The Black Keys have landed on an Aug. 8 release date for their 13th album, No Rain, No Flowers, the title track from which is out now. Among the collaborators on the self-produced Easy Eye Sound/Warner project are songwriters Rick Nowels and Daniel Tashian, plus veteran hip-hop producer/keyboardist Scott Storch. Black Keys guitarist/vocalist Dan Auerbach…
Bruce Springsteen slammed U.S. president Donald Trump as “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous” last night (May 14) before he and the E Street Band had even struck a note at their summer European tour opener in Co-Op Live in Manchester, England. “In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been…
Grammy-winning artist Laufey teams with the National’s Aaron Dessner on her upcoming album, A Matter of Time, which will be released Aug. 22 on Vingolf Recordings/AWAL. Following last month’s arrival of first single “Silver Lining,” another new track, “Tough Luck,” is out today (May 15). Laufey, whose name is pronounced lay-vay, calls it “is a…
In September 2012 in Kabul, Afghanistan, two young sisters, Parwana and Khorshid were killed by a suicide bomber meant for the American military. Their 8-year-old sister Mursal survived. There were seven Afghans killed including the two little girls. No Americans were harmed. A couple of years later California muso Lanny Cordola found himself just over…
Fifteen years ago, before becoming a multi-platinum selling pop star, Geoffrey Royce Rojas, known professionally as Prince Royce, launched his career with a unique cover. Reflecting his Dominican roots, the then 20-year-old New Yorker reimagined Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me” with a bachata arrangement sung in Spanglish. Now, at 36, Prince Royce is returning…
Jack Kirby was a comic book superhero. As an artist and writer, he was the essential creator or co-creator behind entire worlds of heroes and villains, interstellar conflicts and what has become billion-dollar franchises. Without him, we would never have known the likes of Captain America, Iron Man, Black Panther, the Hulk, Thor, Dr. Doom,…
Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will spotlight their fellow film and TV composers and also perform at the first Future Ruins festival, which will be held Nov. 8 at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center. “It’s about giving people who are, literally, the best in the world at taking audiences on an emotional…
Almost everyone has been in that post-breakup blues space where ice cream, tissues, and a blanket are the only acceptable companions while you sob over heartbreak ballads. Sure, it can feel like a sad, warm hug to embrace the gut-wrenching pain of a broken heart. Yet Stephen Thomas’ new single, “Breaking Hearts,” offers a refreshing…
Oasis fans got a reality check yesterday (May 13) when the band’s co-manager, Alec McKinlay, told Music Week that not only is there no new album to accompany the band’s upcoming first tour in 16 years, but that the highly anticipated, sold-out jaunt itself would be “the last time around.” Last year, Oasis singer Liam…
When I am introduced to Charlie Burchill, Simple Minds’ guitarist, the first thing he asks me is, “Where are you from?” It’s a complicated question for me to answer, but it doesn’t surprise me that he’s curious about it. In an early scene of the Simple Minds documentary, Simple Minds: Everything is Possible (viewable in…
