James Rettig

Paul Simon made his Newport Folk Festival debut with a surprise appearance during Nathaniel Rateliff’s “American Tune Revue” set on Saturday. Rateliff and his band the Night Sweats dedicated their entire show to Simon, covering a bunch of his songs before Simon himself came out to sing “Graceland,” “American Tune,” “The Boxer,”  » Read More

During Bleachers’ set at Newport Folk Festival on Saturday, Jack Antonoff brought out Clairo and Lucy Dacus — who also performed at the fest this weekend — to cover the National’s High Violet track “Bloodbuzz Ohio.” They were also joined by Goose’s Rick Mitarotonda on guitar. The National had performed at Newport on Friday.  » Read More

Rage Against The Machine are currently on their first tour in over a decade, and last night they were at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto. During their set-closing performance of “Killing In The Name,” a stagecrasher actually made it up onto the stage and they were tackled by a security guard immediately.  » Read More

Back in April, Red Hot Chili Peppers returned with their first new album in six years, Unlimited Love. Turns out they have more where that came from. The band has announced another new Rick Rubin-produced double album called Return Of The Dream Canteen, which will be released on October 14.  » Read More

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Next month, the British maximalist Max Tundra (aka musician Ben Jacobs) is releasing a remix mixtape called, shockingly, Remixtape, featuring contributions from the likes of Julia Holter, Kero Kero Bonito, A. G. Cook, and more. It’s coming out alongside reissues of Max Tundra’s three proper albums. Today, we’re getting a Katie Dey cover of “Will Get Fooled Again,”  » Read More

Back in 2019, the gauzy indie-popper Julien Chang landed on our Best New Bands list thanks to his promising debut album Jules. Today, he’s announcing its follow-up, The Sale — which will be released in November — and sharing its gliding, wistful lead single “Marmalade.”  » Read More

Earlier this year, Welsh avant-gardist Cate Le Bon released a great new album, Pompeii — one of the best of 2022 so far, even. At the beginning of the tour, she started performing a cover of John Cale’s “Big White Cloud,”  » Read More

This week, Beach Bunny are releasing their sophomore album, Emotional Creature — check out our profile of the band here. We’ve heard a few tracks from it already — “Oxygen,” “Fire Escape,” “Karaoke,” and “  » Read More