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This fall, Dolly Parton is releasing her rock album ROCKSTAR, which boasts an extremely stacked cast list that only a star of Parton’s caliber could round up. Case in point: Her cover of the Beatles’ “Let It Be,” which appears on the album, was recorded with the two surviving Beatles,  » Read More

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Bobby Eli, producer and lead guitarist of Philly studio band MFSB, has died. The news was confirmed by the Spinners’ official Instagram account — Eli famously played on recordings with the Spinners, among many other acts.  » Read More

Gary Young, Pavement’s original drummer, has died. The news was confirmed by his wife, Geri Bernstein Young. Young was 70.  » Read More

Career Woman, an LA band led by 19-year-old Melody Caudill, have an EP called Grapevine dropping in September. Its lead single, out today, is the scrappy and melodious “Passing.” It’s like a cheerier spin on early Snail Mail or some midpoint between mid-2010s greats Chumped and Allo Darlin. “I can’t get by without a drive alone at least once a week,”  » Read More

Yesterday, news broke that all four members of Talking Heads will reunite next month for a Q&A at the Toronto International Film Festival to coincide with the re-release and restoration of Jonathan Demme’s Stop Making Sense. It will be just the third time that the classic-era lineup has gotten together publicly since disbanding in acrimonious fashion,  » Read More

What happens when a teenager befriends an older man on the internet? This scenario is every parent’s nightmare and in What Comes Around, a psychological thriller that unspools inside a family drama, director Amy Redford eschews old tropes, allowing the narrative space to tread down unexpected paths even as the online relationship takes a sinister turn.  » Read More

San Diego-based singer/songwriter Dude Cervantes has played a variety of different roles over the years, including session musician, frontman, filmmaker, producer, and label owner. In 2017, he added to that creative spread with his full-length solo debut album, All By Myself, and later this year he’s set to share his sophomore effort, Dreamers.  » Read More

Modern Nature (the band led by Jack Cooper) are releasing a new album, No Fixed Point In Space, on September 29 via Bella Union. New they have shared its second single, “Cascade,” via a music video composed of one mainly static frame.  » Read More