Kurt Cobain’s rattyMTV Unplugged sweater recently sold at auction for more than $340,000. It’s a jaw-dropping haul for a music-adjacent item… until you consider that “The Scream,” a painting by artist and political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe and the focal point of Pink Floyd‘s The Wall marketing campaign, previously sold for …
Read More »Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers Team Up for 2020 Tour
Sturgill Simpson and Tyler Childers have announced dates for their anticipated 2020 tour. Dubbed A Good Look’n Tour, the trek kicks off in February in Birmingham, Alabama, and winds its way across the country before wrapping up with a home state show in Louisville, Kentucky. Both Simpson and Childers are …
Read More »Hear Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' 'Watchman' End Credits Score
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have shared the full end credits music for HBO series Watchman via Nine Inch Nails’ YouTube channel. The ambient, pulsating track, which played for two minutes at the end of Sunday’s premiere episode, clocks in at nearly five minutes in total. The video includes the …
Read More »Kanye West, a Punctual Man Who Never Misses Release Dates, Announces Christmas Album
Watch The Throne 2. Yeezus 2. Good Ass Job. Yandhi. Cruel Winter. Turbo Grafx 16. Child Rebel Soldier. That unnamed, but rumored Kanye West and Drake collaborative album. There’s a vast and tangled graveyard of all the announced, scrapped, and retooled Kanye projects that will never see the light of …
Read More »Rolling Loud and the NYPD Pulled 5 Rappers From the Festival. The Repercussions Are Only Beginning
On October 12th and 13th, five New York City rappers — Pop Smoke, Casanova, Don Q, Sheff G, and 22gz — were scheduled to perform at Rolling Loud, the popular rap festival that was finally making its debut in the birthplace of hip-hop after dominating Los Angeles, San Francisco, and …
Read More »Keith Urban Announces Las Vegas Residency
Keith Urban will become the latest country music star to set up shop in Las Vegas. The reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year has announced a 12-concert residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace next year. Kicking off January 10th, the run, titled “Keith Urban Live – Las Vegas,” will …
Read More »The Beatles Announce 'The Singles Collection' Vinyl Box Set
Twenty-three of the Beatles‘ biggest singles, “faithfully reproduced” in their original 7″ form, will feature in the limited edition box set The Singles Collection. The 46-song set spans from 1962’s “Love Me Do”/”P.S. I Love You” — presented here with its original U.S. sleeve — to 1970’s “Let It Be”/”You …
Read More »The Curious Case of 'Wonderwall' and What It Might Say About the Future of Streaming
“I’ve just done a tour in America with Smashing Pumpkins, and the sight of two goths, one in a Rancid T-shirt, one in a Kiss T-shirt, with their arms around each other, singing “Wonderwall” in Arkansas, is not something you see every day. What is it about that song? It’s …
Read More »Hayley Kiyoko Knows She Is 'Too Sensitive for This Shit'
Hayley Kiyoko has learned a lot in the year-and-a-half since she released her debut album, Expectations. Most of those lessons were learned on the road during the months she spent headlining tours globally. “As an artist, there’s no book on how to survive tour and how to take care of …
Read More »Frank Zappa Marks 50th Anniversary of 'Hot Rats' With Massive Reissue
Frank Zappa‘s estate will mark the 50th anniversary of the guitarist and composer’s Hot Rats — released on this date in 1969 — with a six-disc reissue that offers a deep dive into the sessions that yielded the jazz-rock masterpiece. The Hot Rats Sessions, due out December 20th via UMe …
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