“How many of your favorite musicians have committed suicide?” Jehnny Beth asks out of the blue, during an interview about her solo debut, To Love Is to Live. “I don’t want to be too dark, but there is a fragility about being an artist. I think I’m very conscious of …
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Ruth B has released a moving new video for her song “If I Have a Son,” which features images of the Black Lives Matter protests captured by Flo Ngala. “Your skin, it glitters like gold/There’s love inside of your soul,” she sings over sparkling piano as photographs of protesters flash …
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Brother-sister duo Jesse and Joy speak out in support of the LGBTQ community in their new pop-cumbia single, “Love (Es Nuestro Idioma),” which translates to “Love (Is Our Language).” The song was released as part of a campaign headed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Joint …
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Frederick “Toots” Hibbert has released his first original studio single in more than 10 years, “Got to Be Tough.” The energized track arrives ahead of a full-length Toots and the Maytals LP of the same name, due out August 28th via Trojan Jamaica/BMG Records. Arriving at a time of political …
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The Flaming Lips shared their quirky vision of the COVID-19 concert experience on The Late Show with a truly quarantined performance of “Race for the Prize” that featured both the band and the audience in their own personal bubbles. Giant inflatable bubbles have long been a staple of Flaming Lips’ …
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Pearl Jam released the uncensored version of their “Jeremy” video for the first time Friday to mark National Gun Violence Awareness Day. The Ten song and its corresponding Mark Pellington-directed video — which won Video of the Year at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards — detailed the story of …
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Guitarist Jimmy Capps, a member of the Musicians Hall of Fame who played on such timeless country songs as Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler,” George Jones’ “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” and George Strait’s “Amarillo by Morning,” has died at 81. Capps was also a member of the Grand Ole Opry, …
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Minneapolis erupted in protests this week over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who was killed in police custody on May 25th. After video circulated of Officer Derek Chauvin pinning Floyd to the ground by pressing his knee into his neck for several minutes, the MPD fired …
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Brandi Carlile will be performing her Grammy Award-winning breakthrough album,By the Way, I Forgive You, in its entirety for a ticketed virtual concert taking place on Monday, June 1st, at 9 p.m. ET, via Veeps.com. The concert will be held on Carlile’s 39th birthday, and will mark her first full …
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Steven Drozd of the Flaming Lips, Steve Berlin of Los Lobos and drummer Scott Amendola will premiere a new score they wrote for Cecil B. DeMille’s 1923 film The Ten Commandments Thursday, May 28th, at around 8:15 p.m. PT/11:15 p.m. ET. The premiere will be part of DAWN, an all-night …
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