Music

Jeremy Ivey follows up his 2019 debut The Dream and the Dreamer with the new album Waiting Out the Storm. Due October 9th, it’s inspired by the glut of crises currently affecting the planet and arrives with the first single “Someone Else’s Problem.” A Dylan-like stream of multiple verses about …

Mary Chapin Carpenter has a snake problem. The Grammy-winning songwriter has been finding outgrown snakeskins around her home in Virginia and it’s freaking her out. “Just talking about it makes me want to vomit everywhere,” she says, pausing our phone call to get an update from the exterminator. “They say …

The fate of the live-music industry — along with that of millions of other small businesses and unemployed Americans — remains up in the air now that both chambers of Congress have left Washington for their August recess without passing a new Covid-19 relief bill. After weeks of fruitless negotiations …

Earlier this week, we spoke to AC/DC drummer Chris Slade about his first stint in the band in early early Nineties and his surprise return for the Rock or Bust tour of 2015 and 2016. “We always got on as people, so it wasn’t that different,” he said of his …

At the start of this week, Priscilla Block was not widely known. The country-music singer-songwriter had just started to make a name for herself on TikTok with 330,000 followers, but had yet to break into the mainstream. That changed with the release of “Just About Over You” on Wednesday evening. …

What Could Possibly Go Wrong isn’t supposed to be divisive. The first full-length from music industry darling Dominic Fike is so anodyne and palatable that critically ravaging it seems beside the point. Since his emergence in 2018, Fike’s story has hardened into recent industry legend. He recorded a low-key EP …

UPDATE (4/2): The Los Angeles County Attorney’s Office will not pursue criminal charges against Takeoff due to insufficient evidence, TMZ reported Friday. However, the Migos rapper is still facing the civil lawsuit stemming from the alleged June 2020 incident. **** A woman has accused Migos rapper Takeoff of rape at …

Tinashe wasn’t always the type of artist to lead with her political beliefs. It’s not that she didn’t have her convictions, but trying to keep your recording career alive inside a company that’s not built for you to succeed tends to be a full-time job. She parted ways with RCA …

“What’s the name of that fantastic Netflix series about hip-hop?” Bruce Hornsby asks. “You’re going to have to make a plea for my inclusion!” Hornsby is joking, of course, but this summer has brought another reminder of the keyboardist-singer’s unexpected impact on the genre. Nearly 35 years ago, Hornsby had …

Third Man Records is set to release a compilation of rare and unheard Indian violin music spanning from 1933 to 1952. How the River Ganges Flows, due out September 18th, “is a transcendent collection of Carnatic violin performances captured on 78 rpm disc between 1933 and 1952,” Third Man said …