It’s a late August afternoon, and John Dwyer is sitting in his Los Angeles backyard, sipping an iced coffee. His beagle, Buddy, zips around the bramble and the sound of a Robert Fripp record trickles out from inside the house, which doubles as Dwyer’s studio. It’s a rare moment of …

Elizabeth Cook and Boo Ray dive into the half-lit holiday spirit with “All Strung Out Like Christmas Lights,” a tribute to the timeless tradition of getting drunk and getting it on. Making its world premiere today, the track was co-written by the two left-leaning singers, who swap harmonies over a …

It’s no wonder Voice coach Blake Shelton continuously expresses his dismay that 21-year-old Ashland Craft isn’t on his team: the Piedmont, South Carolina native has a very good shot at winning the whole thing. Craft’s powerful, smoky rasp has drawn natural parallels to Chris Stapleton, but she also imbues her …

For their first studio album since 2011, and first since their split from Wind-Up Records, Evanescence revamps the radio smashes of previous years into electro-orchestral adaptations – including a redo of their 2003 breakout hit, “Bring Me to Life.” It’s an act of artistic justice for frontwoman Amy Lee, who …

Martin McDonagh can’t recall exactly where he was when he first saw the signs. The 47-year-old award-winning playwright and filmmaker thinks it might have been Florida. Maybe it was Georgia. Or possibly Alabama or even Mississippi; the bus he was on hit all of them on its route, so he …

Agnostic Front were born in a war zone, and their music sounded like it. From its early-Eighties inception, the band embodied the violence, drugs and tragedy surrounding the New York hardcore scene it helped spawn on the city’s derelict Lower East Side. It was unclear if the band would survive …

The 51st annual CMA Awards didn’t open with an all-star performance on Wednesday night, although it got to one of those quickly enough. It began instead with Eric Church alone on a half-lit stage, singing “Amazing Grace.” Country music has been battered in recent weeks, and this awards gala – …

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, the Misfits, William Shatner and “Weird Al” Yankovic have contributed new punk covers of classic Dr. Demento songs to a new collection celebrating the work of the legendary radio personality and novelty song maestro.Dr. Demento Covered In Punkarrives January 12th, 2018 via Demented Punk. The …

The bigger the name, the weirder the theory. Paul McCartney became a household name when he rose to prominence as part of the Beatles in the 1960s, and his star power has held steady ever since the band broke up in 1970. But some conspiracy theorists believe that the Paul …

In the weeks since a shooter killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 others at Las Vegas‘ Route 91 Harvest festival, Kevin Lyman, producer of the long-running Warped Tour, has been thinking a lot about security at his outdoor festival. In recent years, he’d already added police dogs and …