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1. Arlo Parks Dances To A New Beat On Third LP

   Two-time Grammy nominee Arlo Parks finds sanctuary on the dance floor on her third album...

2. Foo Fighters, Lorde, LCD Bound For BottleRock

   Foo Fighters, Lorde and LCD Soundsystem will share headlining duties with...

3. Patti Smith: Still Blazing After 50 Years of ‘Horses’

   In the first season of her recording career, from 1974 to 1980, Patti Smith was a raw nerve, blazing behind the microphone on a mission to reinvent rock and roll as a setting for a new kind of feral, literary revolt. She emerged from the first generation of punk rock at CBGB in New York […]

4. The Faint’s Todd Fink on ‘Agenda Suicide’ and the Art of Not Playing It Safe

   Omaha native Todd Fink was on his way to becoming a professional skateboarder. Much like other teenaged boys who grew up in the 1990s, skating had become a way of life, an obsession, and Fink kept excelling at it—much to his high school guidance counselor’s chagrin.  “That’s not a plan,” he remembers hearing. But skaters […]

5. Eddie Vedder Plots Debut Japanese Solo Tour

   While Pearl Jam plots its next move following the summer departure of longtime drummer Matt Cameron, frontman Eddie Vedder...

6. Band Of Horses Find ‘Time’ To Revisit Beloved Debut LP

   The first song to emerge from the set is a studio version of the early live favorite...

7. A Symphony of Sound

   Roxanne Shanté is listening to her Juice Crew partner Masta Ace talk about RZA’s upcoming EP, Juice Crew, when she has an a-ha moment. Unbeknownst to her, RZA had started the project years ago to accompany the 2017 release of the Shanté biopic Roxanne Roxanne.  Suddenly it all clicked.  Song titles like “Single Mothers,” “Lolita,” […]

8. Dry Cleaning Dance Themselves Dirty

   Dry Cleaning singer Florence Shaw likes to keep some distance between her vocals and the rest of the band. Shaw’s curious confidences, spoken-word confessions, and bemused monologues appear to have only a passing relationship to the propulsive rhythms and brittle riffs that frame them. That dissonance can be striking at first, but it grows restrictive–stark […]

9. Grateful Dead Co-Founder Bob Weir Dies At 78

   Bob Weir, who joined the Grateful Dead on guitar and vocals at the age of 16 and then spent the next 60 years...

10. Trey Anastasio On Bob Weir: ‘Your Spirit Lives On Forever’

    Phish leader Trey Anastasio is among the many musicians saluting the life of Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir, who died Saturday...