Throwback rockersGreta Van Fleet will release their debut studio album, Anthem of the Peaceful Army, on October 19th via Lava/Republic Records. Penned by all four members of the Frankenmuth, Michigan outfit – brothers Jake Kiszka (guitar), Sam Kiszka (bass, keys), Josh Kiszka (vocals) and their friend alongside drummer Danny Wagner …
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Joy Williams is not afraid to take pauses: in life, on stage, or even now, speaking as she reclines on a large emerald green couch in her Nashville living room. At this moment, she’s pondering the passage of time, something that has temporarily taken on its own hourglass-within-an-hourglass as she …
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When Tom Petty died in October 2017, he left behind a vault overflowing with hundreds of hours of unheard music. Much of it came from concerts, but there were also tons of demos, alternative versions of album tracks and even tunes he discarded completely over the years that have never …
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Thom Yorke unveiled an uncanny new piano ballad, “Suspirium,” from hisupcoming soundtrack to Luca Guadagnino’s remake of the 1977 Italian horror film, Suspiria. Yorke’s soundtrack will be released October 26th via XL Recordings, while the film arrives November 2nd. On “Suspirium,” Yorke crafts a spellbinding mood with an eerie edge …
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Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced during Aretha Franklin‘s funeral Friday that he has entered a motion to rename the city’s waterfront Chene Park “Aretha Franklin Park.” “When performers from around the world come here, they are going to know this is the home of the Queen of Soul,” Duggan said …
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There’s a secret behind the last three decades of pop music: Writer-producers run the show. This is partially a numbers game — Whitney Houston had an inimitable voice, but Babyface had a hand in over 200 R&B hits, so who exerted more influence over the direction of a genre? When …
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In Rolling Stone‘s “Song Breakdown” video, Stephen Colbert unearths two unlikely inspirations for Chance the Rapper‘s “Favorite Song” (featuring Childish Gambino): legendary fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien and Victorian-era theatrical team Gilbert and Sullivan. “I just want to talk about one verse of the song that really has three very distinctive …
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Taylor Swift warmly embraced her Nashville roots during the Music City stop of her Reputation Tour. Performing at Nissan Stadium, the pop superstar recalled how she and her mother attended CMA Music Festival at the venue as everyday fans soon after moving to Nashville from Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. In 2011, she’d …
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On his first solo project since 2013, Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnaldsadds a new element – robots! – to his mix of post-minimalist repetition, indie swoon, film score frisson and ambient drifts.Re: Memberis a conversation between Arnaldsand algorithms, the programmed and the human, his own intentions and new inspirations, composed with …
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“What you gonna do with that pistol?” asks one brother to another in a chilling new short film inspired by Lucero‘s “Long Way Back Home” and starring Academy Award-nominated actor Michael Shannon. Directed by Jeff Nichols, the brother of Lucero frontman Ben Nichols, and shot in Lucero’s hometown of Memphis, …
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