Outkast will mark the 20th anniversary of their 2000 LP Stankonia with a vinyl reissue as well as an expanded digital album packed with rare and unreleased remixes tied to the LP’s biggest singles. On October 30th, digital bundles centered around “So Fresh, So Clean,” “B.O.B. (Bombs Over Baghdad)” and …
Read More »The Postal Service Audition Anne Hathaway, Kenny G, Slash, and More in Get Out the Vote PSA
The Postal Service sit through a slew of chaotic auditions in a new get-out-the-vote PSA for HeadCount’s Make Your Vote Count campaign. The video was directed by Tom Scharpling, who helmed a similar clip the Postal Service released in 2013 to mark the 10th-anniversary reissue of Give Up. In the …
Read More »RS Country Music Picks: Week of October 5th
Whether it’s coming out of Nashville, New York, L.A., or points in between, there’s no shortage of fresh tunes, especially from artists who have yet to become household names. Rolling Stone Countryselects some of the best new music releases from country and Americana artists. Olivia Wolf, “Young Widow Blues” Olivia …
Read More »Music at Home: Walls of Sound
I’ve spent quarantine living with my girlfriend in a scantly furnished family home in Brooklyn. We’re surrounded by empty walls that constantly echo our conversations, and to pass the time — and fill all that extra space — we play music as loud as it will go. The louder we …
Read More »Watch 'Weird Al' Yankovic Moderate Presidential Debate in 'We're All Doomed' Video
“Weird Al” Yankovic teamed up with the Gregory Brothers for a comedic musical take on Tuesday night’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden with their video for the song “We’re All Doomed.” Yankovic and the Gregory Brothers’ satirical rendering accurately summed up the general consensus following the debate: …
Read More »Girl Talk Teams Up With Bas for New Song 'Fallin”
Mashup king Girl Talk and Queens rapper Bas have reteamed for the new track “Fallin’,” their second collaboration following “Outta Pocket,” a song off the Dreamville compilation Revenge of the Dreamers III. “I first saw Girl Talk at Catalpa Music Festival in New York City in 2012. I said, ‘Who’s …
Read More »Flashback: AC/DC Rip Through 'TNT' at 1977 London Gig
New photos of AC/DC hit the internet this month, seeming to confirm longstanding reports that they have regrouped for a new album. The images were briefly shared on the band’s official homepage before being pulled down, but not before fans captured then and spread them all over the web. The …
Read More »Punks Unite in Trailer for Rock Against Racism Doc 'White Riot'
A new documentary, White Riot, will look back at how the punk scene in Great Britain came close to swinging to the far right, sparking a Rock Against Racism movement there in the mid-Seventies. The film will come out via Virtual Cinema on October 16th. “We said, what we need …
Read More »Yola, Rufus Wainwright Set for New Season of 'Austin City Limits'
Austin City Limits has announced the first half of the lineup for its 46th season, kicking off October 3rd with a tribute to late singer-songwriter John Prine, who appeared eight times on the series. Jason Isbell provides the introduction to the episode. All tapings except for one (with Yola) were …
Read More »2020 ACMs: Watch Miranda Lambert Perform 'Bluebird' at Bluebird Cafe
Miranda Lambert performed her hit song “Bluebird” at its namesake, the Bluebird Cafe, in Nashville, for the 2020 Academy of Country Music Awards. Like other award ceremonies held during the Covid-19 pandemic, the ACMs this year were conducted without an audience, featuring the night’s performers at different historic venues throughout …
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