John Carpenter will be releasing a new album of non-soundtrack music — his first in nearly five years — in early 2021. Titled Lost Themes III: Alive After Death, the album will be out on February 5th, 2021, via Sacred Bones. Carpenter’s concept behind the first Lost Themes album in …
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Netflix has premiered the trailer for Selena: The Series, a coming-of-age drama based on the life of Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla-Pérez. The first nine episodes of the series (Part One) will drop December 4th on the streaming platform, with the second half of episodes to be released at a later …
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Saweetie has released a new single, “Back to the Streets,” featuring Jhené Aiko. Co-produced with Timbaland, the sassy track is an ode to “F boys” — the men Saweetie enjoys for however long she wants to before moving on to the next one. “I put my new man on a …
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Yusuf/Cat Stevens will celebrate the 50th anniversary of his two 1970 albums,Mona Bone Jakon and the classic Tea for the Tillerman, with huge reissues dedicated to both LPs. Both boxsets come packed with dozens of unreleased tracks — 24 unearthed recordings for Mona Bone Jakon and 21 for Tea for …
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Ahead of the 2020 election, Graham Nash has revived a song he originally wrote as a plea to oust Richard Nixon from office: the succinctly titled and still-relevant, “Vote.” Nash tells Rolling Stone that the song came about in the Seventies in response to Nixon’s presidency and Watergate, but it …
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Neil Young isn’t releasing his 10-disc collection Archives Volume 2: 1972-1976 until November 22nd, but paid subscribers of The Neil Young Archives website now have access to the previously unreleased song “Come Along and Say You Will.” The tune was recorded at Young’s Broken Arrow Ranch on December 15th, 1972 …
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Brett Eldredge gives a stripped-down, in-studio performance of his song “When I Die” for the third installment of his “Live at Royal Plum” series, filmed at producer Daniel Tashian’s home studio. The original version of “When I Die” appears on Eldredge’s 2020 album Sunday Drive. Eldredge co-wrote “When I Die” …
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When Gary Cherone heard the news yesterday that his onetime bandmate, Eddie Van Halen, had died of cancer, he was reeling. “My phone was off the hook and I couldn’t talk,” he says. “I was texting people just hearts. I couldn’t respond to them.” Today, the sadness remains overwhelming, and …
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When AC/DC wrapped up their Rock or Bust world tour in September 2016, the band truly seemed to be done forever. Rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young was in the final throes of a battle with dementia that forced his retirement two years earlier, drummer Phil Rudd sat out the entire tour …
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Tom Morello first heard Eddie Van Halen in high school in Libertyville, Illinois, and he’s long called the guitarist’s band one of his biggest influences: “If aliens came down and challenged us to a battle of the bands to decide the fate of planet earth, I would feel very confident …
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