Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber tour is underway, with all nine surviving members—RZA, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, GZA, Cappadonna, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa and Raekwon—taking their classic catalogs to 27 cities across North America. Produced by AEG Presents, the trek kicked off June 9 in Baltimore and hits key markets like Los Angeles, San…
Brian Wilson, who revolutionized popular music from humble origins in Hawthorne, Ca., and led the Beach Boys to global superstardom, has died at the age of 82, per a statement from his family. The music legend had been in poor health for many years and was unable to care for himself after the death of…
For the last 20+ years, Billy Martin has played some of the biggest imaginable stages as the lead guitarist of Good Charlotte, and he brought his trusty PRS guitars with him every step of the way. From the early days of “Little Things” and the band’s massive rise beginning with The Young and the Hopeless…
Japanese Breakfast has contributed the new original song “My Baby (Got Nothing At All)” to the Celine Song-directed romantic comedy Materialists, which stars Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans and opens Friday (June 13) in U.S. theaters. A24 Music will release an accompanying soundtrack that day. The score was written by Daniel Pemberton, who…
Imagine it’s the summer of ’95 and you’re going about your morning, minding your own business, thinking it’s going to be a day like any other—and you turn on the radio and “You Oughta Know” comes on. The song’s from the point of view of a young woman you likely may not know anything about,…
It has been nearly seven years since David Byrne released his last album, American Utopia, which was later adapted into a hit Broadway musical and HBO film. Fresh off a surprise appearance with Olivia Rodrigo over the weekend at New York’s Governors Ball festival, the artist has detailed his next moves, which include a fresh…
Joshua Ferdman is not just composing music; he is restoring silence. With his new album Verdant, Ferdman delivers what may be the quietest, most emotionally raw piano record of the decade. Recorded entirely on location in a forest sanctuary in the Pacific Northwest, the album is a meditation on natural rhythm, grief, and sensory healing….
With their new Roadrunner album NEVER ENOUGH poised for career-best debuts on the U.S. and U.K. charts, Turnstile have announced a fall North American tour in support of it. Dates begin Sept. 15 in Nashville and wind down Oct. 19 in Orlando, Fl. Presale tickets will be available tomorrow (June 11). Turnstile will bring along…
The world has been bereft of new Pulp music for nearly a quarter century, but the beloved Sheffield, U.K.-reared, Jarvis Cocker-fronted band couldn’t have chosen a more apropos time to return than when life on Earth seems like one big, never-ending WTF. On More (Rough Trade), the wordplay is wondrous (“Grown Ups” rhymes “vicar” with…
The Reconstruction period immediately following the American Civil War was a time of change in the South; when the former Confederate states worked on reintegrating into the Union, Black slaves adjusted to life as newly-freed slaves, and new constitutional amendments were put in place to guarantee citizenship and voting rights for men, regardless of race. …
