Norah Jones has unearthed a 22-year-old recording of “Hallelujah, I Love Him So,” her take on Ray Charles‘ classic 1959 single “Hallelujah, I Love Her So.” The recording is one of 22 previously unreleased tracks set to appear on the 20th anniversary reissue of the singer’s Grammy-winning debut Come Away …
Read More »Metallica's Kirk Hammett Soundtracks a Six-String Shootout on New Song 'High Plains Drifter'
Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett does some vintage guitar slinging on his new solo song, “High Plains Drifter.” Borrowing its title from the 1973 Clint Eastwood-starring Western of the same name, “High Plains Drifter” begins with the lonesome pluck of a guitar then expands with horns, strings, piano, and marching drums. …
Read More »Why it's Harder Than Ever to Be a Young Band on the Road
“I got a spreadsheet for you!” drummer/co-vocalist Nadirah “Nadi” McGill of Minneapolis’ rock group Gully Boys tells Rolling Stone. The indie band is in Los Angeles, in the middle of a 24-date tour that includes stops at Austin’s South by Southwest festival and Boise’s Treefort Music Fest. While McGill pulls …
Read More »Ingrid Andress Wonders if She's a 'Good Person' in New Song
Ingrid Andress performs an intense spiritual and moral inventory in her new song “Good Person,” released with a video on Friday. The ballad co-written by Andress with Steph Jones and Sam Ellis is the first single from the “More Hearts Than Mine” singer’s follow-up to her debut album Lady Like. …
Read More »Anitta's 'Versions of Me' Is a Tirelessly Bewitching Global Dance-Floor Experience
Are you a part of Anitta’s Algorithm Nation? OnVersions of Me, a dazzling omnibus of pop digitalia, the 29-year-old Brazilian singer-MC-dancer goes door-to-door, trying to unite the people behind her surging campaign for Global Dance-Floor Booty Inspector. Burning brightest when micromanaging every market-tested and quantized musical detail with blissfully canny …
Read More »Charli XCX Parties as Marie Antoinette, Blasphemously Sexy Monk in 'Used to Know' Video
Charli XCX embraces transformation in the new music video for her Crash track, “Used to Know.” “Used to Know,” with its sample of the Robin S. house classic “Show Me Love,” is an anthem for post break-up freedom, and the clip finds Charli fully embracing that liberation. The clip follows …
Read More »'We All Have Our Own Shit': How Tomberlin Learned to Feel Her Feelings — and Pour Them Into Her Best Music Yet
Sarah Beth Tomberlin has only lived in New York for a short time, but she leads the life of a native. The artist, who performs as Tomberlin, owns a Honda Civic, but she usually leaves it parked near her Brooklyn apartment, choosing instead to wander the boroughs by foot — …
Read More »'I Should Have Died': Dave Alvin, Seminal California Country-Punk Guitarist, Talks Private Cancer Battle
By the end of 2019, Dave Alvin knew something was wrong. He’d spent 11 of the past 12 months on the road, and for the first time in his career, he no longer felt physically capable of keeping up his furious touring pace. “I started feeling like, ‘I don’t think …
Read More »'I Can't Believe How Lucky We Are': Jeff Tweedy on the Return of Wilco's Solid Sound Festival
When Wilco are putting together the lineup for their biannual Solid Sound Festival, they have just one rule: If they love it, it’s in. “Everybody in the band keeps a running dream list of people that we would like to play with or to see,” says Jeff Tweedy, calling from …
Read More »Father John Misty Captures the Dazzling Night Life in 'Kiss Me (I Loved You)' Video
Hours before he plays two intimate shows at Rockefeller Center in New York City, Father John Misty has released a new video for “Kiss Me (I Loved You).” The track is off Josh Tillman’s new album Chloë and the Next 20th Century, released last week. Directed by David Raboy, the …
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