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Jeff Tweedy is making the rounds promoting his latest book, World Within A Song: Music That Changed My Life And Life That Changed My Music. In doing so, he has repeatedly pointed out how much his perspective on ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” has changed over the years.  » Read More

The Brooklyn R&B musician Yaya Bey has been making music for a while now, but her profile has really risen with her two most recent albums, 2020’s Madison Tapes and last year’s Remember Your North Star. Back in February, she shared the Exodus The North Star EP,  » Read More

Earlier this year, we named Shalom an Artist To Watch in the lead-up to the release of her debut album Sublimation, which came out in March via Saddle Creek Records. But Shalom has since split from the label, a situation that she has written about in the newsletter she’s been keeping up since the spring.  » Read More

Ben Kweller has suffered an inconceivable loss. In February of this year, the singer-songwriter’s 16-year-old son, Dorian Zev Kweller, was tragically killed in a car accident. Dorian had been a musician as well — he’d even released several songs under his middle name, ZEV. Kweller had been preparing to take his oldest on a summer tour,  » Read More

The Daytona Beach festival Welcome To Rockville is back and, as they say, bigger than ever. The rock-focused event will expand to five stages this year and include 150 bands on the lineup over four days.  » Read More

A few weeks ago, Bad Bunny released his new album Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana. It has 22 tracks, and it’s 81 minutes long. With that in mind, it’s hard to know why anyone would need more Bad Bunny songs right now,  » Read More

In July, PJ Harvey released a new album called I Inside The Old Year Dying. She’s already toured behind the album in Europe, but last night she had her first United States appearance in six years at Warsaw in Brooklyn. The event was billed as “an evening of poetry,  » Read More

You’ve seen the photo. On the cover of Led Zeppelin’s masterful blockbuster Led Zeppelin IV — released 52 years ago today — a framed image hangs on a wall. The photograph, often mistaken for a painting, depicts a man hunched over, carrying a bundle of wood on his back — a primitive stairway to heaven,  » Read More

Peggy Gou has teamed up with none other than Lenny Kravitz for a new single, “I Believe In Love Again,” which is out now. Kravitz is in the midst of his own album campaign, which kicked off last month with lead single “TK421.” “I Believe In Love Again”  » Read More