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Jeris Johnson, awfultune, and More Headline Two Holiday-Shortened Weeks of SPIN’s Untitled Twitch Stream
Normally, it’s right about now when we’d tell you what to expect next week on SPIN’s Untitled Twitch Stream. But seeing as next Friday is Christmas (and no one wants to spend their Christmas reading a Twitch schedule), we’re providing you with the next two weeks all in one place. Don’t forget, we still have Maxine Ashley’s set later today, so be sure to tune in for that as well. Since we’re taking a short break for the holidays, next week consists of four livestreams in three days. You’ll get the double shot of Jack Name and Jeris Johnson performances on Monday, a little Tiki Lau on Tuesday, and Merci playing video games with us on Wednesday. The next week figures to be equally busy, as the good folks at Quadio will be hosting a showcase of their favorite artists on Monday, awfultune ...
Bob Dylan to Release Outtakes Set 1970, Includes Nine Songs With George Harrison
A few weeks ago, a European record store got its hands on 1970, a limited-edition Bob Dylan compilation featuring outtakes and rarities, plus collaborations with George Harrison. It quickly sold out and Dylan fans were left in the dark on how they could score the coveted part of the Bob Dylan – 50th Anniversary Collection, which featured rare sessions released due to what Columbia Records/Legacy called the “copyright extension series (which began in 2012).” That previously limited-edition set will be widely released on Feb. 26, 2021. The three-disc collection of previously unavailable studio performances includes the complete May 1, 1970 session of nine songs featuring Harrison. The pair perform together on Dylan originals (“One Too Many Mornings,” “Gates of Eden,” “Mama, You Bee...
The Voidz and Dua Lipa Perform, Paul McCartney Guests on Fallon: Watch
Thursday night was a busy one over on The Tonight Show, as Jimmy Fallon welcomed Paul McCartney, The Voidz, and Dua Lipa. Each musician was there in a different capacity, with Macca serving as the featured interview. The Beatle discussed his new album, McCartney III, which came together while he was locked down with the family of his eldest daughter, Mary. “I’d have a drink before dinner… and the kids are running around. And once one of them would say, ‘What’d you do at the studio today?’ And I’d say, ‘Ah,’” the legendary artist recalled. “Pull my phone out, get the little boom box going, and I’d play it to them. So they got a preview of the whole album a day at a time. It made it kind of more fun, really. It was like I was just making it for them.” He also touched briefly on a...
Foo Fighters and Billie Eilish to Headline Virtual ALTer EGO Festival
Billie Eilish and Foo Fighters are set to headline iHeartRadio’s virtual ALTer EGO festival in early 2021. Taking place on January 28th, the event also promises archival performances from Beck, The Black Keys, The Killers, Coldplay, MUSE, Blink-182, Cage the Elephant, and Mumford and Sons. ALTer EGO 2021 will livestream for free on LiveXLive.com and on the LiveXLive mobile and OTT apps for iOS, Android, Roku, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV, and broadcast live across more than 80 alternative and rock iHeartRadio stations on January 28th starting at 9pm ET/ 6pm PT. The virtual festival goes down just a week prior to the release of Foo Fighters’ new album, Medicine at Midnight, which drops on February 5th. Though they’ve been unable to tour in support of the album’s impending release, they have ...
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Is an Exclamation Point on Chadwick Boseman’s Inspiring Life: Review
The Pitch: By definition, the word value means “the regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something.” A person’s value, however, is most often overlooked, under-appreciated or even unknown. To understand one’s worth is a unique ability that not many possess – that attribute alone can change the trajectory of an individual’s life, drastically. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom digs deep into the core of one of America’s most beautiful artforms, during a time where segregation and racial oppression escalated across the country. Based on August Wilson’s Broadway play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom chronicles an emotional recording session housed within a Chicago studio in 1927. Along with a string of talented actors, George C. Wolfe’s direction explores the dicho...
Toro y Moi Remixes HAIM’s “3AM”: Stream
Earlier this month, Toro y Moi remixed Caroline Polachek’s “Hit Me Where It Hurts” with help from Deftones frontman Chino Moreno. The chillwave artist also known as Chaz Bundick has returned today with another reworking — this time for the three sisters of HAIM. Toro y Moi reimagined HAIM’s “3AM”, which appears on their Grammy-nominated album Women in Music Pt. III. While the original version saw the HAIM siblings play around with space and sparseness, this new remix is all about the layers and textures. Toro y Moi folds in echoes of electric guitar and fills voids with heavier bass. The whole thing reverberates with the kind of energy associated with a 6 a.m. wake-up call rather than a low-key, middle-of-the-night hang. Hear it for yourself below. Editors’ Picks Women in Music Pt. I...
Exit Interview: Margo Price Reflects on ‘Up and Down’ 2020
Like so many artists, Margo Price had a, well, interesting year. The Nashville singer-songwriter originally planned to release That’s How Rumors Get Started, her third studio album, in May before getting pushed to July. But 2020 had other plans. Her husband, Jeremy Ivey, contracted COVID, a devastating tornado crashed into Nashville and she was raising a newborn. If you slept on Price’s latest project—which made our list of the best albums of 2020 — it saw Price inching more toward Southern rock and away from country. The album featured some of Price’s most intimate songwriting, touching on a rocky point in her romantic relationship when distance became a strain, the struggles of being a touring musician who loves the road but misses her family and motherhood. Nearly six m...
Brody Dalle on the Distillers’ Return, New Music and ‘Baby It’s COVID Outside’
The Distillers may very well be one of the most important punk bands from the first half of the 2000s. In four years, they released three albums (each more successful than the last), captured a unique sound that molded classic, straightforward punk rock with the attitude and emotion of the decade, and turned frontwoman Brody Dalle into one of the era’s most identifiable vocalists. As part of a heavily male-dominated scene, Dalle and her bandmates showed millions of then-teenaged millennials that ladies too could pierce their lips, spike their hair, and rock just as hard as men without needing the mainstream commercial appeal of a No Doubt or Garbage. Then the band pretty much immediately fell apart and before breaking up in 2006. Dalle went on to form Spinnerette with guitarist Tony “Bradl...
Matt Cameron’s New Project Aims to Make Up for a Lost Year
Matt Cameron expected to be on the road with Pearl Jam for most of 2020. In March, the band released Gigaton, their first new album in seven years, and they planned several U.S. legs and a European run that would have kept them busy for the rest of the year. Those plans, obviously, changed. But instead of retreating after Pearl Jam’s short-circuited year, Cameron went back to work on his own material. First, he got cracking on his second solo album; then he dusted off another project that had been in the works for a few years. While recording Gigaton, Cameron had bounced a few loose ideas off of his pals, including Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins and the Melvins’ Buzz Osborne and Steven McDonald. When Hawkins threw some vocals on a few cuts and made some other suggestion...
FEAR FACTORY’s DINO CAZARES Says Revisiting ‘Demanufacture’ Helps Him Craft New Songs
Run Out Groove is celebrating the 25th anniversary of FEAR FACTORY‘s classic “Demanufacture” album by issuing it on vinyl and expanding it with a previously unreleased live concert from 1996’s Ozzfest. “Demanufacture” has been mastered for vinyl with lacquers cut by FEAR FACTORY‘s producer-engineer Damien Rainaud. The three-LP set will be pressed on transparent blue, solid white, and black mixed-color vinyl at Record Industry and housed in a tri-fold jacket containing an exclusive poster. Pre-orders are open now. Asked in a new interview with The Pit if he ever revisits “Demanfucature”, FEAR FACTORY guitarist Dino Cazares said (see video below): “I sometimes look back at that record quite a lot, because it was a groundbreaking rec...
Ex-IRON MAIDEN Singer BLAZE BAYLEY To Release ‘War Within Me’ Album In April
British heavy metal vocalist Blaze Bayley, who fronted IRON MAIDEN more than 20 years ago, will release a new studio album, “War Within Me”, on April 9, 2021. All songs were written and produced by Blaze and guitarist Chris Appleton. The LP was mastered by Ade Emsley and features art design by Akirant Illustration. “War Within Me” track listing: 01. War Within Me 02. 303 03. Warrior 04. Pull Yourself Up 05. Witches Night 06. 18 Flights 07. The Dream Of Alan Turing 08. The Power Of Nikola Tesla 09. The Unstoppable Stephen Hawking 10. Every Storm Ends Last month, Bayley spoke to the “Brutally Delicious” podcast about the progress of the recording sessions for his new solo LP. “We had the plan, two years ago, we said, ‘Right, this is when weR...
KROKUS To Release ‘Adios Amigos Live @ Wacken’ CD/DVD In February
Veteran Swiss hard rockers KROKUS will release a new CD/DVD, “Adios Amigos Live @ Wacken”, on February 19, 2021. There is probably no band that doesn’t dream of playing at Germany’s Wacken Open Air, the biggest festival in the metal world. KROKUS rocked there for the second time in August 2019, this time on the main stage. What belonged together came together and the guys, who have played over 2,000 concerts worldwide in their 46-year career, experienced one of their strongest moments ever. Says bassist Chris Von Rohr: “It was a magical day for us! From the first song on we felt that the feeling, the connection and the sound were right. Conclusion: a huge hard rock party.” Adds guitarist Fernando Von Arb: “Often the best concerts are not recorded o...
