Paul Weller gets a lift from Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant and Oasis’ Noel Gallagher on Find El Dorado, a 15-track covers album due for release July 24 from Warner/Parlophone Records. The former Jam and Style Council frontman, who turns 67 next week, worked on the album with producer/Ocean Colour Scene guitarist Steve Cradock. Other guest…
Fresh off dazzling thousands of fans last weekend while headlining his own two-day festival at Under the K Bridge Park in Brooklyn, N.Y., Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden has re-teamed with guitarist William Tyler for 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s, a full-length album follow-up to their 2023 single Darkness, Darkness. The seven-track project will be released…
Working quickly on the heels of the hugely successful 2024 album Clancy, Ohio rock duo twenty one pilots will return in September with another new LP, Breach. No specific release date has been confirmed for the Fueled by Ramen project, but the first single, “The Contract,” will arrive June 12. Breach can be pre-ordered by…
Gorillaz will bring fans into their bespoke cartoon world this summer as part of the exhibition House of Kong, which will be staged Aug. 8-Sept. 3 at London’s Copper Box. Click here for tickets. Per organizers, House of Kong will trace the Damon Albarn-led band’s “life of misadventures, musical innovation and groundbreaking virtual ways” since…
Bruce Springsteen’s pre-song speeches bashing Donald Trump at the E Street Band’s European tour opener last week are immortalized on the new digital EP Land of Hope & Dreams, which also includes four full live performances. At the May 14 show in Manchester, England, Springsteen labeled Trump as “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous” before he and…
Hugh Harris says that we’re nostalgia hunters. When he says “we,” it’s not clear whether he’s talking about himself and his Kooks bandmate, Luke Pritchard, or “we” as in all of us. More from Spin: Chuck D Is Calling You Out New Book on Bob Dylan Explores the Artist’s Most Influential Period of Music They…
“Holy shit there are a lot of kids!” With this statement, John Flansburgh—one of the two Johns of They Might Be Giants, along with John Lindell—was correct: there were an expletive-worthy amount of kids at their show on Saturday, May 17 at Los Angeles’ historic Orpheum Theatre. I don’t remember it being like this back…
During the 1960s, Bob Dylan was many things to many people: a folk music icon, a civil rights activist, and a singing revolutionary. He released a dizzying array of landmark albums, such as The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde, making him one of the decade’s most innovative artists. But he…
Chuck D is prepping for a busy summer. Following a Public Enemy performance in Napa Valley and another at Boston Calling at the end of May, Chuck, Flavor Flav, and crew head overseas for a handful of shows in June before joining Guns N’ Roses on their Because What You Want & What You Get…
Pearl Jam wrapped their 2024-25 Dark Matter tour in fiery fashion last night (May 18) in Pittsburgh, blasting Donald Trump’s recent insult-filled response to Bruce Springsteen’s onstage remarks about the state of the union while also elegantly saluting late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell on the eighth anniversary of his suicide. Fans had a sense the…
