Russell Simmons says he was “shocked” to learn T La Rock and Jazzy Jay’s 1984 single “It’s Yours” was produced by Rick Rubin, a white Jewish kid attending college at New York University and making music from his Weinstein Hall dorm room. Simmons, who had already established Rush Management by the early ’80s, was well…
Patrick Wolf had a moment back in 2007. It was a time when Pitchfork had the power to make or break a band, and the publication awarded The Magic Position, the erstwhile wunderkind’s third LP, the much-vaunted Best New Music designation. Never mind that Wolf already had plenty of accolades in his native U.K. and…
John C. Reilly inhabits the spirit of the title character of Jack White’s “Archbishop Harold Holmes” in a new video for the song directed by Gilbert Trejo. Set in a southern church replete with a glowing neon cross, the clip finds Reilly, as Holmes, passionately channelling the Lord to a handful of congregants before the…
Though the Cure is not remix-averse, they don’t seem to give over every single song to others like some of their contemporaries do. Some fans consider Mixed Up—their 1990 collection of remixes, rare tracks, and a new song (“Never Enough”)—a proper entry in the band’s discography. Twenty-eight years later, the band released Torn Down on…
For San Francisco-born artist Danny Lannon, the creative force behind Vacances, music has never been just about sound — it’s about crafting a feeling, a world, a visual and emotional language people can step into. After fronting electro-pop band The Frail and performing alongside acts like Justice, Hot Chip, and TV on the Radio, Lannon…
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:…
