Kurt Vile embarks on his own space odyssey in the trippy, half-animated video for “Life Like This,” off the Philadelphia rocker’s upcoming LP, B’lieve I’m Goin Down. Directed and animated by Adam Avilla, the clip opens with Vile idly passing time in a recording studio, playing a guitar or piano or simply… Source: Music […]

Just like the Wu-Tang Clan, Jack White and Third Man Records are for the children: The label has teamed up with Light in the Attic to release a children’s music compilation, This Record Belongs to ____, as well as a child-friendly turntable. The compilation features songs by Harry Nilsson, Woody Guthrie, Nina… Source: Music […]

Taking in one of the Legendary Shack Shakers’ thrilling, sometimes terrifying, live performances is akin to witnessing a gospel revival or even a snake-handling ceremony. And for good reason: the Kentucky band’s magnetic leader, vocalist and harmonica maven J.D. Wilkes spent his formative years at a charismatic religious school, where… Source: Music News

While enjoying a short break from Depeche Mode, singer Dave Gahan reunited with production crew Soulsavers for a second collaboration album, Angels & Ghosts, due out this fall. “All of This and Nothing,” the first track to be released from the record, finds them dwelling in cinematic strings and gospel organ… Source: Music News

Midway through every Rolling Stones show, Mick Jagger leaves the stage for Keith Richards to deliver two songs. Each time, Richards proves he’s a formidable frontman himself. In addition to his crucial contributions as a guitarist and songwriter, Richards is responsible for delivering some peak moments in the Stones discography, from wired rockers (1972’s “Happy,”… Source: Music News

Forty years ago, the life and career of Hank Williams, Jr. was at a crossroads. A chart fixture for over a decade, the country singer had grown weary of recording by the typical Nashville rules. His style began to change on 1975’s Hank Williams Jr. and Friends, a musically adventurous… Source: Music News

The Who’s ongoing 50th-anniversary tour resumes September 14th in Portland, Oregon, but those that can’t make one of the shows can head to their local movie theater on October 8th to see The Who in Hyde Park. The film features a complete concert taped June 26th, 2015, at London’s Hyde Park, as… Source: Music News

Funkadelic and Boston production duo Soul Clap enjoy a casual Corvette cruise and confront the horrors of unmitigated oil consumption in the surreal live-action/claymation clip for “In Da Kar.” Recorded during the pair’s 2013 sessions — and featuring a rare appearance from Sly Stone on keys — “In Da Kar” boasts a slick,… Source: Music […]

Seven months after the release of Terraplane, Steve Earle is already working on new music, funneling his frustration with America’s ongoing Confederate flag debate — an issue that continues to divide the Bible Belt, with Mississippi refusing to remove the Confederate emblem from its own state flag — into a newly-released… Source: Music News

For years, Lee Ving, the vocalist and leader of impish punk bruisers Fear, has been teasing the release of a song the group recorded with John Belushi in 1981. He’s finally putting out the tune — the appropriately snotty-sounding “Neighbors,” which was supposed to accompany the Belushi movie of the same… Source: Music News