Perfume Genius recruits Pigman (Marc LeBlanc) for his surreal new “Some Dream” video. Charles Grant and Hunter Ray Barker directed the bizarre video, which follows the character as he navigates a warehouse, plays organ, watches footage of tornadoes on his laptop, poses menacingly in front of a burning house, eats …
Read More »Lewis Capaldi Gets Intimate with 'Before You Go' at 2020 American Music Awards
Lewis Capaldi made his American Music Awards performance debut with a rendition of “Before You Go” on Sunday. The Scottish singer-songwriter performed a stripped-down rendition of the ballad, with just a piano backing his voice as he sang into the nearly empty and echoing Microsoft Theatre. The isolated yet intimate …
Read More »'Human Highway': Piecing Together the Great CSNY Album That Never Was
For those who still scan liner notes in the streaming era, one credit on Neil Young’s new ArchivesVol. II box — “Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young: Vocals” — will be both familiar and intriguing. The sight of those names on the collection, which dives into Young’s 1972–1976 work, is hardly …
Read More »Can the Recording Academy Make the Grammys Shine Again?
Sign up to receive your free exclusive Grammy Preview magazine for next year The most sensational moment of the 2020 Grammys took place a week and a half before the ceremony. With hundreds of artists and music executives en route to Los Angeles for the January 26th awards show and …
Read More »Musicians on Musicians: Kevin Parker & Billy Corgan
K evin Parker remembers hearing his older brother play Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream when they were growing up in Perth, Australia. “It was like an indescribable cross between optimistic and sad music,” says Parker. “All my friends were into Rage Against the Machine. Siamese Dream was my internal headspace album, …
Read More »Dolly Parton Donation Helps Fund Moderna Covid Vaccine Research
Dolly Parton has reaffirmed her living-saint status with the news on Tuesday that she may be partly responsible for helping supply some hope during the Covid-19 pandemic. In April, the Country Music Hall of Fame member donated $1 million to Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center toward Covid-19 research, funding that, …
Read More »Amigo the Devil Details New Album 'Born Against'
Amigo the Devil has announced plans for the follow-up to his 2018 debut Everything Is Fine. Titled Born Against, the new project will be released February 19th, 2021. Born Against brought the Austin-based Amigo the Devil to Dallas, where he cut tracks at Modern Electric with producer Beau Bedford (Texas …
Read More »Mariah Carey Unearths Never-Released 'Underneath the Stars' Video
Mariah Carey has unearthed her long-lost and never-released video for “Underneath the Stars,” from her 1995 album Daydream, as the latest installment of the singer’s yearlong #MC30 celebration. “The long lost video for ‘Underneath the Stars’ is finally here,” Carey tweeted. “It’s one of my favorite songs from the Daydream …
Read More »This Israeli Tech Company Wants to Beam Music to Your Ears
Innovators in the tech world have spent years trying to become the first to win over the masses with a private listening experience that doesn’t require traditional headphones. Sony’s Future Lab group tried it in 2016 with its “Concept N” product, which used miniature directional speakers and looked like a …
Read More »Teenage Fanclub Preview Upcoming LP 'Endless Arcade' With New Song 'Home'
Teenage Fanclub return with their new song “Home,” the first single and opening song off the Scottish rockers’ upcoming album Endless Arcade. The new LP, the band’s first since 2016’s Here, arrives March 5th via Merge Records. To preview the album, Norman Blake and company have shared the single version …
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