Music

Tame Impala released their new album, Deadbeat, today, and to celebrate the arrival, Kevin Parker and company visited NPR’s Tiny Desk to deliver the band’s first-ever all-acoustic performance. Armed with six acoustic guitars — one of which was used as the percussion — Tame Impala played four songs over 20 …

Tributes celebrating the wild, remarkable talent and inimitable laugh of Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley were shared by his fellow musicians following the Spaceman’s death today at age 74. Frehley co-founded the band in 1973 alongside bassistGene Simmons, guitarist Paul Stanley, and drummer Peter Criss, playing with Kiss during their Seventies …

Neil Young will celebrate the 50th anniversary of his classic 1975 album Tonight’s the Night with a reissue package featuring several previously unreleased recordings from the original album sessions. Young and his backing band — which included, at the time, guitarist Nils Lofgren, pedal steel player Ben Keith, bassist Billy …

“Rocky Horror is not just a movie. It’s a fucking gateway drug,” NOFX frontman/punk impresario Fat Mike told the sold-out crowd at Los Angeles’ Grammy Museum on Oct. 15. “It makes people feel like not only can they be different, but it’s better to be different. I would listen to …

The last couple decades have been lousy with bearded musical visionaries. Yet despite all that heavy traffic, Tame Impala‘s Kevin Parker has easily carved own his own unique lane. He’s the Australian sonic explorer with the stretchy falsetto and plush, funky space-rock style whose studio scientist skills have landed him …

The rock world is in a state of deep mourning for Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley, who died Thursday following a fall at his home. “We are devastated by the passing of Ace Frehley,” Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley said in a joint statement. “He was an essential and irreplaceable rock …

A vintage t-shirt Taylor Swift wore in her Life of a Showgirl film has snowballed into Swifties raising more than $2 million for the Monterey Bay Aquarium, its Sea Otter Program, and other conservation efforts. To go back to the beginning: At one point in The Official Release Party of …

“In the music business, people think that if you’re different, it’s a marketing problem,” says Don Was, who’s in the sixth decade of a one-of-a-kind career: producer for superstars, bass player, Blue Note Records president, and co-founder of the eclectic band Was (Not Was). “Instead of being a problem, it’s …

While YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s first major headlining ‘Make America Slime Again‘ tour thrilled a packed out crowd in Atlanta on Oct. 16, fans were treated to a surprise performance of “Whim Whamiee” by rising rappers Pluto and YKNiece, right in their hometown. The unexpected performance was doubly surprising as …

In an excerpt from Kevin Federline‘s upcoming tell-all memoir, You Thought You Knew, the dancer and ex-husband of Britney Spears issued a warning regarding the pop star and their sons, Sean Preston, 20, and Jayden James, 19. Along with an alarming claim that Spears would watch their children sleep with …