Music

What makes a summer jam? Is it the sunniest chorus, the hottest beat, the most weeks on the charts? Do the lyrics have to be about beaches and barbecues, or is it a question of vibe? What if it’s a song on your summer playlist and no one else’s? We …

Guns N’ Roses previewed the massive reissue of their debut LPAppetite for Destructionwith Axl Rose‘s 10-minute, vocals-and-piano demo of “November Rain.” The band’s epic single would later appeared on their third albumUse Your Illusion I. The demo, over a minute longer than the 1991 version, finds Rose sketching out the …

What makes a summer jam? Is it the sunniest chorus, the hottest beat, the most weeks on the charts? Do the lyrics have to be about beaches and barbecues, or is it a question of vibe? What if it’s a song on your summer playlist and no one else’s? We …

Harry Styles performed a cover of Shania Twain‘s “You’re Still the One” alongside Kacey Musgraves during the British singer’s Friday concert at New York’s Madison Square Garden. “We’re gonna sing one of my personal favorites,” Styles said before launching into the 1997 hit single with Musgraves, who is serving as …

Summertime in Texas isn’t complete for country music fans without a tour from resident buddy duo Wade Bowen and Randy Rogers. A fixture of the Red Dirt circuit for a decade, the pair is bringing back its Hold My Beer and Watch This Tour for an 11th year with a …

In October 1995, singer-songwriter David Lee Murphy hit Number One with “Dust on the Bottle,” a tune which Murphy wrote in a 15-minute flurry of inspiration for his debut LP. On the other end of the spectrum, as far as time is concerned, it would be another 23 years before …

There is a veritable army of musical masterminds credited on the new Chromeoalbum,Head Over Heels: Pino Palladino, the bassist who anchors D’Angelo’s albums; Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, the writer/producer behind Brandy and Monica’s “The Boy Is Mine” and Destiny’s Child’s “Say My Name;” Tawatha Agee, who has backing vocal credits on …

Spiritualized have announced their new album And Nothing Hurt, the Jason Pierce-led space rock outfit’s first album in six years. The guitarist dubbed “J Spaceman” trumpeted the upcoming arrival of his first Spiritualized LP since 2012’s Sweet Heart Sweet Light by unveiling the video for “I’m Your Man,” featuring Pierce …

It’s remarkable that – after nearly 25 years in the music industry – this EP is Black Thought‘s first solo project. (He planned the solo debut Masterpiece Theater in 2000, but it was eventually absorbed into The Roots’ 2002 Phrenology.) Musically, 9th Wonder and the Soul Council’s production is spare …

The late Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar performed slow, unraveling ragas on the rudra veena, a classical, low-register, double-gourd instrument that was eventually supplanted in popularity by the bass sitar. Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley – an enthusiast of both raw bootlegs and drones of all shapes – has unearthed two Eighties …