Writer/filmmaker Cameron Crowe celebrated the release of his Avid Reader Press memoir, The Uncool, last night (Oct. 29) with an event at New York’s Symphony Space, during which he read an Allman Brothers Band-focused chapter from the project and also sat for a conversation with Roots drummer and fellow music nerd Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. The […]
Combing under the 30-foot-high marble dome encasing Jimi Hendrix’s grave, ghost hunter Ken Arnold scans AM/FM radio frequencies with his SB11 Spirit Box. Nothing but static fizzles from the device speaker. No signs of Jimi arise. No purple or purple adjacent haze of violet or boysenberry. No one ’scusing themselves to kiss the sky. No […]
Tame Impala made up for lost time Monday (Oct. 27) at Brooklyn, N.Y.’s Barclays Center, as the Kevin Parker-led Australian band debuted nine songs from their new album, Deadbeat, at their first proper show since March 2023. Performing in the round for the first time, Tame Impala was at times nearly drowned out by the […]
Tool, My Chemical Romance, Shinedown and Bring Me the Horizon will headline the next Sonic Temple festival at Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, Oh., which will take place May 14-17. Pierce the Veil, Breaking Benjamin, the Offspring, Staind, Good Charlotte, Godsmack and Megadeth will further anchor the bill. Sonic Temple drew 175,000 fans to this […]
Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil will celebrate his upcoming induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with a memoir, A Screaming Life: Into the Superunknown With Soundgarden and Beyond. The book was co-written with Adam Tepedelen and will be released May 19, 2026, by Harper Collins. “It tells my story as an American son […]
The members of Bay Area hip-hop group Souls of Mischief—Tajai, Phesto, A-Plus and Opio—were still in high school when they started recording with fellow Hieroglyphics crewmate Del the Funky Homosapien. They were so young, in fact, they needed their parents’ permission to participate in an overnight recording session for “Burnt,” the B-side to Del’s “Mistadobalina.” […]
Rosalía delivers a stunning first sample from her upcoming Columbia album, LUX, in the form of the Nicolás Méndez-directed, Warsaw-set video for “Berghain,” which features vocals from Björk and Yves Tumor. In the highly surreal clip, Rosalía is enveloped first by orchestra musicians and then a menagerie of animals as she moves from her apartment […]
The best concert albums bring home the excitement of the live experience. Though the songs might not sound as polished as the studio versions, live records present us with different iterations of music that have continued to gestate long after the producer has applied the finishing touches. On triple-live album Cornucopia Live, released October 24, […]
Tortoise has done a lot in their 30+ years as a band. In the ‘90s, they became standard-bearers of the Chicago scene, their unusual instrumentation (three percussionists, two bassists) and eclectic palette (jazz, dub, EDM, prog) helping define a major wing of the instrumental post-rock genre. Their expansive 1998 album, TNT, with its cover doodle […]
While in the midst of a world tour in support of their spring album RUSHMERE, Mumford & Sons have treated fans to a new song, “Rubber Band Man,” which features a first-time studio collaboration with Hozier. The track was produced by the National’s Aaron Dessner at this Long Pond Studio in Hudson, N.Y. Mumford recorded […]