The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music will pay tribute to Dionne Warwick, Patti Smith, Dr. Dre, the E Street Band and the Doors at its fourth annual American Music Honors, which will take place April 18 at Pollak Theatre on the campus of Monmouth University in West Long Branch, N.J. A posthumous […]
MUNA balances loneliness and euphoria on “Dancing on the Wall,” the lead single and title track from its fourth studio album. The project will be released May 8 through Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory label through Secretly Group. The Katie Gavin-led trio calls “Dancing on the Wall” “possibly our favorite song we’ve made as a band. […]
Jimmy Eat World will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its breakthrough album, Bleed American, on an extensive tour beginning June 9 at Red Rocks outside Denver and concluding with Nov. 14-15 Orlando, Fl., stops on the revived Vans Warped Tour, for which the band will appear at all five dates. The tour also boasts Jimmy […]
By 2002, Philly-bred emcee Bahamadia was already established among the hip-hop elite. After jumpstarting her career as a DJ, she caught Gang Starr rapper Guru’s attention for her work on the Funky Vibes EP. Her 1996 debut, Kollage, landed on the Billboard 200 and peaked at No. 13 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, anchored […]
Laughter in Summer is a whisper of an album. It feels like the embrace of a warm summer day, a wispy dalliance with joy. However, the origins of the record stem from news that would push most into darkness. In 2024, musician and trans activist Beverly Glenn-Copeland revealed he had been diagnosed with dementia. Rather […]
Eugene Hütz got his first taste of faraway New York in 1989. He was just 14 then and growing up in Ukraine, when an uncompromising rock band called Sonic Youth exploded his mind with waves of experimental sound, hot-rodded guitars, and avant-garde tunes. Two decades before starting his own band, Gogol Bordello, Hütz discovered his […]
Guns N’ Roses closed out Appetite for Destruction, their 1987 debut, with… well, a bang. According to rock ‘n roll lore, during sessions in New York for “Rocket Queen,” the band flew in a stripper who had been dating drummer Steven Adler for a few months. He wasn’t at the studio that day, but Slash […]
Anna Calvi shares the mic with Iggy Pop, Laurie Anderson and the National’s Matt Berninger on her new EP, Is This All There Is?, which Domino will release on March 20. The set, which is the first in a planned trilogy of new music, also includes a previously released cover of Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s “I […]
Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood is demanding a portion of the score he wrote for the 2017 Paul Thomas Anderson film Phantom Thread be removed from the recent documentary Melania. “It has come to our attention that a piece of music from Phantom Thread has been used in the Melania documentary,” reads a statement attributed to both […]
Staffed by Turkish, Indonesian and Dutch members, Altın Gün have always favored tunings and tonalities exotic to Anglo-American ears. Utilizing a saz (a long-necked lute played in Eastern Europe, the Levant and Asia) as lead instrument adds distinctive flavor to their respectful yet non-rote modernizations of Turkish folk classics and to their own serpentine compositions. […]