Guided By Voices may have just dropped their best album in decades — Earth Man Blues — but Robert Pollard and Co. aren’t taking a break any time soon. Pollard’s side project Cub Scout Bowling Pins announced Tuesday, May 4th, that their LP, Clang Clang Ho!, will be released July …
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Dawn Richard, Second Line R&B artist Dawn Richard has taken a winding path through her nearly 20-year career. Now, she finds herself on the North Carolina indie-rock label Merge with her sixth LP,Second Line. It may be an unexpected place for her, but the record feels like a culmination of …
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When Ashley Monroe wakes in the morning, she often heads straight to her closet. “I hear melodies in here,” says the singer-songwriter, calling from inside the cramped space during a recent interview. In the quiet early morning hours of 2018 and 2019, Monroe heard much more than melodies in her …
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Years & Years, Olly Alexander‘s musical project, appeared on The Late Late Show perform his recent single “Starstruck.” The stylish virtual performance features the singer getting out of bed and taking the track from a greenhouse to a garden to the stage. Accompanied by several backup singers, Alexander gives the …
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After a five-year break from songwriting, Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz experienced a surge of creativity not long ago, creating an ambitious group of songs that flowed into each other. The result is the four-track Butter Miracle, Suite One,due May 21st, which will be the band’s first release since 2014’s …
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Van Morrison has dropped a new song, “Love Should Come With a Warning,” from his upcoming double-album, Latest Record Project: Volume 1, set to arrive May 7th via Exile/BMG. “Love Should Come With a Warning” is a vintage bit of heartbroken soul, although the song’s snappy instrumentation and Morrison’s lyrics …
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Billy Gibbons remembers Jim Morrison and Gram Parsons while driving around Joshua Tree in the video for “Desert High,” the latest single from the ZZ Top rocker’s upcoming album Hardware. On the track, Gibbons sing-speaks about Morrison (“The desert toad takes me for a ride/The Lizard King’s always by my …
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Jonathan Taplin wasn’t present at the creation, but in rock & roll terms, he came close enough. He witnessed Bob Dylan going electric at the Newport Folk Festival, saw Jimi Hendrix and many others at Monterey Pop, flew into Woodstock while working for the Band, helped coordinate George Harrison’s Concert …
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The Mountain Goats have released a tender new song, “Mobile,” from their upcoming album, Dark in Here, out June 25th via Merge. “Mobile” boasts a nimble mix of guitars and piano, and the lyrics find frontman John Darnielle recounting the Biblical story of Jonah, recast with a Southern twist and …
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Taylor Swift stopped by The Late Show to put some rumors about her song “Hey Stephen” to rest. The singer, who recently released Fearless: Taylor’s Version, spoke with host Stephen Colbert about the song, confirming that, unfortunately, it’s not about him. “No, Stephen,” Swift said in response to Colbert questioning …
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