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A few years ago, Conor Oberst was attending a Christmas party at Nate Walcott’s home in Los Angeles when he told his Bright Eyes bandmate he had an idea. “It kind of just came out of my mouth,” Oberst, 40, recalls: “’Let’s do it. Let’s make a record.’” To Walcott, …

In celebration of the Grateful Dead‘s Blues for Allah turning 45 this week, Devendra Banhart released a dreamy cover of “Franklin’s Tower.” Released on Amazon Music, the rendition is significantly slower and more cerebral than the cheery original that Jerry Garcia sang the lead on. “God save the child who …

Ahead of the release of his new album By the Fire this month, Thurston Moore has shared the 12-minute single “Siren.” Accompanied by a short film on Bandcamp, “Siren” is described as “the soundtrack to an ancient coming-of-age mermaid ritual.” Mermaids swim in the water as the track transcends from …

Miley Cyrus performed a cover of Billie Eilish’s “My Future” for the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge this week. Although not in the usual Live Lounge studio due to Covid-19, Cyrus and her band picked a warmly lit stage for their performance, which fit the vibe of the Eilish cover …

“As long as I am strong, I am young,” Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, the reggae architect whose deified, six-decade musical career helped popularize the genre, toldRolling Stoneearlier this year. The ska-reggae legend sounds stronger than ever onGot to Be Tough, his first album in more than a decade. Co-produced by Zak …

It’s been 10 years since Katy Perry’s mega-blockbuster Teenage Dream set an almost stratospherically high bar for modern Californicated pop bliss in the 21st century, becoming the first album to land five songs at the top of the charts since Michael Jackson’s Bad. That’s a tough act to follow, and …

Chris Stapleton looks ahead to a brighter future in the new song “Starting Over,” the title track to his fourth studio album, due November 13th. “Well, the road rolls out like a welcome mat/to a better place than the one we’re at,” he sings in the shuffling number, written with …

Nearly two weeks after the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally drew hundreds of thousands of people to South Dakota amid a pandemic, between 70 to 100 cases of Covid-19 throughout the United States have been traced back to that event. CNN reports that contact tracers in Minnesota have already tied 35 coronavirus …

Before the dusty down-and-out protagonist is ready to give up on life in “Yuma,” one of Justin Townes Earle‘s earliest songs, he calls his mom. “There ain’t nothing I fear,” he tells her, “so much as being alone.” Released in 2007, ”Yuma” is astonishing in its emotional tenderness, a song …

Christopher Nolan‘s much-anticipated Tenet film release may have been continually delayed, but music from the thriller has arrived. Travis Scott has released the new song, “The Plan,” which appears in the film and its soundtrack. The track was produced by the film’s composer Ludwig Göransson. “As we were finishing the …