Balancing back catalog with new music is an evergreen challenge for touring bands, but for veteran folk/rock combo the Head & the Heart, the decision to feature up to 10 songs nightly from their latest album, Aperture, is a pure reflection of their enthusiasm for the material. The group have North American shows on tap…
The long-awaited documentary It’s Never Over: Jeff Buckley will be released theatrically in the United States on Aug. 8 and will be available on HBO and HBO Max in the winter under the Music Box series umbrella. The film was directed by Amy Berg, who is best-known for her West Memphis Three documentary West of…
Beloved New York-reared indie trio Ivy were inactive for the better part of eight years before group member Adam Schlesinger died of COVID-19 during the early phase of the pandemic in 2020. Since then, surviving husband-and-wife duo Dominque Durand and Andy Chase have paid tribute to Schlesinger in a moving video retrospective and overseen several…
“Meadow wanted to say hi,” says the Ting Tings’ Katie White, holding her daughter by the armpits. Meadow, a miniature version of Katie, giggles, chirps “Hi,” waves to me, then skips off to watch her television program. “She had a little puke this morning, so we kept her home from school,” Katie explains. Parenting has…
Adam Met is a part-time professor in Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. But his summer should be more interesting than that of the average PhD. First, as the “A” in the brother band AJR, he’ll be joining the “J” (Jack) and the “R” (Ryan) on select dates of the trio’s new-music-showcasing amphitheater…
Halfway through her Saturday night headlining set at WeHo Pride’s Outloud Music Festival, Lizzo got real. Following a soaring version of her breakout 2016 single “Good as Hell,” the Grammy-winning superstar silently surveyed her warm, welcoming audience. After her public legal battles and mental health struggles of the past few years, it seemed like Lizzo…
Your average cult band might make a handful of great, overlooked albums, split up in frustration, and eventually reunite to play for big festival crowds after the world belatedly begins to appreciate their brilliance. But Sparks, the band founded by Los Angeles brothers Ron and Russell Mael in the early-’70s, has stuck it out for…
Big Thief are in a New York state of mind on their upcoming sixth album, Double Infinity, which will emerge Sept. 5 from 4AD. The nine-track project was recorded last winter at the Big Apple’s Power Station studio in daily nine-hour improvised sessions with such collaborators as Alena Spanger, Caleb Michel, Hannah Cohen, Jon Nellen,…
In what will be one of their first shows with an as-yet-unidentified new drummer, Foo Fighters have signed on as a headliner for the Corona Capital festival, which will be held Nov. 14-16 at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City. Chappell Roan and Linkin Park will anchor the other two nights. As previously reported, the…
The holidays are always filled with music that imbues the season with a magical tone. Finding the best songs for each kind of celebration isn’t a worry this coming holiday. A new Christmas album is dropping from musical artist ALYA on December 8th, which promises to add new songs to everyone’s favorite classics. The playlist…
