Music

Motown will mark the 50th anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s 1973 classic Let’s Get It On with a deluxe digital edition packed with over a dozen unreleased recordings. Out August 25th — just a few days shy 50 years from the original LP’s August 28, 1973 release — the new digital …

In “Hearts Aglow,” the quasi–title track off Weyes Blood‘s 2022 album, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow, Natalie Mering sings, “I’ve been waiting for my life to begin/For someone to light up my heart again.” In the video for the song, shot partially in granulated VHS quality, she finds that …

Shareholders in Live Nation Entertainment are being invited to join a class action lawsuit filed earlier this month accusing the ticketing company of failing to disclose anticompetitive company operations. New York-based firm Bernstein Liebhard’s lawsuit — filed on August 4 in California Federal Court — alleges that Live Nation “failed …

“The one thing I wanted to avoid was the sophomore slump,” says Wolfgang Van Halen — and if anything, his just-released second album as Mammoth WVH, Mammoth II, is a major step up from his impressive 2021 debut. The choruses and riffs are both big enough to match his band …

Fever Ray’s Karin Dreijer ventures into a snowy expanse in the new music video for “North,” a track off their recent album, Radical Romantics, co-produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Directed by longtime collaborator Martin Falck, the “North” video finds Fever Ray smack in the middle of the Swedish …

Robbie Robertson, the Band‘s guitarist and primary songwriter who penned “The Weight,” “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” “Up on Cripple Creek,” and many other beloved classics, died Wednesday at age 80. Robertson’s management company confirmed the musician’s death. “Robbie was surrounded by his family at the time of …

Lucinda Williams has shared a music video for her recent single, “Rock N Roll Heart.” The black and white clip marks the first time in over three decades that Williams has starred in one of her videos, following 1988’s “Passionate Kisses.” Directed by Neilson Hubbard and Joshua Britt, the video …

The life of Robbie Robertson — who died Wednesday morning after a long illness — can neatly be divided into everything that happened before The Last Waltz and everything that happened afterward. The 1976 all-star concert at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom marked the end of his career with the Band, …

In his decades as an A&R representative for Tommy Boy, Elektra Records, and elsewhere, Dante Ross has worked closely with some of hip-hop’s greatest artists, including De La Soul, Busta Rhymes, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, Brand Nubian, and many more. In this excerpt from his 2023 memoir, Son of …

Martin Scorsese first met Robbie Robertson in the mid-Seventies when the Band contacted the director to film their final concert, which would become the moving celebration known as The Last Waltz. They remained close, working together on project after project, until Robertson’s death on Wednesday at age 80. In a …