The extraordinary life of original Iron Maiden vocalist Paul Di’Anno is chronicled in the upcoming documentary Di’Anno: Iron Maiden’s Lost Singer, which will be released this summer by Cleopatra Entertainment. The project was directed, produced, written and edited by filmmaker and journalist Wes Orshoski, whose previous work includes Lemmy (about Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister) and The […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lucinda Williams has made a career out of listening to other musicians. On Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, the songwriter’s classic 1998 record, she sings, “We’d put on ZZ Top and turn ‘em up real loud,” as if it’s a mission statement. Williams has also made a run of six “jukebox” albums since 2021 […]
It wasn’t that long ago that Kenzie and Laila Crowe lived through a tornado. As the sky turned a putrid shade and sirens went off, the sisters quickly grabbed their cats, Poe (named for Edgar Allan) and Cherry (likely named for their love of all things retro) and headed into the basement of the family […]