Gorillaz lean into dub with the help of IDLES frontman Joe Talbot on “The God of Lying,” the third single from their upcoming album, The Mountain. Talbot also appears in the song’s visualizer, which can be seen below. The track was penned by Gorillaz leader Damon Albarn and Tlabot and features Ajay Prasanna on bansuri…
Khruangbin offer a completely new take on their 2015 debut album, The Universe Smiles Upon You, with a re-recorded version out now digitally through Dead Oceans. Work on the project commenced on the actual 10th anniversary of sessions for the original album and was tracked in the same central Texas barn owned by guitarist Mark…
After a 52-year run filled with some of the most familiar hits in mainstream rock history, Journey is calling it a career on the Final Frontier tour, which will encompass 60 North American shows beginning Feb. 28 in Hershey, Pa. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Nov. 14. “This tour is our…
Leonard Albert Kravitz was born in 1964, the only child of Black actress Roxie Roker and Jewish NBC news producer Sy Kravitz. Over the next few decades, he grew up to be one of his generation’s most iconic rock stars, befriending idols like Prince and Michael Jackson and dating an array of glamorous actresses and…
Radiohead began their first tour in more than seven years last night (Nov. 4) in Madrid with a 25-song show drawing on eight of their nine studio albums (sorry, Pablo Honey fans). The performance was also the live debut of second drummer Chris Vatalaro, who has previously collaborated with Radiohead drummer Phil Selway, among many…
“We had to get a death certificate,” says Travis Mills—one-half of pop-punk duo girlfriends, along with Nick Gross—over a video call from Studio City, about getting the rights to the social media handle that would bear the band’s name. Before we get into that, however, let’s back up a bit. Before girlfriends, Mills, who currently…
Cat Power is honoring the impending 20th birthday of her beloved album The Greatest with a three-song EP, Redux, which will arrive Jan. 23 digitally and on 10-inch vinyl from Domino. The lead track is a newly recorded cover of James Brown’s “Try Me” featuring the Dirty Delta Blues band from the original tour in…
It was the summer of 1992, and Ladybug Mecca, Butterfly, and Doodlebug—collectively known as Digable Planets—were recording their debut album, Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), commuting back and forth between Brooklyn and a studio in Jersey. They didn’t know it at the time, but the album’s lead single, “Rebirth of Slick (Cool…
It’s been more than 30 years since Dave Grohl formed the Foo Fighters—his chart-topping rock group, which saw the drummer take front and center stage after Nirvana, proving his chops as a singer, songwriter, and guitarist. If there was any doubt that the band would continue after recent personal and line-up woes, he put them…
Jimmy Eat World have rounded up a handful of digital-only singles as well as a new track, “Failure,” for the Something(s) Loud EP, which will be released Nov. 14 in physical form by the band’s Exotic Location Recordings label. “Failure” was recorded during 2019 sessions for the album Surviving but was ultimately held back from…
