** Lil Wayne sure seems hard to pin down, especially if you read about the travails required to finalize his recent Rolling Stone cover story. However, his whereabouts on June 6 have now been confirmed as part of his first headlining show ever at New York’s Madison Square Garden, which goes down the same day…
It was difficult for me to take The Darkness seriously when they burst onto the scene in 2003. They seemed like a hard rock parody, more exaggerated than the bands they were referencing. With their frontman, Justin Hawkins in garishly printed full-body catsuits hitting sky-high falsettos, it felt like an elaborate act, a performance of…
After a guest-free set during the first weekend of Coachella, Post Malone welcomed both Jelly Roll and Ed Sheeran during his second go-around last night (April 20) in Indio, Ca. Jelly Roll joined eight songs in for “Losers,” their collaboration from Malone’s 2024 album F-1 Trillion. The artist will also open for Malone’s BIG ASS…
In a recap of this year’s Grammy Awards on his podcast, Indiecast, veteran music critic Steven Hyden critiqued Doechii’s performance as “very theater kid, in a way that a lot of pop artists are nowadays. Where it’s like, you look at someone like Lauryn Hill who is just as multi-talented—acting, singing, rapping—and there’s just something…
TAKAAT began (and still operate) as the rhythm section to Mdou Moctar, the breakout Nigerien rock band named for its charismatic frontman. This puts Ahmoudou Madassane (guitar/vocals), bassist Mikey Coltun (the sole American in the group), and drummer Souleymane Ibrahim in the same realm as Calexico. That indie band started out as part of alt-country…
Steven Paul Smith was born in Omaha in 1969 and raised outside Dallas, moving to Portland, Oregon, as a teenager to live with his father—or perhaps more pointedly, to get away from his abusive stepfather. In high school, Smith began to go by a first name that he felt suited him more, Elliott, and recorded…
Four Tet, Orbital, Paul Oakenfold, Mogwai and Deftones frontman Chino Moreno are among the artists crafting remixes for the aptly named Mixes of a Lost World, which recasts material from the Cure’s acclaimed 2024 comeback album Songs of a Lost World. The new volume is out June 13 from Fiction/Capitol, and the Cure are donating…
Genres are once again effortlessly obliterated in the music of the impossible-to-classify Richmond, Va.-based Butcher Brown, whose fifth album in as many years, Letters From the Atlantic (Concord) is a deeply felt sonic tour of influences hailing from up, down and all around the Atlantic Ocean. The journey begins at sunrise on Virginia Beach with…
It’s not exactly everyone’s dream to see their mom getting cozy with another celebrity — let alone one in bunny ears. But when Elizabeth Hurley and Billy Ray Cyrus hard-launched their romance on Easter, the 59-year-old English actress’ son, Damian Hurley, handled it like a pro. Taking to Instagram on Sunday, April 20, Elizabeth shared…
Just one day after waving to thousands from his popemobile on Easter Sunday, Pope Francis has died. The Vatican confirmed that the 88-year-old passed away Monday, April 21, following a long battle with double pneumonia and other health issues. “At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the house of the Father,”…
