Neil Young is bringing back his Harvest Moon benefit concert at the Painted Turtle Camp in Lake Hughes, Ca., and will welcome Beck and Lana Del Rey for the 2025 edition on Oct. 25. Young launched the event in 2019 as the successor to his annual Bridge School Benefit concerts, which he organized with his…
Ken Vasoli connects with Taijuan Walker. A lot of Phillies fans, including plenty in the crowd around us at Citizens Bank Park, don’t have much faith in him as one of the starting pitchers in a team with World Series aspirations in the business end of the season. Walker’s having a tough night so far….
Portugal. The Man will return this fall with their 10th studio album, SHISH, which will arrive Nov. 7 on the band’s new label, KNIK. The singles “Tanana” and “Mush” are out now and can be sampled below. “‘Mush’ is survival, connection and ambition,” frontman John Gourley says. “Rural life with moments of danger and absurdity,…
“Singing is my true instrument,” says Bria Salmena, the L.A.-based singer-songwriter who might be most famous for playing guitar in Orville Peck’s touring band. “That’s really my preferred form of expression. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to put myself deeper into my songs, how to make my songs more like emotional journeys.”…
“My mom owned an antique store when I was a kid, so I think I just got into collecting old stuff from a young age,” says Caleb “Bones” Owens. “I love collecting a lot of things, whether it be guitars, motorcycles, or records.” Lately, Owens has been getting a lot of mileage out of those…
Sam Prekop may be most familiar to astute listeners as the frontman of eclectic Chicago band the Sea & Cake, but he’s also built a robust catalog of modular synth-driven projects as a solo artist and in collaboration with Sea & Cake drummer John McEntire. The focus remains electronic on Open Close, due Friday (Sept….
The Linda Perry-led 4 Non Blondes reunited this year for their first proper shows since 1994, and the fun won’t end just yet. The group will perform Dec. 15 at the Roxy in Los Angeles and Dec. 17 at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco (get tickets here), and also has plans to release…
South Bend, Indiana-born singer-songwriter October London might be the closest we’ve come to seeing the full aspiration of the original Death Row Records, founded in 1991 by The D.O.C., Dr. Dre, Suge Knight, Dick Griffey, and Harry-O. For all the legendary rappers—2Pac, Snoop, and the heat that trailed them—Death Row was always reaching for something…
Irish rock quartet Inhaler are the guests on the newest installment of the Lipps Service podcast, speaking with host Scott Lipps about their new album, Open Wide, how they met and formed and the influence of the Irish music scene and contemporaries such as Fontaines D.C. The musicians also get into opening for Noel Gallagher, Oasis’ comeback…
Roxy Music released its final album, Avalon, in 1982, capping off a decade that saw the group morph from the shimmering art rock of its debut to something more majestic but wearier. Seven years had passed since the group’s last masterpiece (Siren). The uneven Manifesto (1979) and Flesh + Blood (1980) felt like a group…
