Music

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band were in Australia on the final leg of their River tour in early 2017 when guitarist Nils Lofgren found himself messing around with a new bluesy riff on his Jazzmaster guitar during a pre-show soundcheck. “I knew I wanted to do something with …

It’s been a long six years since we last heard new music from the Jonas Brothers, and toward the end of their run, it seemed like they had already lost the muse that made them one of the catchiest, funniest and most-charming acts to come out of their class of …

Drake will perform five more shows in 2019 at the XS Nightclub as part of a multifaceted new partnership with Wynn Las Vegas, Rolling Stone has confirmed. “In the fourth quarter of last year, we pursued a relationship with Drake and his management team to do something different in Las …

Pink Floyd will reissue the mono mix of their second album A Saucerful of Secrets as a vinyl release for Record Store Day, April 13th. Unlike the Beatles or Rolling Stones, the band transitioned to stereo fairly quickly, making this one of the rare albums in their catalog that originally …

Throughout author Greg Prato’s new oral history of the band King’s X, one theme comes up again and again. Pearl Jam‘s Jeff Ament, a longtime friend and fan — and onetime tourmate — of the long-running, impossible-to-classify trio sums up the idea succinctly: “It’s so incredibly unfair that they weren’t …

After nearly two years of renovations, New York’s Webster Hall will reopen in the spring. They have yet to announce the first show, but Patti Smith is booked for May 1st and otheracts slated to play include MGMT, Sharon Van Etten, Chris Robinson Brotherhood and Built to Spill. According to …

Two days ago, Billie Eilish celebrated her 17th birthday at a roller rink here in L.A., and yesterday she got right back to work, which meant hunkering down at “a random-ass hotel” to shoot a video for her new single, “Bury a Friend.” “It smelled like pee and horses,” she …

Chicago alt-country label Bloodshot Records has issued a statement in response to allegations made this weekend by Bloodshot artist Lydia Loveless. In her posts, Loveless claimed shewas sexually harassed by Mark Panick, the domestic partner of the label’s co-president Nan Warshaw. Panick is not an employee of the label. Loveless, …

In many ways, Spotify enjoyed a spectacular end to 2018. The company finished the year with its first ever quarterly operating profit – €94m ($107 million) — something that challenged many of the long-term naysayers about its business model. In addition, amid its year-end financial-results announcement, Spotify confirmed that it …

In 1990, Tim O’Brien joined country star and CMA Female Vocalist award-winner Kathy Mattea on the romantic “Battle Hymn of Love,” which set vows of eternal commitment to a gentle acoustic bluegrass background. Now, nearly three decades later, O’Brien offers another sweet Valentine in “Amazing Love,” a song he penned …