Jason Isbell’s Something More Than Free album hits stores next week, bringing with it a tracklist that veers between the stripped-back acoustics of “If it Takes a Lifetime” and the electrified stomp of “Palmetto Rose.” On the title track, though, Isbell slows down the tempo and cranks up the imagery, spinning the story of… Source: Music News

“We were at the top of our game then,” Greg Errico, drummer of Sly and the Family Stone says of the group’s 1968 stand at New York’s infamous Fillmore East. “The band was just killing it. There were moments that made my hair stand up, where that stage lifted off like… Source: Music News

Sigur Rós bassist Georg Holm, drummer Orri Páll Dýrason, touring guitarist Kjartan Holm and composer Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson have crafted a new circus-inspired instrumental soundtrack for the BBC’s upcoming documentary, The Show of Shows. Inspired by 100 years of archival footage of vaudeville, circuses and carnivals, the 14-track album, Circe, will see release… Source: Music […]

The Big Apple will host two of country’s biggest stars and a couple of Hall of Famers this fall, in a fundraising concert that sends the proceeds right back to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. This year’s edition of the annual All for the Hall… Source: Music News

Tom DeLonge and best-selling author Suzanne Young will release their new book, and first in a planned trilogy, Poet Anderson… Of Nightmares, on October 6th via publisher Simon & Schuster. Per a statement, the novel is set in “an unknown world where dreams meet reality and the chasm between the two… Source: Music News

For Turnpike Troubadours — a band that takes its name from the Indian Nation Turnpike, a 105-mile parkway stretched across southeastern Oklahoma — there’s no place like home. Armed with songs about love, loss and life in the Sooner State, the country-rockers have built one of the fiercest followings in… Source: Music News

New Order have revealed that Killers frontman Brandon Flowers, Iggy Pop, La Roux and Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands will appear on their upcoming LP, Music Complete. The record is due out September 25th. Flowers, whose band took its name from the fake group featured in New Order’s “Crystal” video, sings on the album’s closing number… Source: Music […]

After a decade-long wait, the unlikely pairing of Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian are finally releasing an album’s worth of music. The duo had first announced their project Achozen (pronounced “a chosen”) in the mid-2000s, around when the bassist was hyping an ill-fated online… Source: Music News

Before Ringo Starr was one-fourth of the most famous pop group in history, he was Richard Starkey, a sickly child born July 7th, 1940, in Liverpool, England, and raised in and out of hospitals for most of his childhood. A lifelong fan of country music, in 1959 Starkey joined a… Source: Music News

Exactly 10 years ago this week — on July 2nd, 2005, to be exact — the classic lineup of Pink Floyd reunited for a stunning four-song set at Live 8. It was their first time playing together since The Wall tour ended in June 1981, and the tragic death of Floyd… Source: Music News