Lorenzo Molina Ruiz, who plays horns in Tex-Mex country greats The Mavericks, was attacked in the Nashville area, along with a friend, over the weekend, reportedly for speaking Spanish. "It saddens us to no end to learn of the assault on… Read More
10. “Whatever Gets You Through the Night” It seems hard to believe that this was John Lennon’s only #1 solo single in his lifetime. While fellow bandmates Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr all racked up such hits early… Read More
Jeff Tweedy, Lucius, TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, Bully, Kate Davis, Molly Burch, Sabrina Ellis + Mobley, and more will pay tribute to the late Daniel Johnston on a livestream for World Mental Health Day on October 10. The… Read More
San Francisco punks Get Dead are a band who cannot be pinned down. "Our first EP was hardcore, and then the next one was straight acoustic, almost country shit," vocalist Sam King says. "We get bored easily if we were… Read More
The White Stripes are releasing a Greatest Hits album on December 4 via Sony. This will be the duo's first ever career-spanning anthology, featuring 26 songs from throughout their 14-year run. The tracklist is being kept hush-hush for the moment,… Read More
Margo Price, Robyn Hitchcock and Emma Swift, Rosanne Cash, Bully, John McCauley and Vanessa Carlton, Rodney Crowell, Caitlin Rose, Tristen, Lillie Mae, Erin Rae, and many more musicians will play Music for Marquita, a live virtual telethon that's raising money for the… Read More
Death, the latest release from the formidable Portland, Oregon instrumental group Coastlands, arrives on 9 October via Translation Loss in the United States and Dunk! Records in Europe. Rather than serving as a grim reminder of the eventual vacating of… Read More
The title of Staten Island-based instrumental funk group Budos Band’s upcoming 15th-anniversary album, Long in the Tooth, is a perhaps obvious but no less satisfying piece of wordplay that speaks to both the group’s longevity and style. Evocations of the… Read More
The Saturday Night Live season 46 premiere was last night (10/3) with host Chris Rock and musical guest Megan Thee Stallion. As you'd expect, the cold open parodied the recent presidential debate between Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) and Joe Biden… Read More
Megan Thee Stallion is having Thee Greatest Year, despite…well, everything. After a stellar showing on HBO Max’s Legendary, serving up one of the year’s best quarantine awards show performances at the 2020 BET Awards, and inciting a global mop and… Read More