When a group of young, idealistic hippies came together in mid-Sixties San Francisco to form Jefferson Airplane, they couldn’t have possibly imagined they were kickstarting a saga that would continue for more than a half-century and mutate into more bizarre permutations than basically any other rock band in history. The …
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Evanescence will embark on a short tour, which includes appearances at many festivals, with most of the dates in the spring and a couple this summer. The shows will mark a return to the band’s standard rock-group format, following its Synthesis Live Tour, which paired them with orchestras. The tour …
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YG, Rich the Kid and Bia take turns boasting on “Facts,” the new single from the DJ Chantel Jeffries. Jeffries produced the “Facts” beat with Prince Fox: It’s a stolid, unvarying take on the trap template. Bia brags (“I’m a big deal like my name all caps”), YG makes food-related …
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Lil Baby gazes out at the beach, poses for fan selfies, cruises the beach on an ATV and performs onstage in his intimate “Global” video. The rapper filmed the clip during his recent travels to Paris, France; Manchester, England; Lagos, Nigeria and Freeport, Bahamas. “Global” appears on Lil Baby’s recent …
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Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and composer Jozef Van Wissem build a tapestry of drones, noise, feedback and clanging stringed instruments on “The Two Paths,” a track off their upcoming collaborative album, An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil. A new video for the track, by director Jules Guerin, pairs the duo’s …
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The musical adaptation of Alanis Morissette‘s classic albumJagged Little Pill will officially debut on Broadway this fall. A theater and date will be announced at a later date. With a book by Oscar-winner Diablo Cody,Jagged Little Pill weaves together the songs from Morissette’s album of the same name. Cody’s story …
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Green Day has teamed up with Reverb to sell more than 100 pieces of gear that has been used on tour as well as in the studio over the course of their career. The band’s online Reverb shop, which launches on February 7th, will house items from each band member, …
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Ezra Koenig served up some fuzzy details about Vampire Weekend‘s upcoming fourth album, as well as an explanation about why it took them so long to make it, in an Instagram post Thursday. He’s not ready yet to share the record’s title, but he did offer up its initials: FOTB. …
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A Namibian artist is cementing what Toto fans have always known: “Africa” is eternal. Max Siedentopf has created a sound installation in the coastal Namib Desert that will pump out the chart-topping 1982 single on a continuous loop – using solar batteries “to keep Toto going for all eternity.” “[I] …
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Big Boi will perform as part of the Super Bowl LIII halftime show as the NFL confirmed Sunday that the Outkast rapper, along with the previously revealed Maroon 5 and Travis Scott, will take the stage at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium on February 3rd. The addition of Big Boi guarantees that …
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