a statement, frontman Jeff Tweedy elaborated: “I’ve realized over the years […]
Red Hot Chili Peppers, P!nk, The Chicks, Kacey Musgraves, SZA, Flume, Paramore and Lil Nas X lead the lineup for this year’s ACL Festival, which will be held the weekends of Oct. 7-9 and 14-16 across nine stages at Austin’s Zilker Park. Lil Nas X’s participation comes after he tweeted last month that he wouldn’t […]
U2 frontman Bono has announced a Nov. 1 release date for his memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, which is “the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him,” according to publisher Alfred A. Knopf. The book is so named because […]
The wacky world of the little yellow Minions from the Despicable Me film franchise will be enhanced by the suitably eclectic soundtrack to the movie Minions: The Rise of Gru, which hits theaters July 1. The film is set in the 1970s and tells the origin story of super-villain Gru, so it’s only natural that […]
Angel Olsen has announced that her forthcoming album Big Time will be released alongside an accompanying film made in collaboration with director Kimberly Stuckwisch. Stuckwisch previously worked with Olsen on the video for her collaboration with Sharon Van Etten, “Like I Used To.” As part of Amazon Music’s Pride Month programming, the film will premiere […]