Bruce Springsteen has quickly written, recorded and released a new song, “Streets of Minneapolis,” in response to the shooting deaths of two civilians, Alex Pretti and Renee Good, who were protesting the actions of ICE agents during immigration raids in the state. The track appears to be available only on YouTube and Instagram at the…
If you want to know who’s on the rise in live music, The National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) just dropped its annual cheat sheet of the most exciting up and coming artists of the past year. These aren’t just artists trending on playlists, but bona fide performers driving around the country, unglamourously roughing it, and…
No one enjoys Crispian Mills’ sense of humor more than the Kula Shaker frontman himself. His conversation is punctuated by chuckles and laced with a sly wit that I don’t recall from our previous interviews for Kula Shaker’s first two albums, K (1996) and Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts (1999). At the time, the group was…
It wasn’t that long ago that Kenzie and Laila Crowe lived through a tornado. As the sky turned a putrid shade and sirens went off, the sisters quickly grabbed their cats, Poe (named for Edgar Allan) and Cherry (likely named for their love of all things retro) and headed into the basement of the family…
Lucinda Williams has made a career out of listening to other musicians. On Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, the songwriter’s classic 1998 record, she sings, “We’d put on ZZ Top and turn ‘em up real loud,” as if it’s a mission statement. Williams has also made a run of six “jukebox” albums since 2021…
It began, like so many memorable music stories do, with a British icon and the younger upstart who loved his style. The icon was one Robert Palmer—brilliant, eclectic, a cosmopolitan gentleman of the world but criminally underrated. The upstart was a young troublemaker named Nigel John Taylor, the future bassist with Duran Duran. “I got…
Emerging from Boulder’s eclectic music scene, MYND READER steps forward with a debut album rooted in raw rock and roll, hard-won clarity, and a renewed sense of purpose. Their self-titled record, arriving January 30, 2026, isn’t just a set of songs. It’s a reckoning, a journey pulled from personal chaos and rebuilt into something cathartic,…
Lizzo’s last proper tour visited arenas and festivals in 2023, but the artist is hunkering down in much smaller musical environments next month. She’ll perform at Blue Note Jazz Club locations in Los Angeles Feb. 20-22 and New York Feb. 27-28 and March 1 as part of shows featuring “unique jazz and flute arrangements” of…
Fans salivating for the upcoming James Cameron-directed Billie Eilish concert film will have to wait a bit longer. Per a social media post from Cameron, HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR (LIVE IN 3D) is moving from a March 20 to May 8 release as “we’re refining the cut, dialing in cool, new 3D…
Sleaford Mods’ Jason Williamson strides back and forth on a bare stage: no backdrop, no instruments, no visuals. He’s wearing his “at home” clothes, his hands planted on his hips or behind his back in his version of a runway pose. He shouts into the microphone like he’s possessed, like he’s struggling with severe mental…
