Neil Young has spent much of the pandemic focusing on an ambitious slate of archival releases, but he’s recently started work on a follow-up to his 2019 LP Colorado. “I have five songs ready for the next album,” he recently wrote to fans on the Neil Young Archives, “so I …
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Steve Earle and the Dukes have announced a slew of tour dates that will put them back on the road this summer. The trek kicks off July 1st at Gruene Hall in New Braunfels, Texas. With 37 dates announced so far, Earle’s tour will take his group through Texas to …
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The emotions that stampede through the 23 tracks onStop the War should be familiar to anyone who’s heard songs objecting to the Vietnam fiasco of the Sixties and Seventies. Soldiers yearn to see their lovers or families again or beg those partners to stay faithful; protesting voices call out for …
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John Mayer announced on Tuesday that he’ll be releasing his eighth studio album, titled Sob Rock, on July 16th. The singer and guitarist released the news on Twitter, along with the album’s cover art. Rolling Stone has reached out to representatives for Mayer for further details. Sob Rock will mark Mayer’s first …
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A week after Twenty One Pilots released their new album Scaled & Icy, the duo virtually performed the LP’s “Shy Away” on Friday’s Tonight Show. Performing from the same pastel-colored set used in their recent publicity photos, Tyler Joseph, Josh Dun and company ran through Scaled & Icy’s first single, …
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Bob Dylan turned 80 on Monday, but he didn’t publicly mark the occasion in any way beyond posts on his Instagram and Facebook pages promoting his Heaven’s Gate Whiskey. The rest of the world, however, was happy to fill in the gaps and tributes poured in from all quarters. Meanwhile, …
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A deluge of J. Cole tracks took over the latest Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart: Following the release of The Off-Season, the rapper scored eight of the ten most popular tracks in the country. The leader was “My.Life” with 21 Savage and Morray, which earned 36.4 million streams. (Cole …
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Roger Daltrey rolled out the first three dates of a solo tour yesterday. “[Daltrey] and members of the Who touring band will be on the road late summer 2021,” reads an announcement on the Who’s official website, “performing some Who hits, a few rarities and some solo hits. So far, …
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Patti Smith isn’t one to get cabin fever, but this past year has been the exception, as the pandemic left her grounded in her home city. “I haven’t left New York in over a year, which is the longest I’ve been rooted since my children have grown,” she tells Rolling …
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Madness performed their 1982 hit “Our House” from London’s Palladium on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday. The performance was in support of the influential ska band’s recent U.S.-only greatest hits collection Our House: The Very Best of Madness, which collects a dozen songs from the band’s five-decade career, from their debut …
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