Melissa Etheridge, who’s currently seeing pandemic-era success with her Etheridge TV live-streaming subscription platform, discusses her whole life and career on the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. Among many other topics — including her time with Bruce Springsteen, navigating interviews in the days before she came out as …
Read More »Cyndi Lauper, Jason Isbell and More to Play at Recording Academy Special Merit Awards
The Recording Academy will honor the 2020 Special Merit Award recipients with Great Performances: Grammy Salute to Music Legends, a televised awards ceremony and tribute concert. Hosted by Jimmy Jam, the event will air Friday, October 16th at 9:00 p.m. ET on PBS. The 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award honorees, as …
Read More »Trey Anastasio Pays Tribute to Toots Hibbert: 'I've Loved His Music My Entire Life'
Phish’s Trey Anastasio — who collaborated with Frederick “Toots” Hibbert on a new version of the Maytals’ “Sweet and Dandy” in 2003 — penned a tribute to the reggae legend following Hibbert’s death Saturday. “I was so sad to wake up this morning and hear about the passing of Toots …
Read More »Modern English Announce Livestream Concert to Celebrate 40th Anniversary
Modern English will broadcast a virtual concert celebrating their 40th anniversary on September 25th and 26th. The performance will air at 8:30 p.m. ET on the 25th and 8:30 p.m. PT on the 26th, as well as 8:30 p.m. in U.K. European and Asian time zones on the 26th. The …
Read More »Andre 3000, Jeff Tweedy Ponder Final Song They'd Hear Before They Die in New Book
In his new book One Last Song, journalist Mike Ayers asks an array of artists an intriguing, but rarely considered question from the endless realm of pop music hypotheticals: If you could choose the last song you’d hear before you died, what would it be? The book, out October 13th …
Read More »Jacquees Returns With 'Exit 68' Mixtape
Jacquees celebrated Labor Day by releasing a new mixtape,Exit 68, on SoundCloud. The 16-track collection is dedicated to the highway exit near where the R&B singer grew up in Decatur, Georgia. Jacquees doesn’t deviate from his typical formula here: Slow tempos, melismatic vocals that reach back to Lloyd, Avant, and …
Read More »Flashback: Bob Dylan Guests at 1983 Rick Danko/Levon Helm Club Gig
Unless something very big changes in the next couple of months, 2020 will go down in history as the first year since 1977 that Bob Dylan didn’t perform live even a single time. This obviously isn’t by choice. He was supposed to play Japan in April and then travel across …
Read More »R.E.M., Phoebe Bridgers, Hayley Williams Appear on Voting Rights Compilation
R.E.M., Phoebe Bridgers, Hayley Williams and more appear on the new compilationGood Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, available on Friday for 24 hours only as part of the Bandcamp Fridaysseries. The star-studded, 40-track comp boasts previously unreleased songs, demos, covers and remixes. It includes a live version …
Read More »Kevin Morby Previews New LP With 'Campfire' Video Featuring Waxahatchee
Kevin Morby has shared “Campfire,” the first offering from his new album Sundowner, out October 16th via Dead Oceans. Directed by Johnny Eastlund and Dylan Isbell, the video features Morby at Castle Rock in Kansas — playing guitar and surrounded by limestone. He meets up with his partner, Katie Crutchfield …
Read More »Aluna Celebrates Dance in the Desert in 'Envious' Video
Aluna (of AlunaGeorge) has released the video for “Envious,” the fourth single from her upcoming debut solo album Renaissance. Directed by Hamadou Frederic Balde, the video shows Aluna and a group of dancers taking over a desert brush setting at sunset, with animated effects sprinkled throughout. “I think people really …
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