Dashboard Confessional usher in #ThrowbackThursday with a Spotify playlist that features a mix of video clips and songs to mark the release of Dashboard Confessional’s The Best Ones of the Best Ones compilation album, which will be available on Friday. Band leader Chris Carrabba personally culled the 50-track Spotify playlist, …
Read More »Watch the Residents Perform 'God in Three Persons' Live for the First Time
Last weekend, avant-garde rock collective the Residents staged their 1988 concept album, God in Three Persons, live for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The performance found the band teaming with visual artist John Sanborn and director Travis Chamberlain, and now videos from …
Read More »Daryl Hall and John Oates Are Plotting a New Album, Not a 50th Anniversary Celebration
Daryl Hall and John Oates are going to spend much of the summer on the road with Squeeze and KT Tunstall, but when the tour wraps, they’re hoping to turn their attention to their first collection of new songs since 2003’s Do It for Love. “I’m in the process right …
Read More »Watch The Jonas Brothers Preview a New Song at the Grammys
The Jonas Brothers took the stage at the 62nd Grammy Awards to perform their new single, “What a Man Gotta Do,” as well as a preview of “Five More Minutes,” a new song that has yet to be released. “So what a man gotta do?/What a man gotta do?” the …
Read More »Justin Bieber's 'Seasons': How Director Michael Ratner Made 'Real-Time' Docuseries
Today, YouTube premiered the first episode of Justin Bieber’s 10-part documentary Seasons, which mostly charts the creation of his forthcoming fifth album. For Bieber and his team, returning to YouTube is the perfect metaphor for his career: the video platform was how manager and confidant Scooter Braun accidentally discovered a …
Read More »Brandi Carlile Jaunts Through Intimate Grammy Week Show
Brandi Carlile is nothing if not a wizard with her setlist. In her intimate Los Angeles show Thursday evening at the Palladium — the third of four concerts as part of the Citi Sound Vault Grammy Week series — Carlile weaved in and out of country stomps and ballads, hyping …
Read More »Roger Waters Plots North American Tour, Calls on Human Race to 'Change' or 'Die'
A little over a year after wrapping his monumental Us + Them Tour, Roger Waters will return to the road this summer for a North American tour summer dubbed This Is Not a Drill. He will present an all-new show, this time in the round. The trek, which finds him …
Read More »Waxahatchee Catches 'Fire,' Announces New Album and Tour
Waxahatchee‘s Katie Crutchfield overlooks the Mississippi River in the new video for “Fire,” the first single from her upcoming LP Saint Cloud, out March 27th via Merge Records. “That’s what I wanted,” she sings in the clip, walking across the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge in the blinding sunlight. “It’s not …
Read More »Porches Dances With His Therapist in New Video for 'Do U Wanna'
Porches, a.k.a. Aaron Maine, dances with his therapist in the new video for “Do U Wanna.” The track is the first single off the synth-pop artist’s upcoming LP, Ricky Music, out March 13th via Domino Records. Directed by Maine and Nick Harwood, the dreamy clip opens with Maine in the …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Mac Miller, 'Good News'
Hearing Mac Miller wrestle with dark thoughts from beyond the grave is a gut-punch. It’s also beautiful. That’s the duality of “Good News,” the first single from the rapper’s new posthumous album, Circles. Over a gently chugging groove sprinkled with pizzicato strings, Miller, who died in 2018 of an accidental …
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