Wilco are one of the most respected bands on the planet — paragons of good taste, masters of genre-bridging craftsmanship and chill independence. Considering that heavy rep, it’s strange to think that when Jeff Tweedy put together Wilco’s first lineup 20 years ago, their loose bar-band vibe was a defiant response… Source: Music News

When Mo Pitney was 12 years old he had a “boxer’s fracture,” a broken arm in a cast that went from his elbow to over the ring and pinky finger on his right hand. That didn’t stop him from learning to play guitar and eventually moving on to banjo. The Illinois… Source: Music News

If there’s one thing Dillon Francis knows for sure, on a recent morning before his first cup of coffee, it’s this: the early days of his career, sleeping on friends of friends’ couches and working on music whenever he felt like it, are so totally long gone. Just a blurry day or so… Source: Music […]

“Cold-hearted girl / Don’t hurt me like this anymore,” Rivers Cuomo croons on “Go Away,” a surfy sing-along from Weezer’s 2014 LP, Everything Will Be Alright in the End. The track’s goofy video finds the frontman in that rejected mindset as he attempts to woo guest singer Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast by… Source: Music News

Meghan Linsey transports listeners to New Orleans within the first 10 seconds of her new song, “Sunshine in My Soul,” making good on her promise to reflect more of her Louisiana roots with her career rebirth. After a booming horn section and snare drums caffeinate the tune’s short intro, the… Source: Music News

The Eagles are a few days away from wrapping up their “History of the Eagles” tour. It’s kept them on the road for more than two years, during which time they’ve played over 140 shows and made almost enough money to bail Greece out of its economic crisis. It also saw them reunite with… Source: Music News

If you wish to launch a humdinger of an argument – and one you might win – sidle up to just about any 1960s rock fan and offer the opinion that it was not the Beatles, the Stones, Pink Floyd, Hendrix, the Velvet Underground or the Byrds who were the… Source: Music News

Donald S. Joyce, one of the driving forces behind the experimental music collective Negativland, died Wednesday of heart failure in Oakland, California. He was 71. Joyce began contributing to the ensemble in the early Eighties, while still working as a DJ at the Berkeley, California radio station KPFA, where he hosted… Source: Music News

Mumford & Sons, in their own British way, have built a career out of uncovering and exploring the myriad facets of Americana, and their new video for “Ditmas” taps into one of the country’s most cherished relationships: A man and his horse. The new clip juxtaposes footage of the band performing… Source: Music […]

Eminem spiraled into the demented depths of his brain and returned with an outrageous six-minute freestyle on Sway in the Morning, scorching Bill Cosby, Donald Trump, Caitlyn Jenner and more with characteristically grotesque grandeur. Despite working without a beat, Em dropped a barrage of stanzas that materialized in the instants between the small, reasonable… Source: Music News