The Beach Boysunearthed more archival material, including dozens of previously unreleased songs, with their two new retrospective sets, 1967 – Sunshine Tomorrow 2: The Studio Sessions and Live Sunshine – 1967. The digital audio collections, available to purchase or stream now, follow the June-issued double-LP, 1967 – Sunshine Tomorrow. All …
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About half a year before his death in 2015, Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister finished what would be his last solo recording, a collaboration with guitarist Chris Declercq. The song, “We Are the Ones,” bears all of Kilmister’s trademarks: gritty vocals with lyrics like “I can escape the feeling/I know just …
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The estate of Walter Becker has responded to a lawsuit filed by his Steely Dan bandmate Donald Fagen over the ownership of the band following Becker’s September 3rd death. In Fagen’s lawsuit, the singer accuses Becker’s estate of reneging on a Buy/Sell Agreement that he and Becker agreed to in …
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2017 has seen Miranda Lambert share the mic with a number of fellow country stars, from Wade Bowen and Randy Rogers to Little Big Town. Now she can add pop-punk icons Green Day to her list of collaborators, thanks to “Ordinary World,” a song that appears on the band’s new …
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When Sharon Jones died of pancreatic cancer last year, the world lost its greatest exponent of vintage soul; that she’d first hit her stride in the ’00s with the revivalist, detail-obsessed Daptone label, made the accomplishment all the more striking. Recorded over her last two years with longtime sidemen, genre-masters …
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On “The Beautiful & Damned,” 28-year-old Oakland rapper G-Eazylays out the contradictory impulses of his nature. “To understand a Gemini/ Angel, devil, it’s both him and I,” he raps. The mid-tempo track’s solemn tone reflects the rapper’s mental unrest. He ruminates on the “scrutiny” of fame and how the double-edged …
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Prophets of Rage – the supergroup/”elite task force of revolutionary musicians” featuring members of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill – offer a glimpse of their life on the road in the video for “Hands Up,” a cathartic track punctuated with the line “had enough, had enough, …
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The closeness within the country music community and the ties that lie between the artists, even as they compete for trophies and radio spins, was the theme of Wednesday’s CMA Awards. But there’s another tightknit cadre of musicians that exists, and performs, east of the Cumberland River – a scene …
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Paul McCartney joined Steven Van Zandt and the Disciples of Soul for a raucous rendition of the Beatles‘ “I Saw Her Standing There” during Van Zandt’s concert in London, Saturday November 4th. McCartney and Van Zandt shared vocal duties, and a microphone, throughout the performance of the classic 1963 single. …
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The Used‘s Bert McCracken and Justin Shekoski delivered a powerful acoustic performance in an exclusive video for Rolling Stone. The veteran rock outfit recently released their seventh studio album, The Canyon. McCracken and Shekoski opened the three-song set with an old favorite, “On My Own,” the sweeping ballad off their …
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