Foo Fighters, Lorde and LCD Soundsystem will share headlining duties with the more pop-oriented Backstreet Boys, Teddy Swims and sombr at the 2026 edition of California’s BottleRock Napa Valley festival. The event will take place Memorial Day weekend (May 22-24) at Napa Valley Expo, with tickets now available. Among the dozens of other artists confirmed…
In the first season of her recording career, from 1974 to 1980, Patti Smith was a raw nerve, blazing behind the microphone on a mission to reinvent rock and roll as a setting for a new kind of feral, literary revolt. She emerged from the first generation of punk rock at CBGB in New York…
While Pearl Jam plots its next move following the summer departure of longtime drummer Matt Cameron, frontman Eddie Vedder is making his maiden solo voyage across the Pacific. Vedder will play four theater shows in Japan this spring on April 14 in Nagoya (Forest Hall), April 16 in Osaka (Festival Hall), April 17 in Kyoto…
Band Of Horses’ beloved 2006 Sub Pop debut, Everything All the Time, will be bolstered with rare and unreleased tracks for its 20th anniversary edition, which will be out March 20 from Sub Pop. They include the group’s hard-to-find 2005 Tour EP, demos and its contribution to The O.C., “The End’s Not Near.” The first…
Phish leader Trey Anastasio is among the many musicians saluting the life of Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir, who died Saturday (Jan. 10) at the age of 78. Anastasio played on several occasions with Weir over the past 30-plus years, the most high-profile of which was at the Dead’s 50th anniversary Fare Thee Well concerts…
Roxanne Shanté is listening to her Juice Crew partner Masta Ace talk about RZA’s upcoming EP, Juice Crew, when she has an a-ha moment. Unbeknownst to her, RZA had started the project years ago to accompany the 2017 release of the Shanté biopic Roxanne Roxanne. Suddenly it all clicked. Song titles like “Single Mothers,” “Lolita,”…
Dry Cleaning singer Florence Shaw likes to keep some distance between her vocals and the rest of the band. Shaw’s curious confidences, spoken-word confessions, and bemused monologues appear to have only a passing relationship to the propulsive rhythms and brittle riffs that frame them. That dissonance can be striking at first, but it grows restrictive–stark…
When four esteemed underground music veterans joined forces in 1997 to record their Thrill Jockey debut album as Pullman, their entirely acoustic, overdub-free sound was a surprising but welcome contrast to the vastly more experimental work that Ken (formerly Bundy K.) Brown, Doug McCombs, Chris Brokaw and Curtis Harvey had been making for years in…
Bob Weir, who joined the Grateful Dead on guitar and vocals at the age of 16 and then spent the next 60 years helping shepherd its legacy, died today (Jan. 10) at the age of 78. According to a social media post from his family, the jam band legend was diagnosed with cancer in July…
Long before social media, the multimedia performance poet John Giorno, once the toast of New York City’s underground spanning Andy Warhol’s Factory, the punk rock revolution and the Beat Generation, created a free zone of radical poets and socio-political activists available at the end of a phone line — Dial-A-Poem. Beginning in 1969, Giorno offered…
