Years before meeting Wynonna Judd and Cactus Moser to cut a country album, Pete Scobell paid the bills as a Navy SEAL and a professional athlete. Two traumatizing head injuries and a solid dose of music therapy later, Scobell was well on his way down the road to recovery. This… Source: Music News

Elvis Costello will release his autobiography Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink this October, and the rocker has announced that his memoir will be accompanied by a two-disc “soundtrack album” culled from Costello’s expansive catalog. Costello himself curated the 38-song collection, selecting tracks with the deepest emotional connection to the themes and stories from his… Source: Music News

With 35 MPH Town due out October 9th, Toby Keith stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night to drum up some buzz — literally — for his upcoming album. Backed by horns, pedal steel and synthesized steel drums, he debuted the record’s newest single, “Rum is the… Source: Music News

Gary Clark Jr. delivers a scorching rendition of the aching, uplifting “The Healing,” live at Austin’s Arlyn Studios in the first video from the guitarist’s new album, The Story of Sonny Boy Slim, out Friday. Despite the intimate, candle-lit setting, Clark Jr. and his band are loud and powerful. Clark Jr. unleashes… Source: Music […]

Muse have unveiled a guitar-heavy cover of Chvrches’ synth-pop track “Lies,” recorded during a recent session for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge. The band attacks the track with distorted guitars, fuzz bass and propulsive drum fills, as frontman Matt Bellmany adds his trademark melodramatic vibrato. It’s a dynamic reimagining of Chvrches’… Source: Music News

More than 30 years after they were first dismissed as vapid New Wave man-dolls, Duran Duran are still kicking, and sounding surprisingly vibrant. Their 14th LP features Mark Ronson and longtime collaborator Nile Rodgers, as well as appearances by New Age soul queen Janelle Monáe, ex–Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist… Source: Music News

Low have been indie rock’s most economical songwriters for 20 years and running, but their 11th LP takes a bold step toward pop. “What Part of Me,” with its upbeat percussion, fuzzy guitar textures and sweet harmonized lyrics about relationship boundaries (“What part of me don’t you own?”), feels like… Source: Music News

Gary Clark Jr.’s versatility is both blessing and curse. The Austin ace’s 2012 breakthrough album, Blak and Blu, shuffle-mixed through blues roots; raw, Hendrix-channeling solos; glossy, modern R&B; and points between, but never quite figured out how to connect the dots. Three years later, his studio follow-up does — mainly… Source: Music News

Decades after Metallica and Megadeth started writing radio-friendly songs, thrash-metal firebrands Slayer are still courting controversy — depicting Jesus in hell on their new LP cover and howling, “A little violence is the ultimate drug/Let’s get high!” on standout “Vices.” Chilean-American frontman Tom Araya even teases a race war on… Source: Music News

Alice Cooper has said the debut from Hollywood Vampires — a supergroup led by Cooper, Joe Perry and a flashy guitar upstart named Johnny Depp — is a tribute to his “dead drunk friends” (also the title of a chantey-like original tune here). But it’s mostly made of surprisingly upbeat… Source: Music News