Jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb, best known for backing Miles Davis on a string of iconic records, including 1959’s Kind of Blue, has died from lung cancer at age 91, NPR reports. Cobb, born in Washington D.C. in 1929, began his touring career with saxophonist Earl Bostic in 1950. This led …
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With the Eagles’ summer tour postponed, Joe Walsh will instead serve as host of his Old-Fashioned Rock & Roll Radio Showbeginning Saturday on a southern California public radio station. The hour-long weekly program, airing on 88.5 FM in the Los Angeles area, was conceived by the Eagles guitarist — a …
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In 2017, Roger Waters launched a lengthy tour, his first in four years, that came to a total of 156 shows — and, more important, incorporated more of his Pink Floyd work than ever before. Waters will commemorate those historic shows with a new concert film, Roger Waters: Us + …
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Beneath the veneer of his country-rock stylings, the early work of Steve Earle is shot through with moving descriptions of working-class life. His stirring debut album from 1986, Guitar Town, is haunted by characters hopelessly mired in small-town and rural America, barely scraping by in landscapes that are as bleak …
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To mark the 40th anniversary of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis‘ death, Mark Lanegan teamed up with Cold Cave for an icy rendition of “Isolation,” a track off of Joy Division’s final album, 1980’s Closer. Lanegan joined Cold Cave in a room for a live performance, singing side by side …
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Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, Alison Mosshart and more perform from quarantine on the latest installment of Third Man Records‘ Public Access web series. The episode features Moore playing a song titled “Mantra for D.A. Levy,” while Mosshart — vocalist for the Kills and Jack White’s the Dead Weather — opened …
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In this unprecedented time in global history, we’re all dealing with the stresses of the pandemic in different ways. Some of us are volunteering. Some of us are baking. Some of us are taking fistfuls of Klonopin and watching The Officein footy pajamas. And some of us are being filthily, …
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“My first album is about to drop soon,” actor and rapper Shameik Moore tells Rolling Stone in the latest installment of The First Time. “First times are continuing to happen. It’s a wonderful experience.” In an at-home interview, Moore discusses his collaborations with producer duo Ayo n’ Keyz and his …
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Billy Porter chatted with Trevor Noah onThe Daily Show this week about staying creative and politically engaged during the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic. “I am taking a break, I am learning what self-care is, I am learning what boundaries are, I am learning what balance is,” thePose actor said. …
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It is perhaps a testament to these anxious, extremely paranoid times that one of the most famous scientists in the country right now is not actually a credible scientist at all. Dr. Judy Mikovits is at the center of the documentary Plandemic,a melange of pseudoscience and baseless conspiracy theories related …
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