Arcade Fire coveredthe Cranberries‘ “Linger” during their Friday concert in Dublin, Ireland, the home country of the Cranberries and their late singer Dolores O’Riordan. Win Butler and company performed the chorus of the beloved Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can’t We? single before segueing back into Arcade Fire‘s …
Read More »Trisha Yearwood to Host 'Trisha's Take Five' on SiriusXM's Garth Channel
Trisha Yearwood, the Grammy-winning hitmaker, cooking show host, author and wife of Country Music Hall of Famer Garth Brooks, adds radio host to her resume with today’s launch of a new weekly SiriusXM show, “Trisha’s Take Five.” Airing exclusively on the Garth Channel, SiriusXM’s satellite and streaming channel devoted to …
Read More »Hear Joan Shelley, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Sing Dolly Parton's 'The Bridge'
Joan Shelley can say a great deal in very few words. On her new EP Rivers and Vessels, the Kentucky folk singer turns those gifts to interpreting the works of such artists as Nick Drake, JJ Cale, and Dolly Parton, including a haunting cover of Parton’s “The Bridge” that features …
Read More »Watch James Bay Take Spaceship Ride in 'Pink Lemonade' Video
British singer-songwriter James Bay pilots his own DIY spaceship in the nostalgic “Pink Lemonade” video.Tapping into childhood frustration, Bay sneaks into his parents’ garage to flee Earth via a crudely coordinated space launch. “I was reminded of a time when I was a about four years old and I told …
Read More »Watch Jack White's Surreal, Color-Coded 'Over and Over and Over' Video
Jack White‘s apartment transforms into a vibrant fever dream in the reality-bending “Over and Over and Over” video. The songwriter appears in several scenarios, playing electric guitar as his living room shifts to blue and white. Wrestlers, masked children, women wearing colorful garments and men in military fatigues appear in …
Read More »Brandi Carlile, Sturgill Simpson Join 2018 Newport Folk Festival Lineup
Brandi Carlile is headed back to Newport Folk Festival in 2018, becoming the latest artist to be added to a lineup that already includes Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, and Courtney Barnett. Carlile, who was added to the Rhode Island festival’s rolling announcements today, will be making …
Read More »Blink-182 to Launch Las Vegas Residency
Blink-182 are headed to Las Vegas. The pop-punk trio have inked a deal with the Palms Casino Resort for a 16-date residency dubbed “Kings of the Weekend” that will begin May 26th and run on select weekends through November 17th. “When the Palms asked us to do a residency here …
Read More »See Doug Sahm, Sir Douglas Quintet Perform 'Mendocino' Live From Austin
There are few figures in country music as influential and perhaps as underappreciated in modern culture as Doug Sahm, who changed the climate of the genre when he fused psychedelic San Francisco rock and gritty soul into his breed of Texas music with his band, Sir Douglas Quintet. Now, as …
Read More »Jack Antonoff Talks Co-Writing Taylor Swift's 'New Year's Day'
Bleachers‘ Jack Antonoff appeared on TheTonight Show Thursday speaking about writingTaylor Swift’s “New Year’s Day”and the uncertainty of the songwriting process. “We wrote that song in a second, because we didn’t plan to write it. If you plan to write like a ballad or something like that, you always get …
Read More »Hear James Bay's New Rock Song 'Pink Lemonade' Ahead of 'SNL' Debut
Grammy nominated singer-songwriter James Bay is gearing up for hisSaturday Night Live debut with a second new song from his forthcoming album,Electric Light. The uptempo, rock-oriented “Pink Lemonade” follows previously released single “Wild Love.”Electric Light comes out May 18th. While “Wild Love” was more contemplative, “Pink Lemonade” has a brisk, …
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