Late in 2017, Cole Swindell embarked on his first-ever headlining tour, dubbed the Reason to Drink tour, following years of supporting superstars Luke Bryan and Kenny Chesney, among others. As he prepares to release his third album later this summer, Swindell will venture out on another headlining trek to perform …
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Foo Fighters‘ Chris Shiflett is selling 20 guitars from his personal collection, including ones he used during his tenure with the rock band. “I have an excess of guitars that I’ve gotten over the years —I have more than I could even really play and more than I do play. …
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The 2011 split of Sonic Youth’s two main songwriters Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon divided the band’s impulses into two divergent solo careers: Moore into chiming, jammy, stoned-and-satiated indie rock; Gordon into a rubbed-raw, rather-ripping noise duo with experimental guitarist Bill Nace. For fans of SY’s transgressive Eighties downtown bluster, …
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The principal cast from Downton Abbey will reprise their roles for an upcoming movie via Focus Features and Carnival Films. Series creator Julian Fellowes wrote the film’s screenplay and will produce with Gareth Neame and Liz Trubridge; Brian Percival (The Book Thief, About a Girl), who helmed the series’ pilot …
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A widower seeks a fresh start in the colorful yet poignant video for Beck‘s remix of U2‘s “Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way.” For the animated clip, U2 once again tapped the Israeli graffiti collective, Broken Fingaz Crew, who previously helmed their videos for “American Soul” and “Get …
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Keith Urban caught flack from country purists for borrowing and manipulating the riff to Merle Haggard’s “Mama Tried” for his latest hit “Coming Home.” But that polarizing intro is nowhere to be found here, as Urban strips down the song to its bare bones for an acoustic performance. It’s a …
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While still in his teens, Texas native Roy Orbison and his band, the aptly named Teen Kings, were the stars of their own weekly series on KOSA-TV in Odessa. They would also travel to nearby Clovis, New Mexico, to record in the studio run by Norman Petty, who had gained …
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EDITORS’ PICK: Meek Mill, Legends of the Summer Meek Mill’s legal battles and advocacy for criminal justice reform have made him a folk hero. This four-track EP seems designed to sustain heightened public interest in him – at least until he can record a proper follow-up to last year’s Wins …
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On June 28th, five staffers of Annapolis, Maryland’s Capital Gazettenewspaper were killed by an assailant wielding a legally purchased 12-gauge shotgun. Less than a week later, the paper’s surviving staff marched in the city’s Fourth of July parade. Their participation was announced in an article published Wednesday morning. “Normally, we …
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No rapper has built their identity on an inability to settle down quite like Drake. For nearly a decade, he’s been the patron saint of the perpetually single whose romantic modes veer between heartbreak and apathy. So what happens when the peak millennial bachelor is suddenly catapulted into fatherhood? On …
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