Billy Corgantells Lars Ulrich he hasn’t been in a room with original Smashing Pumpkins bassist D’Arcy Wretzky in 19 years during an interview on the Metallica drummer’s Beats 1 radio show, “It’s Electric.” Wretzky will not join Corgan, guitarist James Iha and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin in what’s being billed as …
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A Grateful Dead late-career highlight will be celebrated during on August 26th, when Lockn’ Festival headliners Dead & Company – featuring John Mayer with former Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann – will reunite with jazz veteran Branford Marsalis, whose collaboration with the band at Long Island’s …
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On a sunny January afternoon, Paula Jean Swearengin, a 43-year-old accounting clerk and single mother of four from Coal City, West Virginia, steers a red rental SUV up a narrow back road in southern Kanawha County. She points at trailer homes caked in a fine layer of black soot, blown …
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Kenny Chesney has announced plans for his 17th studio album, titled Songs for the Saints and due to arrive July 27th. Consisting of 12 songs and co-produced by Chesney with longtime collaborator Buddy Cannon, Songs for the Saints is Chesney’s first project with his new record label Blue Chair/Warner Bros. …
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The Flaming Lips will revisit their trailblazing career with the band’s first greatest hits collection, a massive three-disc set spanning their entire Warner Bros. catalog. Greatest Hits, Vol. 1, due out June 1st, will boast all of the band’s singles from 1992’s Hit to Death in the Future Head to …
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When country duo Muscadine Bloodline made their first mark in 2016 with the streaming hits “Porch Swing Angel” and “WD-40,” they were still essentially a new group, having formed in 2015. Even so, members Charlie Muncaster and Gary Stanton – two Mobile, Alabama, natives who knew one another through local …
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Welcome to Westworld, the futuristic cowboy-themed amusement park where the robots rise up in arms to rebel against their human masters, while the programmers suffer the bloody vengeance of the creatures they designed. HBO‘s puzzle-solving drama gets a major upgrade in its second season, just because the avenging robots give …
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Patti Smith performs her 1975 epic “Land” in the new trailer for her upcoming concert documentaryHorses: Patti Smith and Her Band. The singer shakes her fists and shrieks the song’s famous locker room showdown scene as the group builds tension with wah-wah guitar and a pulsating kick drum. The clip …
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Leon Bridges contemplates romantic destiny on “Beyond,” a soulful track from his upcoming second LP, Good Thing. “I’m scared to death that she might be it/ That the love is real, that the shoe might fit,” the R&B artist sings over a spare acoustic guitar figure and thumping kick drum. …
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“I still don’t know if I am truly creative,” writes Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson in the introduction to Creative Quest, his new book exploring what it means to be a creator. “At times I feel like I’m a way better student than I am teacher or maker.” Despite winning three Grammys …
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