Electropop singer-songwriter Banks announced that her forthcoming album, III, is due out July 12th. She dropped its tortured-love song “Look What You’re Doing to Me,” featuring Francis and the Lights. “The song is about love,” the singer said. “About falling in love, being in love and how you feel when you’re high …
Read More »Dylan LeBlanc Stares Down Sobriety, Organized Religion on New Album 'Renegade'
“It’s really hard to get arrested in New Orleans,” says Dylan LeBlanc, rapping a heavy silver ring he’s wearing on the table in front of him for emphasis. Somehow, though, the singer-songwriter managed that feat in 2014. “I got into some sort of scuffle in the street and I was …
Read More »Guns N' Roses, Post Malone, Beck Lead Voodoo Fest Lineup
Guns N’ Roses, Post Malone and Beck will headline the 2019 Voodoo Music and Arts Experience, which takes place October 25th through 27th in New Orleans, Louisiana. Bassnectar, Brandi Carlile, the National, Rezz, Zhu, Interpol, Bring Me the Horizon, Young the Giant and Japanese Breakfast are among the more than …
Read More »Flashback: Roky Erickson Serenades Demons and Zombies on 'The Evil One'
In an early-Eighties documentary on Roky Erickson, an interviewer asked the late singer-guitarist about his religious background. “Well, I’ve gone through three changes,” Erickson responds. “I thought I was a Christian, then I was with the devil … and then the third one where I know who I am; I …
Read More »Lee Perry's 'Rainford' is a Dub Icon's Victory Lap
“People: repent ” intones Lee “Scratch” Perry to begin what might be his gazillionth LP, Rainford— and his signature spacey West Indian storefront-preacher steez feels perfectly-suited to a cultural moment defined both by widespread institutional criminality and high-grade legal weed. As a founding father of dub reggae and arguably its …
Read More »Leon Redbone, Cult Singer Who Helped Revive Ragtime, Dead at 69
Related: 1974 Rolling Stone Profile of Leon Redbone Leon Redbone, the singer who built a career out of performing ragtime, vaudeville and American standards with a sly wink and an unmistakable, nasally voice, died Thursday. He was 69. A statement on Redbone’s website confirmed his death, though it did so …
Read More »Kacey Musgraves, Miranda Lambert to Receive Awards at 2019 ACM Honors
Country stars Brooks & Dunn, Martina McBride, Kacey Musgraves and Miranda Lambert are among the recipients for the Academy of Country Music’s 13th Annual ACM Honors, which will be presented Wednesday, August 21st, at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Recognizing the special honorees and off-camera category winners from the 54th Academy of …
Read More »See Kanye West Remember His Mother in Letterman Interview Preview
Kanye West opened up about his late mother Donda West in a preview of the rapper’s appearance on David Letterman‘s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. West’s mother died in 2007 from complications after cosmetic surgery and never got to meet her four grandchildren, North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm. “This …
Read More »Geto Boys Reunion Tour Canceled After Bushwick Bill Backs Out
Rap trio the Geto Boys have canceled their upcoming reunion tour after Bushwick Bill, who recently revealed he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, pulled out of the trek. The four-date tour was scheduled to begin tonight in Pontiac, Michigan. However, TMZ reports that Bushwick Bill exited the trek at the …
Read More »Cate Le Bon Turns Solitude Into Revelatory Art-Pop on 'Reward'
In April 2017, Cate Le Bon moved to the Lake District of Cumbria, England, alone. She spent a year there, learning how to build furniture from scratch while constructing introspective songs on an old piano. Her fifth studio album, Reward, is the result of this isolation—ten sonically diverse tracks that …
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