Farm Aid is returning to Hartford, Connecticut’s Xfinity Theatre on September 25th with a lineup that includes board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, and Margo Price alongside Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, Bettye LaVette, Jamey Johnson, Lukas Nelson & Promise of …
Read More »Titus Andronicus Detail Belated 10th-Anniversary Celebration of 'The Monitor'
Rock outfit Titus Andronicus will belatedly celebrate the 10th anniversary of their acclaimed 2010 album The Monitorwith a reissue and North American tour this fall. A 10th-anniversary edition of The Monitor will be released October 22nd via XL Records, remastered for vinyl by Matthew Barnhart at Chicago Mastering Service. This …
Read More »Low Announce New Album 'Hey What,' Share First Single 'Days Like These'
Low have announced their latest albumHey What, to be released September 10th via Sub Pop, and shared the first single from the LP, “Days Like These.” The song arrived on Tuesday with a music video directed by the band’s longtime friend Karlos Rene Ayala. HeyWhat, Low’s thirteenth album and their …
Read More »Foo Fighters to Play First Show at Madison Square Garden in Over a Year
The Foo Fighters will reopen Madison Square Garden in New York City on June 20th when they play the first arena show there in over a year. The concert will be the first full-capacity MSG show of the year and the first since March 2020 (the venue has been open …
Read More »'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier' Finale: A Miscarriage of Justice
A review of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier finale, “One World, One People,” coming up just as soon as I save people a lot of redacting and a lot of shredding… For its first five episodes, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier kept hovering around mediocrity. Sometimes, like Sam’s …
Read More »Paloma Mami's Dreams Are Only Getting Bigger
Paloma Rocío Castillo Astorga was just 18 when she wrote her first song. She self-released it as a single — “Not Steady,” a gauzy, Spanglish R&B reproach to an overzealous suitor — with a music video that she filmed in the parking lot of her tía’s apartment complex. Within a …
Read More »Girl in Red's Supercharged Indie Rock Honesty
Marie Ulven, a.k.a. Girl in Red, stops herself mid-apology — the kind you utter when you think you’re talking too fast or you’re unsure whether the listener gets your drift. “I’m not gonna say sorry,” the 22-year-old musician says firmly, breaking off from a discussion of her new album, If …
Read More »Chloe x Halle on What They've Learned from Beyoncé: 'You Don't Have To Dim Your Light'
For this year’s annualWomen Shaping the Future issue, we asked 12 of today’s top musical acts to talk about the women who have inspired them most in their lives and careers. Here, Chloe x Halle talk about their mentor, Beyoncé — who runs their label, Parkwood Entertainment — and share …
Read More »Watch Morrissey Perform Smiths Obscurity 'Half a Person' for First Time in 20 Years
Morrissey played his first concert of 2020 on March 6th at the First Direct Arena in Leeds, England, where he treated fans to a reworked setlist. It featured not only the first performance of the Smiths classic “The Boy With the Thorn in His Side” since 2013 but also the …
Read More »My Chemical Romance Plot First North American Tour in Nine Years
My Chemical Romance will tour North America for the first time in nine years this fall. The reunion run launches September 9th at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit and continues through the next month, wrapping October 11th at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. My Chemical Romance announced the tour …
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