Earlier this year, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready completed the music for a new documentary, The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash, which premiered this week at South by Southwest. The movie, directed by Thom Zimny (Elvis Presley: The Searcher), uses archival footage and interviews with Cash’s family and friends …
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LSD, the supergroup featuring Labrinth, Sia and Diplo, close up their social circle on the playful new song, “No New Friends.” The track will appear on the group’s self-titled debut, out April 12th. On “No New Friends,” Diplo crafts a thumping dance beat peppered with bouncy synth loops that cleverly …
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The day the music died is a lie. Music never dies. It’s the one thing our minds protect at all costs. If only our wallets were so loyal. Now they have a chance to be: This week, the largest popular music collection in America (3 million recordings!) is, for the …
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Mumford & Sons have tacked on a string of West Coast shows to the end of their world tour in support of their 2018 album, Delta. The seven-date run kicks off August 3rd at the Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles, California and includes stops in Portland, Oregon, Vancouver, …
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A woman seeks refuge in the wake of an abusive relationship in the new animated video for the Cranberries’ “All Over Now.” Animator Daniel Britt directed the video, which follows a woman in a yellow rain jacket as she wanders through the English countryside. The clip deftly balances the jarring …
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R. Kelly has broken his silence in his first interview since new sexual abuse charges have been brought against him in Chicago. In an exclusive discussion with Gayle King for CBS This Morning, the singer denied recent allegations, calling them “not true” and he vehemently dismissed them as rumors. The …
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This year marks the 50th annual edition of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. To celebrate, Smithsonian Folkways will release Jazz Fest, a five-disc box set of live recordings from the iconic fest, spanning 1974 through 2016. You can preview the set now with Trombone Shorty‘s hard-grooving 2010 version …
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Sharon Van Etten stretched her malleable voice from a whisper to a full-blown scream on Thursday’s Ellen, performing her cathartic single “Seventeen.” The singer-songwriter opened in a hushed tone, crooning over pulsating bass guitar, airy synth pads and a post-punk drum pattern. The song exploded in the final verse, with …
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Beyoncé and Jay-Z won the 2019 Brit Award for Best International Group on Wednesday. Though the Carters were not present in person to accept their award, they recorded a clever acceptance speech in a video that paid tribute to Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle, the American wife who is married …
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Gary Clark Jr. has released a black-and-white music video for his latest single “What About Us,”which features on the guitarist’s forthcoming politically charged albumThis Land. The video for the trackwas directed bySavanah Leaf and showcases a group of people living and spending time in a trailer park: a black father …
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