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Mike Campbell began his acceptance speech at the 25th Annual Americana Honors & Awards ceremony at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium Wednesday night with a line that landed less like a joke than a promise. “Lifetime achievement? I’m not done yet,” he said. Minutes earlier, the Tom Petty guitarist and career-long second-in-command led his Heartbreakers bandmates and fellow honorees — keyboardist Benmont Tench, bassist Ron Blair, Swiss Army-knife sideman Scott Thurston, and drummers Stan Lynch and Steve Ferrone — through a three-song opening set that saw contemporary living legend Chris Stapleton pinch-hitting for Petty. The namesake leader of the rock band died in…
Michael P. Desronvil, the sole juror whose holdout in the case against Lindsay Clancy who was on trial for killing her three young children led to a mistrial on Sept. 4, stood by his vote to convict Clancy, saying he did not hold doubts on her being guilty. In a statement on Friday, Dersonvil said that during deliberations other jurors cut off his attempts to discuss theories about the case, as The New York Times reports. One of the jurors, Paula Devlin, described Dersonvil as “very arrogant” in an interview earlier in the month with NBC10 and that while “he…
Tune-Yards is embarking on a U.S. tour titled The Ones That Love You. Starting November 5 in Chicago, the Oakland band will make stops in Cleveland, Boston, Cincinnati, and more. The pop duo Rituals of Mine will open each date. Scroll down for the full schedule.This spring, Tune-Yards wrote and released the score for Boots Riley’s offbeat comedy-crime film I Love Boosters, the follow-up to their composition work for Riley’s debut feature, 2018’s Sorry to Bother You. Tune-Yards put out their sixth studio album, Better Dreaming, in 2025.Correction: A previous version of this story mistakenly noted this tour was only…
Interpol and Queens Of The Stone Age have announced a huge joint show in Mexico City. Find all the details below. The two bands will perform at the Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes stadium on March 6, 2027. “MEXICO 🇲🇽 We can’t wait to see you with @interpol,” wrote QOTSA on social media. Interpol’s upcoming gig with Josh Homme and co. forms part of a newly confirmed three-show stint in Mexico. They’ll also take to the stage at Arena Guadalajara on March 2, and Arena Monterrey on March 9. The Black Angels will support on all dates. Tickets go on…
A new Miley Cyrus album is always an event. Ten albums into an ever-changing career in pop, she’s shown she can surprise us, delight us, make a huge hit, or make something weird — and you never quite know which Miley you’re going to get. That’s part of the fun. She’s said she worked quickly when she was recording her latest album, Bass Persuades, which arrives slightly less than 18 months after 2025’s Something Beautiful. So what’s it like? Here are our first reactions after taking a spin through these 10 adventurous tracks. “Bass Persuades” Was a True First-Single Fakeout …
Over the past few years, Alex Van Halen has worked hard to avoid speaking about Sammy Hagar, not even mentioning him by name a single time in his 240-page memoir Brothers: An Intimate Account of Brotherhood and Rock Music. But earlier this month, in an interview with the Brazilian magazine Roadie Crew, he fired back when asked about Hagar’s 2011 book Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock. “I don’t know what he wrote, and I don’t want to know,” said Van Halen. “In my opinion, Sammy Hagar is a complete idiot.” Unsurprisingly, Hagar had much to say about that characterization…
You don’t need to have logged in countless hours playing Resident Evil — or its legion of sequels, spin-offs, first-person or third-person iterations — to immediately sense that Zach Cregger‘s addition to the video-game-turned-multimedia-franchise’s legacy is different. Yes, the Weapons director’s movie jettisons a metastasizing mythology that’s infected both the popular PlayStation title and those woeful big-screen adaptations, and which mutated what was once a industry-changing survivalist horror shooter into just another intellectual property plagued by diminishing returns. Reboots gonna reboot, although simply restarting things from scratch and/or throwing canon out the window is no guarantee of an upgrade. The…
The National’s Matt Berninger has released a new EP, Type It Up, which includes covers of New Order’s “Blue Monday” and Velvet Underground’s “Who Loves the Sun,” the latter featuring Rosanne Cash. The follow-up to last year’s Get Sunk also includes Berninger’s recent single “Martini Me Fatso,” as well as a new one, “Ask for Water,” which you can hear below via a video from Chris Sgroi.“These songs came out of the momentum and energy of the Get Sunk tour,” Berninger shares. “I was changing lyrics and forms night after night, and we were getting real time feedback from audiences…
Duncan Sheik, the Tony-winning composer of Broadway’s Spring Awakening and singer behind the 1996 hit “Barely Breathing,” has died in Manhattan, reports the New York Times. He was 56. According to Sheik’s mother, the cause of death was cardiac arrest. Earlier this week, the musician was reported to be in critical but stable condition following an unspecified health issue.Duncan Scott Sheik was born on Nov. 18, 1969, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. His first single, the pop-rock track “Barely Breathing,” became a major hit for the young singer-songwriter, peaking at No. 16 on the Hot 100 and remaining on the…
Rabbit Holed is Kieran Press-Reynolds’ column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This edition is all about “GG EZ,” an AI song that became a human song that became the music meme of the moment. Plus, a report from New York Fashion Week a.k.a B0YG1RL Fest.
