*Music Industry Insight
Genres are once again effortlessly obliterated in the music of the impossible-to-classify Richmond, Va.-based Butcher Brown, whose fifth album in as many years, Letters From the Atlantic (Concord) is a…
Four Tet, Orbital, Paul Oakenfold, Mogwai and Deftones frontman Chino Moreno are among the artists crafting remixes for the aptly named Mixes of a Lost World, which recasts material from…
Steven Paul Smith was born in Omaha in 1969 and raised outside Dallas, moving to Portland, Oregon, as a teenager to live with his father—or perhaps more pointedly, to get…
TAKAAT began (and still operate) as the rhythm section to Mdou Moctar, the breakout Nigerien rock band named for its charismatic frontman. This puts Ahmoudou Madassane (guitar/vocals), bassist Mikey Coltun…
In a recap of this year’s Grammy Awards on his podcast, Indiecast, veteran music critic Steven Hyden critiqued Doechii’s performance as “very theater kid, in a way that a lot…
Kendrick Lamar and SZA‘s Grand National tour was already the first all-stadium hip-hop outing of all time before it had even played a note, and the spectacle lived up to…
After several days of uncharacteristic public drama, the Who have rehired drummer Zak Starkey, who was let go earlier this week following a 29-year-stint filling the late Keith Moon’s shoes.…
Mike Wolfe is making a life-changing move — six months after the death of his longtime friend and American Pickers co-star Frank Fritz. The famous antique hunter announced in an…
Travis Kelce has something to say to the husbands of Taylor Swift fans. Especially when it comes to Erin Andrews and Charissa Thompson’s partners, who couldn’t stop raving about Swift’s…
With a five-octave vocal range and a penchant for unfiltered storytelling, Gianna Ernst is no stranger to pushing boundaries. But with her latest release, “Dress,” the rising artist peels back…