If you’ve found yourself having just too good a time lately and need that to come to an end, hotfoot it to New Order, the new ordeal from Mexican director Michel Franco. In just 86 brisk, effectively brutalizing minutes, any tentative optimism you might have been feeling — say, due …
Read More »A Week of John Prine Tribute Concerts Is Coming to Nashville
UPDATE (9/8): The “You Got Gold” tribute shows to John Prine, originally scheduled for October 3rd through 10th, have been postponed until 2022 because of the ongoing pandemic. The Prine family and Oh Boy Records announced the date change on Wednesday. “This decision to reschedule was not made lightly. We …
Read More »Crosby, Stills and Nash Talk 'Deja vu,' Why a Reunion Won't Happen on 'CBS Sunday Morning'
David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash talked — separately — about the 50th anniversary of CSNY’s Déjà Vu, the recording of the 1970 classic and why the band will likely never reunite on CBS Sunday Morning. Following the LP’s recent reissue, Stills reminisced about the “chaotic,” contentious recording sessions. …
Read More »Chrissie Hynde Brings It All Back Home on Her Dylan Covers LP 'Standing in the Doorway'
Chrissie Hynde proved the bona fides of her Bob Dylan fandom decades ago. She sang “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” with him onstage at Wembley Stadium in ’84 and serenaded him with her own jaw-dropping, gospel-tinged rendition of “I Shall Be Released” at his 30th anniversary concert in ’91. …
Read More »Ryan Culwell and Aubrie Sellers Cover Nine Inch Nails' 'Head Like a Hole'
Like Johnny Cash and Rick Rubin before them, Ryan Culwell and Aubrie Sellers reimagine a Nine Inch Nails song with chilling results. The two against-the-grain Nashville songwriters cover the 1990 single “Head Like a Hole” as a somber, haunted duet. The pair released the song on Thursday with an accompanying …
Read More »Blake Shelton Announces 'Friends and Heroes 2021' Tour Dates
Blake Shelton has announced plans to revive his Friends and Heroes Tour for 2021, assembling a multi-generational group of supporting guests to join him. The trek kicks off August 18th in Omaha, Nebraska, the same city where the Voice coach was forced to cancel the remainder of his Friends and …
Read More »Op-Ed: Spotify's New 'Discovery Mode' Is Just Payola
Getting discovered in the music business has never been easy. Before the pandemic, artists could at least rely on the industry’s historic mainstay to break through — playing as many gigs as possible and hoping to build a following. But with that path closed for now, artists and their label …
Read More »Kings of Leon Plot 2021 Summer Tour
Kings of Leon are set to launch a North American tour this summer in support of their most recent album, When You See Yourself. The 26-show trek will kick off August 3rd at the iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Florida, and wrap October 3rd at the Sunlight Supply …
Read More »Brooklyn Rapper Mike Floats Above Worldly Concerns on 'Crystal Ball'
It can be difficult to feel like a tourist in your own city. In booming metropolises like New York, the pace of transformation is often unnerving. That is, unless you’re the musician Mike, whose perceptive and patient raps seem unmoored from worldly concerns. The 22-year-old Brooklyn rapper and producer started …
Read More »John Stamos, Chimp Enjoy Wild Night at Strip Club in the Offspring's 'We Never Have Sex Anymore' Video
John Stamos and a chimpanzee enjoy a wild night at the strip club in the new video for the Offspring’s “We Never Have Sex Anymore.” The video spotlights a married couple — played by a pair of chimps — going through the boring motions of day-to-day life. The husband, fed …
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