Music

When Conor McPherson was writing his Bob Dylan jukebox musical, Girl From the North Country, he didn’t want to include your usual Dylan fare — he wanted to plumb the deep cuts. The Irish playwright owned about five Dylan albums when he was approached with the idea of writing a …

There’s a song for every situation and right now R.E.M.‘s 1987 hit “It’s the End of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” feels particularly relevant. Michael Stipe has covered the song in part in a new coronavirus safety video, reminding us to stay home and be …

Perfume Genius, a.k.a. Mike Hadreas, has dropped his new song “On the Floor.” The track is off the upcoming album SetMy Heart on Fire Immediately, out May 15th via Matador Records. Directed by Hadreas himself, the song’s video features Hadreas topless, smoking a cigar. He dances around a field of …

Music rights management organization BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) has announced that it will postpone its 27th annual Latin Awards. In a press statement sent on Tuesday afternoon, the organization cited concerns over the recent outbreak of COVID-19. “The health and safety of our employees and affiliates is our number one …

Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett‘s love of the wah-wah pedal is legendary. So it was no act of bravery for him to agree to a wah-wah duel with challenger Mrs. Smith, the beehived comic actress/guitar slinger who called him out on Instagram in January 2019. “I’m the number-one wah-wah abuser,” Smith …

Lil Wayne has dropped his new video for “Mama Mia,” a highlight from the rapper’s latest LP Funeral. The visual stuffs a lot into its four-minute runtime: Multiple Lil Waynes, a golden toilet (and matching golden plungers), dancers, the rapper shooting paintballs at mannequins while wearing a Margiela apron, a …

For all her goofy singles – and there’s been a lot of them – Katy Perry has a way of working a ballad when she needs to. On Wednesday night, she released her latest, “Never Worn White.” On the tender piano-led ballad, Perry addresses her fears about getting married. “But …

As a young, aspiring “girl singer” arriving in Nashville in the early Sixties, Loretta Lynn found a mentor in established artist Patsy Cline. Like Cline, Lynn was signed to Decca Records, produced by Owen Bradley, and a regular performer on the Grand Ole Opry. She may have landed in Music …

Tame Impala served as the guides for a heady nostalgia trip with their performance of “Lost in Yesterday” on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday. The Australian psych-rock outfit delivered a pristine rendition of the Slow Rush track, which is anchored by a thick bassline and crisp, clever drumming, while a flurry …

Jarvis Cocker will be releasing Beyond the Pale —his first original album sinceFurther Complications in 2009, and his debut with his band Jarv Is… — on May 1st via Rough Trade. The band shared a teaser for the LP on Monday with the new single “House Music All Night Long,” …