After wrapping up their yearlong Las Vegas residency in April 2019, Backstreet Boys have set dates for their 2019 DNA World Tour, their biggest arena trek in 18 years, in support of their upcoming new album DNA. The DNA World Tour opens in Europe in May before heading to North …
Read More »
“I love Coldplay!” Ryley Walker yells in the middle of a crowded bar in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood. “There, I said it.” It’s been a long journey to get to this point, but after years of disavowing his passion for bands like Coldplay, Switchfoot and DC Talk in order to …
Read More »
Beginning with 1979’s acrimonious Broken English, Marianne Faithfull has spent the last four decades gracefully transitioning into the Grande Dame of Melancholy, the High Priestess of Dusky Rock, capable of bridging the chasm between Kurt Weill’s dramatic ballads and the gothy rock of artists like Nick Cave and PJ Harvey. …
Read More »
On October 3rd, Michele McLaughlin got some exciting news: Her music has been streamed over one billion times. Young artists in popular genres are racking up streams like crazy these days — presumably McLaughlin is an ascendant rapper releasing 90-second battering rams through SoundCloud? Or maybe she’s the guest vocalist …
Read More »
In the spring of 1982, Ozzy Osbourne‘s life changed in an instant. In the years since Black Sabbath had fired him, in 1979, he’d picked himself up again, put out two successful albums that helped redefine heavy metal and garnered a following that rivaled that of his previous band. A …
Read More »
Ozzy Osbourne may be the self-proclaimed “Prince of Darkness” when he’s onstage singing hits like “Bark at the Moon” and “Paranoid,” but it was a much sweeter scene backstage before he went on at his tour kickoff earlier this year. When we visited Osbourne at Allentown, Pennsylvania’s PPL Center, his …
Read More »
On Wednesday night, the Mac Miller Circles Fund hosted a tribute concert in the late rapper’s memory. It was a star-studded event — Mac was a near universally beloved figure in hip-hop — featuring artists like SZA, Chance The Rapper, Rae Sremmurd and Travis Scott. It also featured video interstitials, …
Read More »
Across the Dominican Republic and New York City, a community of underground musicologists and engineers have committed themselves to transforming cars, vans and SUVs into gargantuan, roving speaker systems. These custom automobiles and their music-obsessed makers were profiled in a short film, Más Fuerte, released in conjunction with Presidente. Sean …
Read More »
Sharon Van Etten blends past and present in the frenetic new video for her recent single, “Comeback Kid.” The track will appear on Van Etten’s forthcoming album, Remind Me Tomorrow, out January 18th via Jagjaguwar. Jonathan William Turner directed the video, in which Van Etten bellows the blistering, synth-heavy cut …
Read More »
In October 2017,Candi Staton was at a Nashville recording studio, working on a new song called “The Prize Is Not Worth the Pain.” As her band stretched out the disco-funk tune into an extended jam, the singer began improvising phrases and one-liners. At the very end, Staton eventually arrived at …
Read More »