With last year’s debut album The Lost Boy, YBN Cordae established himself as a favorite among fans of thoughtful lyric-driven hip-hop. Earlier this summer, he was one of several rappers arrested in Louisville during peaceful protests over Breonna Taylor’s killing. On both a musical and social level, he’s emerging as a significant young force in […]
Chris Stapleton – "Starting Over"
The last time Chris Stapleton released an album was in 2017, with the two-part From A Room. (We ranked the pair as one of the best country albums of 2017.) But Stapleton’s popped up plenty since. His star has risen to the point where, in the past year, he spent time appearing in Game Of […]
Greg Dulli & Mark Lanegan – "Girl From The North Country" (Bob Dylan Cover)
Over the years, both Afghan Whigs maestro Greg Dulli and Screaming Trees/Queens Of The Stone Age growler Mark Lanegan have proven extremely adept at performing other people’s songs. For Record Store Day this weekend, the old Twilight Singers pals have teamed up on a soulful and ghostly piano-led rendition of the early Bob Dylan heater […]
Hear Prince’s Previously Unreleased Studio Run-Through Of “Forever In My Life”
The upcoming deluxe reissue of Prince’s 1987 opus Sign O’ The Times will feature a whopping 45 unreleased studio tracks recorded between May 1979 and July 1987. Prince’s estate and Warner Records have already shared several of these, including “Witness 4 The Prosecution (Version 1)” and “(Version 2),” “I Could Never Take The Place Of […]
Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan Team to Cover Bob Dylan's 'Girl From the North Country'
Greg Dulli’s song “A Ghost,” taken from his 2020 solo LP Random Desire, will be released on a blue vinyl 7″ this Saturday (Aug. 29) for Record Store Day, with a new B-side cover of Bob Dylan’s “Girl From The North Country” featuring long-time collaborator Mark Lanegan. Listen to the song below. Dulli, frontman of the Afghan Whigs, […]
Elton John on Today’s Hits: ‘They’re Not Real Songs’
Elton John has spoken out on the current state of modern pop music, and it’s not pretty. “Everybody else there’s four or five writers on (a track),” John told BBC Radio 6 Music. “You look at most of the records in the charts – they’re not real songs. They’re bits and pieces and it’s nice […]
Prince Estate Drops 'Forever In My Life (Early Vocal Studio Run-Through)'
Over the past few weeks, Prince’s estate has steadily released a slew of unheard tracks from the prolific artist’s vault. The songs will be on the upcoming Sign O’ the Times box set and today, they shared “Forever In My Life (Early Vocal Studio Run-Through).” The track, which was recorded on Aug. 8, 1986 at Prince’s Galpin Boulevard […]
Lars Ulrich Says Filming 'S&M2' Makes Metallica Fun
“Doing projects like this makes it fun to be in Metallica,” drummer Lars Ulrich told Kerrang about S&M2, their 2o-song collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony, which releases tomorrow (Aug. 28). Though it was the second project with a symphony, and the band has been breaking boundaries since forming in 1981, Ulrich still offered, “There’s always […]
Molly Parden – "Kitchen Table"
Georgia native Molly Parden has been part of the touring band for artists such as Faye Webster, Sam Outlaw, and David Ramirez, as well as a session vocalist on dozens of records in her adoptive hometown of Nashville. Now she’s got a project of her own in the works, an EP called Rosemary that’s dropping […]
Nap Eyes – "Snake Oil" & "Child's Romance"
The perennially satisfying Halifax indie band Nap Eyes released their excellent album Snapshot Of A Beginner back in March. Today they’re back with two B-sides from those sessions, the drowsy but infectious “Snake Oil” and the remarkably poppy and upbeat guitar banger “Child’s Romance.” Here’s singer Nigel Chapman on the former: “Snake oil” is a […]