Rachel Brodsky

On Thursday, Stone Temple Pilots’ seminal debut album Core turned 30. On Thursday night, Scott Weiland’s previously unreleased cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” also dropped — it’ll appear on the Deluxe edition of Weiland’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year,  » Read More

A couple got engaged onstage last night at Gorillaz’ World Tour 2022 date at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas. Feel Good Inc., indeed! Also, spoiler: She said yes. Afterwards, lead singer Damon Albarn — dressed in a hooded pink robe — blessed the union with a giant vuvuzela. Love is real,  » Read More

Prince’s Estate apparently refused to allow “Nothing Compares 2 U” to be used in Showtime’s documentary on Sinéad O’Connor, Nothing Compares, which premiered yesterday (September 30). As Billboard notes, the documentary instead uses an ambient score with scenes from the music video as the clip’s director John Maybury and O’Connor give commentary.  » Read More

Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Festival is taking place this weekend at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, California. Yesterday, on the fest’s opening night, the Pearl Jam frontman teamed up onstage with Stevie Nicks (who recently released a cover of Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth”) to duet on Nicks’  » Read More

CJ Camerieri — the horn player and bandmate to Bon Iver, Paul Simon, Sufjan Stevens, and the National — plans to release his second album as CARM in October. CARM II features the already-released lead single “More And More,” which is also a collab with co-writer Edie Brickell,  » Read More

In November, Hayden Dunham, aka PC Music collaborator Hyd, will release their debut album CLEARING. It features the Caroline Polachek-produced single “Afar,” the already-released “So Clear,” and now Hyd is back with “Breaking Ground,” which was co-written and produced by Finn Keane (EASYFUN) with additional production by A.G.  » Read More

In August, pop experimentalist Dawn Richard announced a full-length collaboration with Spencer Zahn. Their LP is called Pigments, and they’ve already shared the first four tracks, billed as the album’s first “movement.” Those were called “Coral,” “Sandstone” (one of our favorite tracks of the week),  » Read More

In addition to touring last year’s Home Video (one of Stereogum’s Best Albums Of 2021), cover-song queen Lucy Dacus has spent the last few months putting her own spin on classics like Cher’s “Believe” and the National’s “Bloodbuzz Ohio.”  » Read More

In November, Vancouver indie-rock crew Dumb will release their sophomore album Pray 4 Tomorrow. In the lead-up to the album, Dumb (one of our favorite new bands of 2019) shared a lead single, “Pull Me Up.” Today, they’re following that up with another album preview in the form of “Excuse Me?,”  » Read More