Ginger is a brisk, restrained listen. At 12 songs and 44 minutes, Brockhampton‘s fifth album operates like a tightrope act between the group’s propensity for overwhelming earnestness and the chaos of their kinetic cyphers. That’s what makes the album’s second track, “Sugar,” feel like a bold swing after the darkness …
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Katy Perry, Norah Jones and Mavis Staples will perform at the David Lynch Foundation’s Silence the Violence benefit concert, taking place October 11th at the Anthem in Washington, D.C. The Celebration Gospel Choir will also be hand for the event, with proceeds helping to bring Transcendental Meditation to 10,000 people …
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Liam Gallagher has dropped another new track from his forthcoming album Why Me? Why Not. The song, “One of Us,” is a meditative, emotionally-driven rock song tinged with strings and gospel backing vocals. Gallagher co-wrote the track with Andrew Wyatt, and the musician’s youngest son Gene played bongos for the …
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A mere three months after the release of their critically-acclaimed album U.F.O.F., Big Thief have announced a second LP for 2019. Two Hands will be released on October 11th via 4AD and its led by the scorching single “Not.” Recorded 30 miles outside El Paso at Sonic Ranch Studio — …
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Bat for Lashes released a self-directed video for “The Hunger” on Tuesday, depicting a witchy seance in the desert. The track appears on her forthcoming album Lost Girls, out September 6th. “The Hunger” shows Bat for Lashes, aka Natasha Khan, hugging and blessing a group of women on a flat …
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Mac Miller and Rick Rubin discuss the difficulties of getting personal on record, but also the potential rewards that come with that vulnerability, in a poignant clip from the next episode of Shangri-La. The segment was filmed while Miller was working on what would become his final album, Swimming, which …
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Deep Purple, Simon & Garfunkel, Neil Diamond, Paul Revere & the Raiders, the Bob Seger System and Vanilla Fudge highlight the upcoming soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino‘s new film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. The filmmaker hand-curated the Sixties-centric album, out July 26th via Columbia Records, which collects 22 songs …
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Art Neville, a giant of New Orleans music who helped co-found the Neville Brothers and the funk outfit the Meters, has died, Nola.com reports. He was 81. Neville’s longtime manager, Kent Sorrell, confirmed the musician’s death, saying, “It was peaceful. He passed away at home with his adoring wife Lorraine …
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Jethro Tull will celebrate the 40th anniversary of their 1979 LP Stormwatch with a massive reissue featuring unreleased songs, a recording of a 1980 concert and a new remix of the original album. The 4CD/2 DVD Stormwatch: 40thAnniversary Force 10 Edition, due out October 18th via Rhino, kicks off with …
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The Doors will include a trove of previously unreleased recordings on the upcoming 50th anniversary deluxe edition of their 1969 album, The Soft Parade, out October 18th. The band teased the project with one such rarity: An raucous early version of their 1970 track “Roadhouse Blues” — which would appear …
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