To say Kitt Wakeley’s career is on a positive trajectory would be an understatement. In 2023 he won his first Grammy® and two years later, in 2025 he produced 3 Grammy nominated projects and was on a 4th Grammy nominated album as an arranger for Radhika Vekaria’s New Age project, “Warriors of Light.” In a…
The six Australian music savants in King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have twice (!?!) released five different albums in a single year, zig-zagging from thrash metal and epic, heavy prog to rave-ready bangers and bedroom electronica in the blink of an eye. The group is once again in welcome but foreign territory with the…
Wilco will rock out during its Sky Blue Sky destination festival in Riviera Maya, Mexico, next year alongside a lineup featuring Dr. Dog, Dinosaur Jr., MJ Lenderman & the Wind and Waxahatchee. The Jeff Tweedy-led group will play three sets of their own at the Jan. 15-19, 2026, event, which was planned to debut in…
Christian McBride has enlisted the Police’s Sting and Andy Summers for a jazzy, updated version of the group’s 1983 song “Murder by Numbers,” which serves as the lead single from his upcoming album with his Big Band, Without Further Ado, Vol. 1. The project will be available Aug. 29 from Mack Avenue. Sting, Summers and…
Jarvis Cocker formed Pulp in Sheffield in 1978, and kept the band going for about 15 years before anybody else cared about it. Over the course of Pulp’s early albums for Fire Records, though, Cocker gradually became a charismatic vocalist and a devastatingly intelligent lyricist. And piece by piece, he assembled the classic Pulp lineup:…
How can this much be left? Of the 83 songs on Bruce Springsteen’s Tracks II, an overwhelming box of seven unreleased albums (the largest drop of completed records ever?), 74 have never been officially heard. That means they didn’t make it into the first four-disc Tracks (from 27 years ago), or the generously stuffed boxes for Born to Run, Darkness…
When she was in college, Zoë Dominguez challenged herself to write a feminist rock song. She knew that assigning personal stakes to a big social issue would be difficult, but that was the whole point. “It’s hard to write any kind of feminist song,” she says from her home in Memphis, “because you run the…
Having already released an unexpected collaboration with Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold on the single “Don’t Put It All on Me,” Noah Cyrus has announced team-ups with Blake Shelton, Ella Langley and Smog leader Bill Callahan on her second album, I WANT MY LOVED ONES TO GO WITH ME. The project will be released July 11…
You hear Mary Halvorson play a guitar once—it sticks with you. Her tone, both liquid and spiky, burrows into your nervous system on contact. Using a delay pedal and digital effects, she flattens, smears, and discombobulates single notes, which creates an eerie, addictive effect. Her darting, slippery approach makes her songs simultaneously vaporous, brittle, and…
A sightless, millennial African-American who lived an itinerant childhood before finding her community in Seattle, Brittany Davis has long described herself as a vessel through which any number of musical spirits freely move. In the rock-leaning Painted Shield with mentor Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam, she’s a Swiss army knife of a vocal harmonist and…
