Alewya shares a hard-hitting reggae song ‘Dragon’ of her new EP; Mitski goes cold & clubby on 'The Only Heartbreaker'; Nils Frame shares a beautiful lullaby ‘Late’; Robert Plant & Alison Krauss have a new album out, with the Calexico cover ‘Quattro (World Drifts In)’ serving as a lovely and warm opening to it.
'Bread Song' by Black Country, New Road is a slow-burning, mighty transoid psych song; Robert Plant and Alison Krauss conquer with beauty and style with 'It Don't Bother Me', a Bert Jansch cover.
Former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant claimed in a new interview that bands who stay together too long look “sadly decrepit” when playing live. “Most musicians form a band, then they stay in the band until it’s over - 20 years, 30 years, 50 years, whatever it is - and it starts to look sadly decrepit. It’s like people hanging onto a life raft, or staying in a comfortable place” - Plant told MOJO. Several years ago, Plant swore he would never reunite with Led Zeppelin again if the offer presented itself, out of fear that their old age could squash their legacy. Plant is working with Alison Krauss now - he explained it’s fun to write songs with a fellow musician where you’ve “got nothing to lose” because there’s no expectation, NME reports.
Marisa Anderson & William Tyler released their new album with the haunting ‘Haunted By Water’ closing the LP; house producer Ross From Friends shares 'The Daisy', accompanied by a funny and amazing Rubic-cube-themed video; Eddie Vedder’s daughter Olivia Vedder shares a song ‘My Father’s Daughter', written by her dad and Irish songwriter Glen Hansard for the new Sean Penn movie ‘Flag Day’; Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are back in collaborative action with ‘Can’t Let Go’; Esperanza Spalding shares ‘Formwela 10’, song created “for grieving the consequences of, becoming more alert to, and dissolving one’s own romantic-entitlement tendencies”; Berlin-based saxophonist Bendik Giske shares a minimalist and atmospheric 'Flutter'.
Former Led Zeppelin singer talks in his 'Digging Deep' podcast about how he spent the lockdown cleaning up his house, finding on the way plenty of music he worked on and never released. Plant says there's some "incredible" and "great" music there. He's instructed his kids to make it all available for free "when I kick the bucket".
A lovely interview with Robert Plant in the Spin about his anthology (out today), how his music evolved through time. He shared advice for aspiring musicians: "Keep it light. Keep growing. Keep moving. Keep listening all the time. There’s some spectacular music out and about, and these influences will definitely affect what these kids of the new generations will do. They’ll look back at me and they’ll say, wow… he must have been a musician, too”. 'Nothing Takes the Place of You' is a new song on the anthology - listen below.
Robert Plant has a new band Saving Grace, playing British folk, the latest song they did is a great cover of 'Everybody's Song' by Low, a true cover for a different song; Haim announce new album ‘Women in Music Pt. III’ with a single 'The Steps', accompanied by a great video made by Paul Thomas Anderson; RINSE goes solo - and post-punky - on his new single 'Tell Me Tell Me Tell Me'; David Berman (Purple Mountains, Silver Jews) collaborators Woods made "a gateway into dream and an escape from everyday reality" with 'Where Do You Go When You Dream'.
"Lyrically, now, I can’t relate to it, because it was so long ago. I would have no intention ever to write along those abstract lines anymore", Robert Plant said about 'Stairway to Heaven', adding - "lyrically, now, and even vocally, I go, ‘I’m not sure about that'". The rest of the song, however, Plant says, […]
