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My Morning Jacket covered the Beatles’ “The Ballad Of John And Yoko” during their set at the Peach Music Festival in Scranton, PA on Saturday night. This isn’t the first time that Jim James and co. have covered the band (or members of it): James covered “The Inner Light”  » Read More

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour was in Cincinnati this weekend, and on Saturday she brought out two special guests during her surprise songs segment. The first was hometown boy Aaron Dessner — who has popped up a couple times on the tour already — and they performed evermore track “ivy”  » Read More

Rick Froberg — the leader of Drive By Jehu, Hot Snakes, Obits, and more — has died at 55. His longtime bandmate John Reis shared the news in an Instagram post, writing: “Rick passed away suddenly last night from natural causes. His art made life better. The only thing he loved more than art and rock n roll was his friends.  » Read More

Every few years, the Texas-based, Ohio-raised former Black Swans leader Jerry David DeCicca emerges with a new batch of songs constructed in his own idiosyncratic style. DeCicca tends to write rugged folk-rock tunes with a peculiar slant, singing them in a blunt post-Dylan bleat. It turns out he’s still an unmistakable presence even when working in a different sonic milieu.  » Read More

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music.  » Read More

Last we heard from electro-funk standouts Chromeo, Dave 1 and P-Thugg released 2021’s Date Night: Chromeo Live!, which featured tracks from a 2019 North America concert tour where Chromeo had performed live with a full band for the first time. More recently, Chromeo performed at Coachella in April and announced the Funk Yourself Tour for this fall.  » Read More

Three big dogs in the realm of improvisational experimental music recently got together to make an album. Guitar virtuoso Steve Gunn has already made a few records with drummer and keyboardist John Truscinski as the Gunn-Truscinski Duo. For the new LP Glass Band, the two of them worked with Bill Nace,  » Read More

UNKLE, the long-running and collaboration-heavy project from Mo’Wax label founder James Lavelle, will probably always be best-known for Psyence Fiction, the classic 1998 album that Lavelle and DJ Shadow recorded with guests like Thom Yorke, Mike D, and Richard Ashcroft. But Lavelle has kept UNKLE going without Shadow since then,  » Read More

Next week, Bad History Month are releasing the True Delusion EP, which the Philadelphia-based project introduced with “Over The Hills” a couple weeks back. Today, we’re getting another single, the fuzzy and squalling “Breakdown Lane.” “It’s about being really bummed out,” Sean Sprecher offers up. “Life has passed you by and day by day continues to leave you behind.  » Read More