Vampire Weekend, Father of the Bride Father of the Bride (which is out this Friday) is so zealously detailed and meticulously contoured that you easily sink into its inventions: the whirl of country picking, surf-guitar twang and classical interlude in “Harmony Hall”; the loopy hip-hop of “Sunflower” with its creeping-vocal …
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Quaker City Night Hawks present a thrilling three-minute mini-movie in their new video for the grooving “Suit in the Back.” The song appears on the Fort Worth, Texas, band’s latest album QCNH. Directed by Max Loeb and Kilby Rodell, the clip depicts a biker who falls in with a mysterious …
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Beach House have premiered a live concert film depicting their August 23, 2018 performance at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre. Produced by Pitchfork, the film, titled “Beach House Live at Kings Theatre,” spans an hour and 30 minutes and includes songs from the band’s entire catalogue, including last year’s album 7. In …
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Peter Frampton will release a new covers album, All Blues, on June 7th via UMe. The 10-track LP, credited to the Peter Frampton Band — featuring guitarist Adam Lester, keyboardist-guitarist Rob Arthur and drummer Dan Wojciechowski — includes guest spots from the Fabulous Thunderbirds’ Kim Wilson and guitarists Larry Carlton, …
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Stormzy is back with a fast-talking, politically-tinged new single, “Vossi Bop,” and an accompanying music video. The video, directed by Henry Scholfield and choreographed by Shay Latukolan, takes the rapper around his hometown of London, opening with alone Stormzy in the middle of an empty Westminster Bridge, the London Eye …
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Gloria Gaynor unveiled an uplifting new song, “Joy Comes In the Morning,” set to appear on her forthcoming gospel album, Testimony, out June 7th. The song boasts a simple soul groove with crackling organ and slick guitar bouncing over a sturdy beat of drum and bass. The arrangement puts Gaynor’s …
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In the first song on I Need A New War, Craig Finn takes up the sweep of an American life in a handful of lines — guy meets girl, maybe at a Dead show; she’s in recovery; they move to Montana. Things get “druggy” and fall apart; he pieces together …
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“I want my country to be free,” said Ileana Cabra Joglar, better known as iLe, with one hand on her chest. During a recent performance at El Museo del Barrio — New York City’s leading art museum for the Latin American diaspora, and the jewel of Spanish Harlem — she …
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From the Five Stairsteps to the Jackson 5, the Andrews Sisters to Haim, the Osborne Brothers to the Brothers Osborne, American pop history is rife with sibling groups whose close harmony channeled both genetic advantage and built-in backstory. After years of woodshedding in a once artist-friendly town — New York …
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Musicians on Call, the nonprofit organization that has for two decades delivered live performances and recorded music to the bedsides of patients in healthcare facilities across the country, will usher in its 20th anniversary with a special Nashville concert featuring headliner Blake Shelton. The show is set for Friday, May …
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