Look out, Mariah: Brenda Lee is gunning for that #1 spot once again. Last December Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree,” one of several holiday classics that have begun to surge back up the charts every yuletide season thanks to streaming, hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for three weeks, 65 […]
Stream Dan Deacon’s Venom: The Last Dance Soundtrack
Dan Deacon has lived a fascinating professional life, going from Baltimore art-kid party-starter to blog sensation to, now, blockbuster film-score composer. Deacon has been doing movie work since 2011, when Francis Ford Coppola recruited him to do the soundtrack for his experimental feature Twixt. Since then, Deacon has scored many more movies — some documentary, […]
Disclosure – “Arachnids”
It doesn’t get much more Halloweeny than spiders, so the time is right for Disclosure’s new single. At times the “Arachnids” beat does indeed sound like little eight-legged creatures skittering about — maybe cyborg spiders rather than the real thing? Guy Lawrence, the chief architect of this one, says it emerged from “an ever-evolving creative […]
Watch Bruce Springsteen Play His Hits For Howard Stern, Kamala Harris Rally
Bruce Springsteen had a busy day yesterday. Today marks the release of Road Diary, the new documentary about Springsteen’s recent tour with his E Street Band; it’s streaming on Hulu and Disney+ now. To promote that documentary, Springsteen sat for a long interview with Howard Stern yesterday. During his appearance, Springsteen played off-the-cuff versions of […]
Kate Bush Is Planning A New Album: “I’ve Got Lots Of Ideas”
The Kate Bush resurgence of 2022 is well behind us now, but the Kate Bush resurgence of 2024-2025 could be upon us. Bush has a new music video for an old song out today, and she’s talking about a pressing desire to record new music. The video is called “Little Shrew (Snowflake).” It’s set to […]
The Story Behind Every Song On Soccer Mommy’s New Album Evergreen
Once she knew that her new album was going to be about grief and longing for closure, Sophie Allison rethought the way she was writing songs. Her last album Sometimes, Forever, produced by Oneohtrix Point Never, was heavily based around creepy electronics, and the two albums before that (Clean and Color Theory) were defined by […]
Lady Gaga – “Disease”
Between starring in Joker: Folie À Deux and releasing its companion album Harlequin, Lady Gaga has somehow found time to record more new music. (Harlequin is not the follow-up to 2020’s Chromatica; she has said that #7 is officially arriving in February. And considering how badly Joker flopped at the box office, some new, hopefully […]
Sade Shares “Young Lion,” First New Song In Six Years
Earlier in September, the nonprofit Red Hot announced TRAИƧA, a 46-track compilation featuring Sade, Grouper, André 3000, Adrianne Lenker, and more. We’ve already heard Lauren Auder + Wendy & Lisa of the Revolution covering Prince’s “I Would Die 4 U” and Sam Smith reimagining “Ever New” with its original writer, Beverly Glenn-Copeland. Now, we get […]
Sebadoh Announce First Show In Almost Five Years
It’s been almost five years since lo-fi torchbearers Sebadoh performed live in support of their 2019 album Act Surprised, which was their first album in six years. But if you’re in Seattle (or willing to travel), then you can see Lou Barlow & Co. at the Showbox for the 13th Annual SMooCH (Seattle Musicians for […]
Helen Mirren Laments That Kurt Cobain Died Before GPS Was Invented
I know what you’re thinking — that’s a doozy of a headline. But there it is. Two seemingly unrelated concepts — deceased Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain and satellite technology — put together by Academy Award-winning actor Dame Helen Mirren. And no, context doesn’t really help make it make sense…? Appearing on Evgeny Lebedev’s Brave New […]