Jon Wurster has been the longtime drummer for Superchunk and the Mountain Goats, but in his work with the Bob Mould band, he had a chance to fill the throne of one of his heroes:Hüsker Dü’sGrant Hart, who died Thursday at 56. Here, Wurster remembers Hart as a force of …

R.E.M. unearthed 20 previously unheard demos for an upcoming remastered 25th anniversary reissue of their eighth LP, Automatic for the People, out November 10th via Craft Recordings. The four-disc Deluxe Edition includes the unreleased tracks, including the long-rumored “Devil Rides Backwards” and “Mike’s Pop Song.” The latter tune is now …

UPDATE:A memorial for Zazu will be held on Sunday, September 17th at Fort Houston in Nashville. Zazu’s family and friends have asked anyone wishing to make a donation for the service and Zazu’s remaining medical expenses to visit her YouCaring site. **** Jessi Zazu, the guitarist, singer and co-founder of …

“We were working to get it right for you guys,” Louis C.K. says, addressing the crowd at the sold-out Saturday afternoon premiere of I Love You Daddy, the “secret” movie the stand-up/showrunner/filmmaker slipped into the Toronto International Film Festival‘s lineup without build-up or warning. By “you guys,” he didn’t mean …

Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy re-team for the upcoming LP If All I Was Was Black, the soul singer’s third collaboration with the Wilco frontman. On Monday, NPR unveiled the first single and title track from the album, which finds Staples tackling contemporary issues regarding race in America under President …

The Rolling Stones celebrate womanhood through the centuries in the animated lyric video for “She’s a Rainbow,” a track off the band’s Their Satanic Majesties Request. The band will release a 50th anniversary reissue of their 1967 psychedelic opus on September 22nd. In the kaleidoscopic video, which premiered at Jezebel, …

Janis Joplin is about to lose it. It’s 1969, she’s just finished a show at the Fillmore East in New York, and the group in charge of the theater’s so-called liquid light show, Joshua Light Show, has projected a one-word question on the screen behind where the bands play: “More?” …

An hour before dawn on a rooftop in Raqqa, you can see the Milky Way. The Islamic State’s embattled capital in Syria, once home to hundreds of thousands of people, has been bombed back into darkness, but from the city center comes the trancelike recitation of the call to prayer. …

Metallica‘sJames Hetfield fell into an open trap door during a performance of “Now That We’re Dead” in Amsterdam on Monday night.“Is everybody ok?” Hefield asked the crowd after falling over. “Yes, I’m ok. My ego, not so much. But we’re fine. Hurt my feelings a little bit.” A representative for …

Paul Cauthen is a seasoned road warrior, stretching back to his days as one-half of Texas act Sons of Fathers. Now nearly one year removed from the release of his solo debut My Gospel, Cauthen is planning to hit the road again this fall, and he’s bringing some friends along …