13+ hour, 34+ min ago   (547+ words) The Beta Band are together again after more than 20 years, making this a particularly good time to revisit the gloriously strange story of how they got here. Frontman and founding member Steve Mason tells that story in ‘Failure Is Always…...

14+ hour, 37+ min ago   (449+ words) Midland sound right at home with a song about dark whiskey, loose lips and questionable Saturday-night decisions. The Grammy-nominated country trio put their own stamp on “Drinkin’ Dark Whiskey” earlier this year, taking a well-travelled honky tonk song and leaning…...

15+ hour, 5+ min ago   (654+ words) Frank Zappa returned to Hollywood’s TTG Studios in October 1966 with The Mothers of Invention, a television crew, dancers, underground personalities and enough unpredictability to make the room feel closer to a happening than a conventional recording session. Six decades later,…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (468+ words) Nobody plans their breakup playlist in advance, and yet somehow everyone ends up building one anyway, usually around 2 AM, usually while eating something they wouldn’t normally admit to. Here are 15 songs that have earned their place in that particular ritual,…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (612+ words) That Eric Alper Grammy-winning fiddler Jim VanCleve will return to the North Carolina mountains that shaped his music when he is inducted into the National Fiddler Hall of Fame on October 4. The ceremony will take place during a special Appalachian…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (285+ words) Lizzo’s famous flute has officially made the jump from concert stages and Instagram feeds to the pages of a children’s book. ‘Lil Lizzo Meets Sasha B. Flootin’’, the Grammy-winning musician’s first picture book, is out now through Simon & Schuster Books…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (263+ words) Video: The Doors Tear Through “Wild Child” And “Touch Me” On 1968 Television That Eric Alper The Doors bring the electricity of late-1960s Los Angeles rock to television in remarkable footage of the band performing “Wild Child” and “Touch Me” on…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (282+ words) The Kinks Celebrate 60 Years Of “Sunny Afternoon” With New Animated Video That Eric Alper The Kinks have given “Sunny Afternoon” a new animated life 60 years after the song first arrived in 1966. Written by Ray Davies, the classic became one of…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (700+ words) Elvis Costello Unearths 1976 Song For Massive ‘My Aim Is True’ Box Set That Eric Alper Elvis Costello has opened another door into the making of his debut album with “I Turn Around,” a previously unreleased solo recording from early 1976 that…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (356+ words) 70000Tons of Metal has revealed the first 30 bands for its 2027 voyage, with Arch Enemy, Exodus, Hammerfall, Moonspell, Primal Fear, Uli Jon Roth and Wolfheart among the acts heading into the Caribbean for four days of heavy metal at sea. The festival…...