Days after Woodstock 50‘s financial backer announced it was canceling the festival, its production partner has severed its ties with the event. The entertainment company Superfly, which co-produces Bonnaroo and Outside Lands, confirmed to Rolling Stone on Wednesday that it is no longer involved in the venture. “The producers of …
Read More »Watch Mac DeMarco Perform the Very Chill 'All of Our Yesterdays' on 'Fallon'
Mac DeMarco took to the stage onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday night to perform the song “All of Our Yesterdays,” from the upcoming albumHere Comes the Cowboy. The indie rock track follows DeMarco’s signature mellow style, but he injected the late-night performance with a warm, wistful stage …
Read More »Willie Nelson's 86th Birthday to Be Celebrated With SiriusXM Concert Special
Willie Nelson turns 86 on Monday and his curated SiriusXM channel Willie’s Roadhouse is celebrating with four days of special programming this weekend. Dubbed “Willie Nelson’s 4-Day Birthday Weekend,” the one-hour block kicks off April 27th at 7:00 p.m./ET and airs at various times through Tuesday night. The special consists …
Read More »Depeche Mode's Martin Gore to Receive 2019 Moog Innovation Award at Moogfest
Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore will receive the 2019 Moog Innovation Award at this year’s Moogfest. A ceremony for the prize — which honors artists who exemplify the “bold, innovative spirit” of synthesizer pioneer Bob Moog — will take place Friday, April 26th following Gore’s keynote conversation with Mute Records founder …
Read More »Dave Rawlings Machine to Release 'Nashville Obsolete' Album on Vinyl
Dave Rawlings Machine’s sterling folk-pop treasure Nashville Obsolete, which landed on Rolling Stone’s list of the 40 Best Country Albums of 2015, will make its debut on vinyl June 14th on Acony Records. The seven-track LP, which was Rawlings’ sophomore release under the Dave Rawlings Machine moniker following 2009’s A …
Read More »Craig Finn Just Wants to Make 'Smaller' Records
Ask a Craig Finn fan to picture the contents of the singer’s brain on a given day, and they might imagine a steady stream of the sort of first-pumping underdog tales he’s spent 16 years shouting onstage as frontman of the Hold Steady. But these days, the singer often fixates …
Read More »Hear Pink, Khalid's World-Weary New Ballad 'Hurts 2B Human'
Pink released a new track, “Hurts 2B Human,” the title track from her upcoming album due out this Friday. The contemplative pop ballad features guest vocals from 21-year-old rising star Khalid, and was co-written with Teddy Geiger, Scott Harris, Anna-Catherine Hartley, and Alexander “Xplicit” Izquierdo. Like other recent Pink tracks …
Read More »Janelle Monae Was Going to Cover Migos, But Then She Took a Trip to Jamaica
Janelle Monáe doesn’t do cover songs that often. “I’m very selective about the cover songs that I choose and they mean so much to me,” she said on Spotify’s Under Cover podcast. “It’s really difficult because I spend so much time crying to them or dancing to them that I …
Read More »Watch Offset and Cardi B Flex Their Star Power in 'Clout' Video
Offset released the steamy new video for “Clout” Wednesday, featuring Cardi B. The track, which features on the Migos rapper’s solo LP Father of 4, is the hip-hop couple’s first collaboration since their guest verses on Lil Yachty’s “Who Want the Smoke?” last July. Decked out almost entirely in yellow and …
Read More »Kurt Vile and Terry Allen in Conversation: Indie Rocker Talks With His Country Hero
A month ago, Terry Allen and Kurt Vile met for the first time at Allen’s Santa Fe, New Mexico, home. Vile had come across Allen’s albums, Juarez and Lubbock (on Everything), and became enamored with the 75-year-old singer-songwriter and conceptual artist from Lubbock, Texas. Since then, the songwriters have become …
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