“Connection is a hell of a thing…it’s the life jacket we all need,” says Adam Duritz, frontman of Counting Crows, a band that’s built their 30-year career through heartfelt live performances, emotional lyrics, and recurring, world-building themes in their songs. Ironic, then, that growing up, Duritz says he didn’t know how to make connections with…
“The arts are a wonderful way to keep people’s legacies alive,” Ben Harper tells me. He’s been doing a bit of that lately: he appears in the upcoming Jeff Buckley documentary It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. And he mourns another artist who is no longer with…
Artists age differently—it comes through in their work. Some turn contemplative, some opt for acceptance, some even refuse to admit they’re getting older (looking at you, Rolling Stones). On Silver Shade, famed Bauhaus vocalist and post-punk pioneer Peter Murphy reveals how he chooses to face his golden years: with an album of grand, baroque defiance…
You can’t judge a songwriter by their first hit. That’s certainly true for Dan Wilson, who topped the charts and earned his first Grammy nomination with Semisonic’s 1998 earworm “Closing Time.” In the 27 years since that song’s release, Wilson has written for a wide range of artists, including Adele, LeAnn Rimes, John Legend, Panic!…
Weezer, Bright Eyes, Janelle Monáe, Sylvan Esso, Aurora and Car Seat Headrest will make some noise at the 52nd edition of the Bumbershoot Arts & Music Festival, which will be held Aug. 30-31 on the campus of the 74-acre Seattle Center. Also set to perform are Indigo De Souza, the Linda Lindas, hometown punk favorites…
Andrew Farriss invited high school classmate Michael Hutchence to join his band Doctor Dolphin in Sydney, Australia in the mid-’70s. Over the next few years, Farriss’s brothers Jon and Tim joined the band along with Garry Beers and Kirk Pengilly, as the sextet changed their name to the Farris Brothers, the Vegetables, and finally the…
MTS Management Group and its imprint, MTS Records, are rolling into spring 2025 with a lineup as varied and heartfelt as the season itself. From twang-soaked country to bruised-but-beautiful rock, here’s what you need to know. Country purists, perk up: Richard Lynch returns with “The Phone Call,”(May 2nd) a classic-leaning ballad that feels plucked straight…
What happens when a rollercoaster drops you straight into a dancefloor—and the headliner is techno royalty instead of a cartoon mascot? You get THRILL CITY: a genre-smashing, mind-bending, fully-immersive cultural detonation that just rewrote the rules of nightlife. On March 22, RASA, the breakout startup everyone should be talking about, transformed Six Flags Magic Mountain…
Robert Glasper will reprise his artist-in-residence role at Blue Note Jazz Festival’s Black Radio Experience when it returns Aug. 29-31 to Meritage Resort and Spa in Napa, Ca. The event will also feature performances by the Roots and Questlove, Jazmine Sullivan, Hiatus Kaiyote, Slum Village, Lupe Fiasco, Terrace Martin, Willow, Warren G and Esperanza Spalding. The festival is named after a…
Beck may be touring with a symphony this year, but that won’t stop him from joining the lineup for the 17th edition of the Outside Lands festival, during which he’ll be backed by an orchestra on the event’s Aug. 8 opening day in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Beck launched the orchestral concept in 2024…
