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Ted Gardner, rock manager and co-founder of Chicago music festival Lollapalooza, has died, Billboard reports. While no cause of death was given, it’s reported that Gardner died on December 28 of last year. He was 74 years old. Long before Lollapalooza’s opening day in the summer of 1991, Gardner worked as a tour manager, first with bands in his native Australia. He toured with local outfit Men at Work in the early 1980s and worked with a number of rock groups from the decade—Crowded House, Echo and the Bunnymen, and New Order among them. By the late ’80s, Gardner was managing Jane’s Addiction full-time. In the following years, he would go on to work with massive rock acts like Tool, the Verve, and Queens of the Stone Age, as well as the more niche psych rock outfit the Brian Jonestown Mass...

The 2022 Grammy Awards ceremony, originally scheduled for January 31, has been postponed, the Recording Academy and CBS announced today. The event has been rescheduled due to “the uncertainty surrounding the Omicron variant” of the coronavirus, the Recording Academy and CBS said in a joint statement. A new date has not yet been announced. Find the full statement below. Last year’s Grammys were also postponed as a result of the ongoing pandemic. Trevor Noah was recently announced as the host of the 2022 Grammys, which would mark his second consecutive year helming the ceremony. The 2022 show had been scheduled to take place at Crypto.com Arena (formerly the Staples Center) in Los Angeles, with a live broadcast on CBS. Last November, the Recording Academy announced its list of 2022 Grammy no...

Denzel Curry has announced his next album, titled Melt My Eyez See Your Future. The rapper broke the news with a Western-style trailer for the LP, which finds Curry walking through a vast desert. The clip ends with a list of credits, teasing contributions from T-Pain, Thundercat, Rico Nasty, 6lack, J.I.D, slowthai, Robert Glasper, producer and prior Curry collaborator Kenny Beats, and others. A release date has not yet been revealed. Watch the teaser below. Curry’s last solo album was 2019’s wonderful Zuu. He followed that release with a pair of Kenny Beats collaborations: 2020’s Unlocked, and its subsequent remix version, Unlocked 1.5. Revisit Pitchfork’s 2018 interview “How Denzel Curry Helped Pioneer SoundCloud Rap.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from...

Turnstile have shared their NPR “Tiny Desk (Home) Concert” performance. Filmed by Hate5six near an art installation by GIVE’s John Scharbach featuring hundreds of stuffed animals, it reportedly marks the first time a hardcore band has played the famous NPR series. Turnstile squeezed in seven songs from their album Glow On for the set: “Endless, “Underwater Boi,” “Blackout,” “Don’t Play,” a stripped-down version of “Mystery,” “T.L.C. (Turnstile Love Connection),” and “Alien Love Call.” Watch it below. Turnstile recently announced a world tour kicking off in February in support of their fourth LP Glow On. In December, Turnstile made their TV debut on Seth Meyers where they played two songs from the record. Revisit Pitchfork’s feature “How Riley Gale, Go-Go Music, and Jet Li Inspired Turnstil...