Florence and the Machineannounced a North American tour, which kicks off this summer and continues through the fall. St. Vincent, Lizzo, Kamasi Washington, Grizzly Bear, Perfume Genius, Beth Ditto, Billie Eilish and Wet will open for the band on various dates. The 23-date tour begins at Osheaga in Montreal, QC, …
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Mitski will release her fifth studio album, Be the Cowboy, on August 17th via Dead Oceans. The indie rocker previewed the LP with romantic lead single “Geyser” and its striking, minimalist video. “You’re the one I want, and I’ve turned down every hand that has beckoned me to come,” she …
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Guitar virtuoso Ry Cooder has spent the majority of his 50-year career as one of the country’s most vital communal historians and champions of roots music, illuminating and reanimating everything from bolero to bluegrass. Over the past decade or so, Cooder has also emerged out of his group of Sixties …
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Nine Inch Nails will release their ninth studio album, Bad Witch, on June 22nd. The six-track LP – their first full-length since 2013’s Hesitation Marks – is billed as the final installment of a trilogy, following 2016’sNot the Actual Eventsand 2017’sAdd Violence.Bad Witch is currently available for pre-order in all …
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Phil Collins announced his first major North American tour in 12 years. The 15-date “Not Dead Yet, Live!” launches October 5th in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and concludes October 28th in Los Angeles. The tour, titled after his 2016 memoirNot Dead Yet, is billed as a celebration of Collins’ career. Citi …
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It’s been so long since onetime 120 Minutes mainstays Belly put out an album, that a rapper with the same moniker now dominates Google searches for the word “Belly.” That lack of activity has relegated a band that put out a Gold album (1994’s Star), scored a video hit with …
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Leon Bridges, 28, grew up listening to Ginuwine and Usher, developed as a songwriter on the Fort Worth, Texas open mic circuit, and got his break hooking up with half of Austin indie-prog-whatever quartet White Denim. None of this sounds like a recipe for retro soul, but Bridges filled his …
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UDATE:Mike love shared a get-well note for his cousin and former bandmate, Brian Wilson, after the former Beach Boy postponed a handful of live dates to undergo back surgery. “I know what it’s like to have the (Wilson) back gene,” Love wrote on Facebookalongside a picture of himself and Wilson …
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Brothers Osborne released their long-awaited sophomore LP Port Saint Joe on Friday, a freewheeling, captivating record that features blistering guitar fireworks from John Osborne, as on lead single “Shoot Me Straight.” But the LP also includes its share of moving ballads, like the jazzy, soulful love song “A Little Bit …
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Jack Johnson is apparently not so great at playing poker, at least not while smoking pot with a country legend. In his new song, “Willie Got Me Stoned,” Johnson recounts a true story where he ended up too broke to take a cab home after a night hanging out with …
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