Rachel Brodsky

Earlier in August, the Atlanta music festival Music Midtown was canceled due to Georgia gun laws, aka the Safe Carry Protection Act, a law rebranded by critics as the “Guns Everywhere” law, which allows people to carry guns in bars, churches, schools, private businesses (when permitted by owners), and on publicly owned land like Piedmont Park,  » Read More

Beabadoobee is still in heavy promotion mode for her Album Of The Week Beatopia, and soon she’ll hit Japan, the UK, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, and more countries on tour before heading to the US in late October. Before that, though, Beabadoobee visited SiriusXM for a live session,  » Read More

A few years ago, Ozzy Osbourne said he’d be open to a Black Sabbath reunion at the Commonwealth Games in his hometown of Birmingham, UK, telling ITV it “would be fantastic” to play at the games’ 2022 opening ceremony “with Black Sabbath or on my own. Well, today Osbourne did reunite with his Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi in a surprise performance at the closing of the Commonwealth Games in […]

Back in May, Showtime released a documentary on Sheryl Crow called Sheryl, which came with a feature soundtrack. Now, Crow is back with a truly great cover of Post Malone’s “Circles,” which originally appeared on Posty’s 2019 album Hollywood’s Bleeding. Crow’s reimagining definitely isn’t your average cover — the “Soak Up The Sun”  » Read More

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In another example of music festivals being chaotic this year, a Lollapalooza security guard was arrested over the weekend after she allegedly sent texts and Facebook messages threatening a mass shooting. The guard, 18-year-old Janya Williams, had been hired for the weekend festival and allegedly made the threats in order to leave work early.  » Read More

In February, Australian alt-rock band Gang Of Youths released their third studio album, angel in realtime. They’re currently gigging around Australia, and in September they’ll head to Ireland and then the US before circling back to Europe. For now, they’ve done a “Like A Version” cover of Travis’ 1999 classic “Why Does It Always Rain On Me?”  » Read More

Frank Ocean is selling a new line of accessories via his luxury brand Homer. Those include pendants, earrings, a keychain, and a diamond-encrusted 18-karat gold cock ring, aka, “the XXXL H-Bone Ring.” The H-Bone Ring will run you $25,570, which I guess brings new meaning to the term “baller.”  » Read More

The Decemberists are currently on their Arise From The Bunkers tour, and on Thursday night they performed two new songs at Marymoor Park in Redmond, Washington. Among classics like “Leslie Anne Levine” and “Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect,” the band played new songs “Black Mariah” and “William Fitzwilliam.” The former is a full-on debut,  » Read More