Singer-songwriter Cass McCombs mulls the state of the world and its possible end on his new song, “Sleeping Volcanoes.” The track will appear on McCombs’ upcoming album, Tip of the Sphere, which arrives February 8th, 2019 via Anti- Records. “Sleeping Volcanoes” opens with a dreamy guitar lick but soon settles …
Read More »SiriusXM Is Making Some of the Most Money In Music
Those who claim radio is on its way out will second-guess themselves after SiriusXM’s latest earnings report. For the third quarter of 2018, the satellite radio company posted revenue of $1.5 billion — a quarterly record for the company — and got nearly 300,000 new subscribers, bringing its total subscriber …
Read More »Lil Pump Releases XXXTentacion Collaboration 'Arms Around You' Amid Controversy
On Tuesday night, the litany of charges and accusations against XXXTentacion, the young Florida rapper who was murdered earlier this year, resurfaced whenPitchforkpublished a partial transcript of a secretly recorded conversation between XXX and several others. On the recording, he confessed to several crimes, including domestic abuse and multiple stabbings. …
Read More »Mark Knopfler Plots Summer North American Tour
Mark Knopfler announced a headlining North American tour for summer 2019. The Dire Straits frontman will kick off the 28-date trek on August 16th in Mashantucket, Connecticut and conclude September 22nd in Los Angeles, California. Tickets for most shows will be available to pre-order on Monday, October 29th via Knopfler’s …
Read More »Watch Courtney Love Perform 'Celebrity Skin' With 1,500 Musicians
Courtney Love leads a band of 1,500 members through a performance of Hole‘s “Celebrity Skin” in the latest video from Italy’s Rockin’ 1000, the self-proclaimed “Biggest Rock Band on Earth.” In 2015, the Rockin’ 1000 came to viral prominence with a video featuring 1,000 musicians playing Foo Fighters’ “Learn to …
Read More »Alejandro Escovedo Documents the Immigrant Experience on New Album 'The Crossing'
Alejandro Escovedo is the picture of cool as he walks into Grimey’s record shop in Nashville one bright and sunny weekday afternoon in September. Dressed in a black suit and black cowboy boots with a cravat tucked into his shirt collar, he casts a wary glance around the room where …
Read More »Watch Nile Rodgers Unlock the Science Behind the Perfect Groove in 'Sober' Video
Disco legends Nile Rodgers and Chic head to Abbey Road to uncover the scientific secret behind the perfect groove in the new video for “Sober,” premiering exclusively at Rolling Stone. The New Jack Swing-inspired cut features British singer Craig David and rising rapper Stefflon Don. The eye-popping clip opens with …
Read More »Depressed About Climate Change Reports? Watch Quavo Survive Armageddon
Quavo is the rapper most likely to survive the apocalypse. The ex-quarterback, recreational basketball player and pop star has an innate talent for adaptability and a wide array of talents he can leverage during end times. That surprising part of the Quavo and Daps-directed video for “B U B B …
Read More »John and Alice Coltrane's Long Island Home Named National Treasure
In his book on John Coltrane‘sA Love Supreme, jazz historian Ashley Kahn wrote about how the saxophonist composed the legendary album in near monastic isolation in the summer of 1964. “For five days, Coltrane secluded himself upstairs in his new Long Island home with paper, pen, and saxophone,” Khan wrote. …
Read More »Traveling Wilburys' 'Vol. 1' Prepped for Picture Disc Vinyl Reissue
Jeff Lynne and Bob Dylan will celebrate the 30th anniversary of their legendary supergroup’s debut album,The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, with a picture disc vinyl reissue out November 2nd via Craft Recordings.The limited-edition 12-inch is available for pre-order. The A-side image features the band’s logo, and the B-side includes an …
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