"A reminder that we're not made to do life by ourselves" - Norwegian/Welsh folk-pop duo Firewoodisland says about their newest song 'Hollow Coves' (listen below). PopMatters says their music stands alongside the chamber/indie/folk pop-rock excellence of artists like Bon Iver, Of Monsters and Men, and Passenger. It comes out on band's 2nd album 'Firewoodisland', in 2020.

A session Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash recorded in Nashville in 1969 is set for release in the 15th installment of Dylan’s Bootleg Series, Rolling Stone reports. The 3xCD set 'Travelin’ Thru, 1967 – 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15' compiles their session where they laid down 'Girl From the North Country', jammed with Carl […]

DJ Premier let the word out this week that he is working on a new album of unreleased material from Gang Starr, his iconic collaboration with the late MC Guru, Consequence of Sound reports. Yesterday, we get our first taste of the surprise effort with the song 'Family and Loyalty' featuring J. Cole.

A pretty context, and, finally, a pretty song. Toni Cornell wrote the song 'Far Away Places' when she was just 12 (she turned 15 on Wednesday). Chris Cornell produced it for his daughter, as one of the last songs he will record before his death in May 2017, Billboard reports. It is featured in a […]

Electro-pop producer and singer KUČKA is the newest artist at the Scottish independent label LuckyMe, and she came there with a present - her new single 'Drowning' (watch below). KUČKA, aka Laura Jane Lowther, has collaborated and co-written with an array of high-profile artists, including SOPHIE, Vince Staples and A$AP Rocky, Fact Magazine reports.

London rapper Dave has won the 2019 Mercury Prize with his debut album 'Psychodrama', a critically acclaimed concept album about mental health, relationships and social conditions. This year the Mercury shortlist was just great: 1975‘s 'A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships', slowthai‘s 'Nothing Great About Britain', black midi‘s 'Schlagenheim', Little Simz‘s 'GREY area', Foals‘ 'Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1', Nao‘s 'Saturn', IDLES‘ 'Joy as […]

Pianist and singer Kodi Lee, who is blind and autistic, has won the America’s Got Talent show competition, season 14. Lee has been the favourite since he appeared at the show, and won after a string of stirring performances at the piano. Billboard reports. The award: $1 million grand prize and a headlining show in Las Vegas, at […]

Alabama Shakes frontwoman Brittany Howard has shared new single '13th Century Metal', a groovy-jazzy song with powerful lyrics - "Every day I am alive I am given opportunity to become that which I admire most of others. I am nonviolent/I am a master student and my spirit will never be stomped out'” (watch the live version below). […]

Amazon has launched a high definition, “lossless audio” service Amazon Music HD with 50 million songs available in CD quality. The service is available now in the US, UK, Germany, and Japan for $14.99 per month, or $12.99 a month for Amazon Prime subscribers. This makes Amazon the first of the three streaming titans to offer high-fidelity […]

Toronto rapper Haviah Mighty has won the 2019 Polaris Music Prize - the prestigious Canadian prize - with her debut album '13th Floor'. Accepting the prize she explained - "for me, the 13th floor is something that we remove from our reality because it is something that we don't understand and therefore we dismiss it". […]

In two days following the news of Ric Ocasek's death, sales of The Cars' catalog of albums and songs surged by 2,662%, Billboard reports. The Cars’ combined albums and songs sold 27,000 copies on Sept. 16 and in the late hours of Sept. 15. In the two previous days, The Cars’ music and sold 1,000.

The latest late pop-star with a hologram tour is Whitney Houston with her 3D image traveling through Mexico and Europe from January to April 2020, and North America in the fall. An Evening With Whitney: The Whitney Houston Hologram Tour is being produced by BASE Hologram, the company behind the Roy Orbison/Buddy Holly hologram tour. Apart from […]

NME's Mark Beaumont made a selection of best covers of songs by Ric Ocasek's The Cars, to mark the passing of the new wave rock visionary. There are: soft rock standard 'Drive' covered by songwriter Matt Pond PA, new wave nugget 'My Best Friend's Girl' in a "gurning grunge" treatment by Nirvana, "a primal, drum-led […]

American rapper Post Malone climbed the top of Billboard 200 chart chart with his third studio album 'Hollywood’s Bleeding'. His newest LP had the second-biggest opening week of 2019 with a total of 489,000 equivalent album units. Of that total unit sum, 200,000 were in album sales, while TEA units were 11,000 and SEA units […]

'Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story' is a "story about the fans and the musicians" the author Adam Dubin says in a All Music interview. "I tried to treat them equally, because there was a time when everybody, from James Hetfield on down, was just an 18-year-old kid […]

“It’s basically McDonald’s music – created quickly for a quick buck, but there’s nothing really going on at a deeper level and it doesn’t make your hairs stand up. I want to be the opposite of that” - UK rapper Master Peace tells NME about today's hip-hop, and he really is different. Take his rapping […]

NME marks the passing of Daniel Johnston with a choice of 13 of his best songs - "wonderful tales of mortality and purity" by "wonderful, gifted musician".  

The music video for ‘Don’t Call Me Angel’ – Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus and Lana Del Rey’s theme song for the 'Charlie’s Angels' remake – has arrived (watch below). Grande is the mastermind here, Cyrus the strongwoman, and Del Rey the weapons expert; they look cool, wear angel's wings and eat... and get kicked out by the movie director Elizabeth Banks.

“What does music do, Where does music start? How simple can it be? How honest can it be?” - Mark Nelson asked himself before he started making his latest album, 'A Son', under his Pan American moniker, Fact Magazine reports. The acoustic-focused LP is due out November 8. Listen to the guitar melancholy of  'Memphis […]

California AB-5, which has already been passed by the Senate and verbally supported by the Governor, seeks to give regular employee benefits to individual contractors, like Uber drivers. It essentially turns freelance workers into actual employees of the companies. The music industry will be directly affected by the bill in the sense that independent artists […]

UK producer Special Request has announced his new album 'Offworld' with just a few words - “what if Jam & Lewis signed to Metroplex? 80s soul meets Detroit electro". SR has released a first song from it - 'Shepperton Moon Landing', which "frames breathy R&B samples against a backdrop of space age synths and earworm […]

Police in Montana, USA blasted AC/DC to move a bison blocking the road. The Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office shared a picture of the road-blocking bison on their Facebook page, stating: “Being a deputy around West Yellowstone comes with unusual duties, including herding bison off the highway so no one gets hurt. When deputies respond to a bison on […]

Lo-fi singer, songwriter and visual artist Daniel Johnston, rose to cult fame in the 80’s alternative and underground music scene. An outsider figure revered by musicians including Kurt Cobain and Tom Waits, his style combined childlike innocence, the avant grade and the eccentric – a style which earned him cult status amongst his many fans, The Austin Chronicle reports. […]

"As much as we try, we cannot always control the feelings that enter our lives. They can come in unexpectedly, like a wild animal appearing just when you thought yourself alone. Have you ever crossed paths with a wolf? In the North, where we lived and worked for many years, they call them Amaruq" - […]

Baltimore singer :3LON has shared a his new single ‘Aria of Resilience’ produced by fellow Baltimore-based musician Sentinel and built around a harp sample derived from musical notes painted on a body in Hieronymus Bosch’s classic painting 'Garden of Earthly Delights', Fact Magazine reports. :3LON wrote that the lyrics were "written from the perspective of a character in a medieval […]

British historian Mark Lewisohn, one of the world's leading authorities on the Beatles, played a tape to a Guardian journalist of a meeting held 50 years ago containing a disagreement that sheds new light on Beatles' breakup. It was "common knowledge" that the Beatles knew 'Abbey Road' was their last album and they wanted to […]

UK newcomer Slowthai and Miami rapper Denzel Curry have a new collaborative track 'Psycho', where they trade verses over chopped up horror movie violin screeches, courtesy of English producer Kwes Darko.

Prince’s classic double-album '1999' has been remastered for the very first time and expanded with 35 previously unreleased tracks for an upcoming Super Deluxe reissue. The new edition of the album will be available in deluxe and remastered versions, out Nov. 29. Released in 1982, the album was Prince’s first true crossover success, and catapulted […]

BBC has a nice video-article about the Dance Theatre of Harlem, the first Black classical ballet company, founded by Arthur Mitchell in a converted garage in Harlem in 1969. They talked to Virginia Johnson, one of the first dancers to join the company, now DTH's artistic director, who says that at the beginning "there were […]

All four original members of the iconic goth band - Peter Murphy, Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins, and David J - will take the stage together 11/3 for a reunion show at LA’s Hollywood Palladium, Brooklyn Vegan reports. Since Bauhaus initially broke up in 1983, they’ve reunited several times in various formations. In 1998 they did […]