Richard Hell is known for many things — his short-lived stint in Television, his success with the Voidoids,his long career as a downtown poet. But maybe best of all, he’s known as the handsome lothario of the 1970s NYC punk scene. Yet when cultural historian Carlo McCormick asked Hell about …
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The newest chapter of Bruce Springsteen‘s ongoing live download series spotlights a show he played at The Roxy in West Hollywood, California on October 18th, 1975. Born To Run had come out a little less than two months before the show and the hype around the album was reaching a …
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Here lies Taylor Swift‘s reputation — or at least the final nail in the coffin of herReputation era. Since its release last November, Swift’s sixth album has kept a deserved hold on the pop narrative of the last year, but on Friday, the album and its singles were all suspiciously …
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The brutality of the international drug trade was front and center this week at the trial of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, with one witness testifying in chillingly calm tones about dozens of gangland murders.The only catch? El Chapo wasn’t the murderer in question. In a riveting back and forth with …
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Spiritualized will embark on a 2019 North American tour next spring in support of their latest album, And Nothing Hurt. The band will get things underway March 22nd with a set at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee. The tour will then criss-cross the United States over the next …
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Makaya McCraven’s set at New York’s (Le) Poisson Rouge on Sunday touched on a universe of musical styles. Driving funk, hypnotic reggae, loping odd-time vamps, hectic Afrobeat-esque workouts and more all found their way into the mix as the Chicago drummer and his 11-piece all-star band — featuring a roll …
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By the time you finish reading this sentence, three new songs will have been uploaded onto Spotify.This time tomorrow, the number will have risen above 20,000 songs — a daily deluge of music which would take you a month and a half to listen to . . . without sleep. …
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In unlikely beef news, Mötley Crüe’s Tommy Lee took shots at Travis Scott over similar use of a circular stage roller coaster that Lee claims he pioneered. Scott has been spinning on one during hisAstroworld tour. On Wednesday, Lee posted videos from both a Mötley Crüe show on their “Final …
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At midnight on Tuesday, R&B singer Trey Songz released a new double album to celebrate his 34th birthday. There is a whole lot of music here: 10 slow and sweaty numbers with only Songz (titled 11), followed by 10 more slow and sweaty numbers with collaborators ranging from Swae Lee …
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Smokey Robinson reveals in a new interview that, in the aftermath of Aretha Franklin, he regrets not recording in the studio with the Queen of Soul. “It was my close friend and I loved her very much; I still do. She was my buddy and she was one of those …
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