System of a Down guitarist Daron Malakian, who also fronts the side project Scars on Broadway, recently revisited his past in an interview where he broke apart some of the band’s biggest hits and recounted his history with music. “I started collecting records when I was maybe 4,” he says …
Read More »
Just before David Lynch began making Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me in the early Nineties, he started up an experimental music project with his collaborator, composer Angelo Badalamenti. They dubbed the project Thought Gang and after asking some musicians to improvise sounds for Lynch’s poetry, the filmmaker said he …
Read More »
Jack Black, Tom Morello, Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler and Tool’s Adam Jones were among those that took part in this year’s Bowl for Ronnie, an annual charity event that raises money for the late metal singer’s Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund. “Ronnie James Dio, huge influence …
Read More »
Nothing sums up 2018 like the fact that Toto’s “Africa” has become our unofficial anthem. It’s a song that’s ridiculous by definition — an Eighties ode to Africa by a bunch of L.A. rock dudes who’d never set foot in the place. But something about this song speaks to our …
Read More »
Kissannounced the first wave of dates for the band’s “End of the Road” farewell tour, a worldwide trek that kicks off in 2019. The opening North American stretch begins January 31st in Vancouver, British Columbia and hits over 40 arenas across the U.S. and Canada – including stops at New …
Read More »
Megyn Kelly is out at NBC after making controversial comments about blackface and Halloween costumes during an episode of her morning show Tuesday. “‘Megyn Kelly Today’ is not returning,” according to an NBC statement. “Next week, the 9 a.m. hour will be hosted by other TODAY co-anchors.” During her 9 …
Read More »
Ryley Walker is a fluid guitar player whose songs rarely take you in any expected direction and a proud torch-bearer for the vaunted croon-through-your-beard school of indie-rock singer-songwriters.His very fine 2018 LP Deafman Glance is definitely worth your time, setting warmly abstruse mumblings to delicate avant-woodsy guitar magic, updating the …
Read More »
Stephen Colbertcriticized President Trump’s Twitter response to the disturbing news that pipe bombs were sent to numerous prominent Democrats and Trump critics – including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama,former Attorney General Eric Holder, California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, Democratic donor George Soros and CNN‘s New York bureau. On Wednesday’s Late Show, …
Read More »
Tony Bennett, Jackson Browne and Jim James are among the artists who have contributed to a new album, Songs for Swing Left, designed to raise awareness and promote voter turnout ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. Guitar shop owner Reuben Cox compiled the record in partnership with Swing Left, an …
Read More »
Dan + Shay have announced a new series of headlining tour dates set to begin in early spring 2019. The CMA Award-nominated duo of Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney are currently guests on Chris Young’s Losing Sleep World Tour, which runs through the end of 2018. After opening 2019 with …
Read More »