Anthony Hamilton finds out he was being two-timed in “You Made a Fool of Me,” a pour-salt-in-the-wound ballad he released on Friday. “You Made a Fool of Me” is set in 6/8 time — a tempo that, for R&B singers, tends to be the setting for ecstasy (try Otis Redding‘s …
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Lawrence Rothman whips up a seething garage-rock song in “Sunny Place for Shady People” with help from the Philadelphia blues musician Son Little. Inspired by the nightmare miasma of Donald Trump’s leadership — and particularly of being a gender-fluid person through that stretch of time — “Sunny Place for Shady …
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Sharon Van Etten has officially released her cover of Daniel Johnston’s “Some Things Last a Long Time.” As Stereogum notes, Van Etten recorded the cover, plus an original song, for the 2020 documentary, Feels Good Man, about the creator of Pepe the Frog. (It’s unclear if this had any bearing …
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Glenn Danzig is getting anxious for a return to “normal.” A year ago, the heavy-metal singer turned horror filmmaker was editing his new feature, a blood-soaked “vampire spaghetti Western” called Death Rider in the House of Vampires, when the Covid-19 pandemic forced the world into lockdown. Now that the film …
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Jessie Ware has announced an expanded edition of her acclaimed 2020 album What’s Your Pleasure? and with it a new summer-ready single titled “Please.” “Ihad such an amazing response to the What’s Your Pleasure? record that I didn’t want the lights to go up and the party to be over …
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Wolfgang Van Halen’s solo project Mammoth WVH has released a new song, “Feel,” from the band’s upcoming self-titled debut, out June 11th via EX1 Records/ Explorer1 Music Group. “Feel” is a breakneck rocker filled with jagged riffs, rumbling bass, and pounding drums, while Van Halen’s vocals take the song into …
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Billie Joe Armstrong recalls the first time he met Green Day bassist Mike Dirnt in an excerpt from his new Audible Original, Billie Joe Armstrong: Welcome to My Panic, out Thursday, April 22nd. Armstrong and Dirnt met in the fifth grade, and Armstrong says music — Ozzy Osbourne in particular …
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Paul McCartney, Kate Bush, Noel Gallagher, and other British and U.K.-based musicians have signed an open letter to England’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson calling on him to embrace reforms that would improve streaming revenues for artists, performers, and songwriters. The letter is backed by the Musicians’ Union and the Ivors …
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Bob Weir and the Flying Other Brothers’ Bert Keely joined together for a cover of John Lennon’s “Imagine.” The duo recorded the Lennon classic following the death of Richard Newton, their friend and Dean of UC Berkeley’s School of Electrical Engineering. The delicate rendition features Weir on vocals and guitar …
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Evanescence have released a new video for their recent single, “Better Without You,” which appears on the rock outfit’s new album, The Bitter Truth. Directed by Eric D. Howell, the “Better Without You” clip is an epic spectacle befitting the mighty track. Interspersed with footage of Evanescence performing the cut, …
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