I love Wrap Season. It’s a reminder of who we actually are. The data is astounding, as YouTube and Amazon jumped in this year to join Apple and Spotify. Although there are lingering questions about the transparency and legitimacy of the algorithms that got us here, there are always interesting insights. I was expecting more…
Eagles, Stevie Nicks, Rod Stewart Kings of Leon, Lainey Wilson, Teddy Swims, Lorde, Jon Batiste, Tyler Childers and David Byrne will headline this year’s New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which runs from April 23-May 3 at Fair Grounds Race Course. As of now, this is Nicks’ only confirmed show of 2026 and her first…
One of 2025’s most stunning records arrived without fanfare last May. QUIET, the latest full-length album from Munich-based, German-American singer-songwriter Caro Kelley, is a soul-pop masterwork that deserves to be heard. Across eight impeccably crafted originals, Kelley reveals an artist who has fully come into her own: confident, boundless, and writing songs with the purpose…
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong is a unique star, a bright constellation within the multiverse of jam bands. This Maryland-bred quartet fuses funk, rock, and electrifying showmanship into what they call “high-energy psychedelic funk.” Since forming in 2009 at the University of Maryland, they’ve built a devoted following through relentless touring (as many as 200 shows…
Can our culture trust the source of its poison to be the source of its medicine? (Illustration by Gremlin via Getty Images) “The key that makes this product different” — came the excited voice, riding the dual stimulants of artisanal coffee shop caffeine and San Francisco Bay ocean air — “is it’s about human-to-human interaction….
Courtney Love opens up about her life on and offstage in the new documentary Antiheroine, which will premiere early next year at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. The event runs from Jan. 22 to Feb. 1 and is the last in Park City and Salt Lake City before uprooting to Boulder, Co., in 2027….
The first new Afghan Whigs music since their 2022 album How Do You Burn? has arrived today (Dec. 10) in the surprising form of covers of Minneapolis indie pop band Poliça’s “Fake Life” and U.K. duo Still Corners’ “Downtown.” See visualizers for the recordings below. “Both of these songs were born out of soundcheck jams,”…
Billie Eilish and James Cameron push the limits of technology in the first trailer for HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR (LIVE IN 3D), which will be released March 20 by Paramount, Darkroom Records, Interscope Films and Lightstorm Entertainment. Watch the clip below. “We’re using tech that’s never been used before,” Cameron says at…
Sometimes you don’t have enough tracks for an album, but you want to put more music out into the world than a single. The EP is the awkward middle child of musical formats, but it’s endlessly useful for acts at every level of the industry, from rising new artists to one-off collaborations and experimental detours…
When Mike Sartain, who released his latest EP, Push On Through, in April and goes by the stage name Sartain, saw the back cover of Rancid’s 1994 album Let’s Go for the first time, in ninth grade — with a mohawked, leather-clad Tim Armstrong flipping off the camera — he knew that everything he had…
