Chris Cornell transformed a pair of Johnny Cash poems into a heart-wrenching acoustic ballad, “You Never Knew My Mind.” The ballad is the late Soundgarden singer’s contribution toa collection of Cash’s unrecorded poetry, lyrics and lettersput to music calledForever Words. “You Never Knew My Mind,” premiered on Zane Lowe’s Beats …
Read More »Dua Lipa: 'New Rules' Singer Opens Up About Bad Exes, Kosovo Roots
Some dudes on Saturday Night Live’s crew are hammering together a green screen at Studio 8H when Dua Lipa walks past them in a long black dress, steps onto a stage, and seats herself atop a grand piano, dangling her legs from the end like a lounge act. It’s the …
Read More »Toto Plan Career-Spanning Limited Edition Box Set 'All In'
Toto will rerelease and remaster the majority of their catalog for the limited edition box set All In, a massive 13-CD, 17-LP collection that includes two discs of unreleased material. All In, available to preorder now through April 10th ahead of its fall release, will include the band’s first 10 …
Read More »Radiohead Plot U.S. Summer Tour
Radiohead will return to the United States for additional arena shows promoting their latest album, A Moon Shaped Pool. The short tour takes place mostly in the northeast, kicking off July 7th in Chicago and wrapping up August 1st in Philadelphia. Radiohead will make multiple appearances in New York City, …
Read More »Review: Margo Price Brings Spontaneity, Attitude to Lunch Hour Gig
Margo Price playing an intimate full-band set for a small crowd of friends and radio-ticket-giveaway winners in the Blue Room at Jack White’s Third Man Records is a pretty only-in-Nashville-style way to spend a lunch break. What’s perhaps even more notable about the singer’s show early Thursday afternoon – recorded …
Read More »Ryan Adams Delivers Valentine's Day Gift With New Song 'Baby I Love You'
Ryan Adams delivered a Valentine’s Day gift to fans with new song “Baby I Love You,” the singer’s first track since releasingPrisoner in February 2017.The song’s accompanying visual was directed by Brook Linder. “Baby I Love You” – which is not a cover of the Ronettes classic – is similar …
Read More »See Paul Rudd, Jimmy Fallon Remake Go West's 'King of Wishful Thinking'
Paul Rudd and Jimmy Fallon teamed for a shot-for-shot recreation of Go West’s “King of Wishful Thinking” music video on Friday’s Tonight Show. It’s become tradition for the Ant-Man actor and the late-night host to remake decades-old videos when Rudd visits the Tonight Show; in April 2016, Rudd and Fallon …
Read More »Flashback: Journey Learn 'The Road Ain't No Place to Start a Family'
Journey were just six days into their U.S. tour in support of 1981’s Escape when keyboardist Jonathan Cain began feeling homesick. The previous year he’d quit the Babys to replace founding keyboardist Gregg Rolie in Journey, and on the strength of singles like “Open Arms,” “Who’s Crying Now” and “Don’t …
Read More »Hear Thurston Moore Slam Trump Administration in New Song 'Mx Liberty'
Thurston Moore wades into the political fray on his new track “Mx Liberty,” which he describes as “a punk rock broadside to the current man-boys of the USA government in response to their mockery of democracy.” “Mx Liberty” relies on a Stooges-like groove with barbed, repetitive guitars and bruising drums. …
Read More »Primus, Mastodon Plot U.S. Summer Tour
Primus and Mastodon will unite this summer for a massive U.S. tour. The co-headlining, 43-date trek launches May 6th in Morrison, Colorado and concludes July 7th in Phoenix. The joint trek promotes the bands’ respective 2017 projects. Last year, Mastodon released their seventh LP, Emperor of Sand, and a follow-up …
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