Music

Jakob Dylan had never conducted an interview before Echo in the Canyon, the new documentary he hosts on the Sixties Laurel Canyon music scene, which hits theaters nationwide this week. But Dylan — who breaks down the film and his musical career on the new episode of our podcast, Rolling …

About a year and a half ago, the producers of Celebrity Big Brother asked Mark McGrath to stage a fake recording session so they could shoot a quick sizzle reel of him before the reality show began filming. But when Sugar Ray guitarist Rodney Sheppard arrived at the studio, he …

By mid-1984, Texas honky-tonk heartthrob George Strait was on a hot streak at country radio. Since his first Number One hit, “Fool Hearted Memory,” in 1982, he’d had four more chart-toppers, all of them in a row. Thirty-five years ago today, on June 25th, 1984, he was at Nashville’s Sound …

Texas natives Rodney Crowell and Randy Rogers go full Lone Star on the new collaboration “Flatland Hillbillies,” which will appear on Crowell’s upcoming album Texas. The video for the tune, which Crowell wrote with author Mary Karr, is out now. Over a muscular, country-rock groove, Crowell describes a kind of …

Mumford & Sons staged a late-night performance of “Slip Away” from their hometown London’s Central Hall Westminster as part of The Late Late Show With James Corden‘s U.K. residency Thursday. On an atypical-for-late-night dimly lit stage, the British folk act delivered a thrilling rendition of “Slip Away,” a non-single off …

On July 7th, 2008, Ringo Starr invited fans to join him on the streets of Chicago to celebrate his birthday with a simple direction: Say, or think, the words “peace and love” when the clock hit noon. He’s been doing it ever since, and the gathering has spread to more …

Willie Nelson performed his cover of Guy Clark’s bittersweet love song “My Favorite Picture of You” on The Tonight Show Tuesday. Nelson’s rendition will appear on his upcoming album, Ride Me Back Home, which arrives this Friday, June 21st. “My Favorite Picture of You” was the title-track of Clark’s final …

The previously announced hologram trek featuring Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly detailed its North American itinerary. The “Rock ‘N’ Roll Dream Tour” kicks off September 19th in San Francisco and wraps November 20th in Toronto. Citi cardmembers can access a Private Pass pre-sale that runs from June 19th at 10 …

Bruce Springsteen’s new album Western Stars is here and with it, a new video for the title track. Springsteen and the backing musicians from the album play the song in a bar, crosscut with scenes of Bruce driving a vintage Chevrolet El Camino though the West, roaming the desert and …

The most demonstrative note that Andrew Cyrille played on Tuesday night — a resounding thwack on the snare — was also the last. The drummer, a key presence across the full spectrum of jazz since the early 1960s, was wrapping up more than four hours of largely improvised exploration on …