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Amanda Shires has announced her new album, Nobody’s Girl, is dropping September 26th via Ato Records. As a preview, the singer-songwriter has released lead single “A Way It Goes” and an accompanying music video. Stream it below.

Nobody’s Girl was produced by Lawrence Rothman (who also plays guitar on the record) and explores themes of “heartbreak and loss, resilience, self-discovery and empowerment,” according to a press release. “Nobody’s Girl is what came after the wreckage, the silence, the rebuilding,” Shires explained in a statement. “It’s about standing in the aftermath of a life you thought would last forever and realizing no one is coming to save you.”

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Recorded both in Nashville and Los Angeles, the album features contributions from Fred Eltringham, Julian Dorio, and Jay Bellerose on drums, Dominic Davis, Pino Palladino, and Jimbo Hart on bass, Peter Levin on keys,...

Ed Sheeran debuted a new song and music video ahead of the opening of F1: The Movie.

On Thursday, the singer released “Drive,” set to be featured on The F1: The Album. The film, starring Brad Pitt and directed by Joseph Kosinski, and companion album releases on June 27.

“Drive,” produced by John Mayer and Blake Slatkin, features Mayer on guitar alongside Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl on drums, bassist Pino Paladino and keyboardist Rami Jaffee, with additional keyboards and drum programming by Slatkin.

F1: The Album was produced and overseen by Atlantic Records west coast president Kevin Weaver, who also produced Barbie The Album, Twisters: The Album, The Greatest Showman, Suicide Squad, Daisy Jones & The Six and Birds Of Prey soundtracks, along with Atlantic Records’ evp and co-head of Pop/Rock A&r, Brandon Davis, and Atlantic Records’ svp A&r/marketing, Joseph Khoury.

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Ed Sheeran is back with “Drive” a new rock song featuring Dave Grohl on drums and John Mayer on guitar.

The new song is included on the soundtrack for F1, the new Formula 1 racing film starring Brad Pitt that arrives in theaters next Friday, June 27th. Atop a bluesy, ’70s-inspired riff, Sheeran offers a handful of racing and car-centric lyrics in the raspiest, grittiest vocal tone he can muster. “Ha-la-lay-la/ We can ride/ Four wheels you and I/ Gotta get out of here,” he sings in the anthemic chorus, later unleashing a soulful, escalating command after each refrain: “Petal down and driiiiiiiiive.”

“Drive” was produced by Blake Slatkin as well as Mayer. In addition to Mayer and Grohl playing on the track, Sheeran recruited fellow Foo Fighters member Rami Jaffee on keys and Pino Palladino on bass. Sheeran originally previewed the song via his Instagram Story last month, advertising it...

Earlier today, the Who announced that they were parting ways with drummer Zak Starkey after three decades. Rumors swirled that the group was unhappy with his performance last month when they played a pair of Teenage Cancer Trust charity shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall. In his first public statement since the group let him go, Starkey confirms this is indeed the case.

“I’m very proud of my near thirty years with The Who,” Starkey tells Rolling Stone in a written statement. “Filling the shoes of my Godfather,...

Elton John retired from touring in 2023, and last year, he experienced a serious health scare involving his vision. But for an artist with his work ethic and drive, slowing down was never really an option. In fact, his latest collaborative album, with country maverick Brandi Carlile, is a heartwarming burst of rejuvenation and reflection. Elton has always been one of music’s most avid team players — his last album was the all-star Lockdown Sessions (which included a tune with Carlile), his most recent mega-hit was a remix with Dua Lipa,...

Elton John and Brandi Carlile had a very excited audience grooving, laughing and cheering during their special one-night-only concert at the London Palladium on Wednesday night.

The gig, dubbed “An Evening With Elton John & Brandi Carlile,” mixed a showcase of songs featured on their highly anticipated collaborative album Who Believes in Angels? with some of their respective greatest hits after the duo sat down to discuss their friendship and more with interviewer Dan Levy.

In a wide-ranging conversation, John discussed among other things Lgbtqia+ rights, wanting to support younger artists (he name-checked such recent success stories as Chappell Roan, Charli Xcx, and Sabrina Carpenter), how he owns an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 pairs of sunglasses, how he hopes the joint album will help Carlile reach a broader global audience, how he struggled getting started on their album due to the Israel-Gaza situation and what words he wants on his gravestone.

“On my tombstone,...

Elton John will headline a special stadium concert May 9 at San Diego’s Petco Park to raise money for cancer research. Tickets for the Curebound Concert for Cures go on sale Friday, with ticket prices beginning at $300.

The Concert for Cures live music series, which began in 2022, has previously featured performances by Ed Sheeran, and Alicia Keys with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra. It’s raised more than $8.5 million, and will likely up that number dramatically with this Elton John concert.

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Elton John and Brandi Carlile announced their joint album Who Believes in Angels? this week and shared the title track along with it. Now, they’ve revealed the track’s pinball-themed music video.

Directed by David Lachapelle, the video finds John and Carlile as performers within a “Captain Fantastic”-themed pinball machine in an arcade. A young girl plays pinball as John and Carlile sing side by side, supported by backup dancers (including Tina Turner and Little Richard), neon glows, and a colorful, decked out set. While they’re never interrupted by a giant life-sized pinball flying around the room, it’s just as entertaining to watch Carlile and John swap fierce looks throughout the duet. Watch the video below.

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The video marks Lachapelle’s fifth video collaboration with John, having directed the visuals for “This Train Don’t Stop There Anymore,” “Original Sin,” “Answer...

Elton John and Brandi Carlile have unveiled a music video for their new single “Who Believes in Angels?” The pair tapped photographer David Lachapelle, John’s frequently collaborator, to direct the clip, which features the musicians performing on a giant pinball machine.

“It’s been a wonderful continuation of this journey with Elton over the last 20+ years — projects, videos, stage productions, photo shoots,” Lachapelle said in a statement. “I love these creative challenges we’ve explored and working on this duet with Brandi was really good fun and hard work,...

Elton John and Brandi Carlile have teamed up for a new album titled Who Believes in Angels? Ahead of its release on April 4th via Interscope Records, you can hear the title track below.

Who Believes in Angels? was co-written by John and Carlile with the assistance of the former’s longtime collaborator Bernie Taupin as well as Andrew Watt, who produced the album. Started from scratch in October 2023 at Los Angeles’ Sunset Sound Studios, the project was written and recorded in 20 days. It features contributions from Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, Pearl Jam’s Josh Klinghoffer, and bassist Pino Palladino.

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“This record was one of the toughest I’ve ever made, but it was also one of the greatest musical experiences of my life,” John said. “It has given me a place where I know I can move forward. Who Believes In Angels?...

Musical heroes and real-life besties Elton John and Brandi Carlile are taking their friendship to the studio. On Wednesday, John and Carlile announced that they’ll release Who Believes in Angels?, a collaborative album, on April 4, via Interscope Records. The duo also dropped the album’s title track.

“This record was one of the toughest I’ve ever made, but it was also one of the greatest musical experiences of my life,” John said in a press release. “It has given me a place where I know I can move forward.

Elton John and Brandi Carlile have teamed up for their new collaborative studio album, Who Believes In Angels?.

The album, featuring 10 tracks (below), is set for release on April 4 via Interscope Records. The pair “pushed each other out of their comfort zones to write and record an album completely from scratch in just 20 days,” per a press release. They also unveiled their new single, the eponymous song “Who Believes In Angels?,” on Wednesday.

“This record was one of the toughest I’ve ever made, but it was also one of the greatest musical experiences of my life,” John says of the album. “It has given me a place where I know I can move forward. Who Believes In Angels? feels like going into another era and I’m pushing the door open to come into the future. I have everything I’ve done behind me and it’s been brilliant,...

Jeymes Samuel can take the heat when it comes to commentary about his work. And he’s expecting plenty to follow the release of his latest film, The Book of Clarence, a biblical epic set for release on Jan. 12 about a man who, witnessing the rising popularity of Jesus the Messiah, attempts to cash in on that fame by performing fake miracles to get out of debt.

“People always see things the wrong way and they call it backlash,” says the director who also wrote and produced the film and its accompanying soundtrack, which arrives Friday along with the feature. “It’s conversation. I like the smoke. Let’s talk.”

Lakeith Stanfield stars in the lead role of Clarence, which reunites him with his The Harder They Fall co-star R J Cyler among a large ensemble cast that includes Omar Sy, Caleb McLaughlin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Anna Diop and James McAvoy.

(New York, New York – October 24, 2023) – Today, Grammy-award winning singer/songwriter/arranger/producer Yebba returns with the long-awaited beautifully-arranged new single bundle, ‘Waterfall (I Adore You),’ which had even hip-hop’s biggest star, Drake, requesting its release. The bundle also includes an alternate version featuring Sweata, all via RCA Records.

The 19-year-old church and New York-bred musician and R&b artist, producer & songwriter Sweata lends his soulful “boom bap infused” touch to the single, written by Yebba and co-penned with James Francies, Justin Tyson, Burniss Travis, Charles Myers and Malachi Mabson. This track is the first of new music to come since her live five-song EP, full of powerful recordings of songs from Yebba’s critically acclaimed, unbarred and honest debut album Dawn.

Her last EP saw her work with her band leader, James Francies on a cover of John Mayer’s “The Age of Worry.” With the critically lauded Mark Ronson producing the album,...

Three weeks from the release of his new album Jelly Road, guitarist/producer/songwriter Blake Mills has dropped his latest single “There Is No Now. ”

Accompanied by a music video, “There Is No Now” starts with folky-tinged guitar plucks before hitting a jazzier groove about halfway through the track, with Mills crooning about how “time unfolding is a trick.”

The song follows Jelly Road’s first single “Skeleton is Walking.” Mills has kept busy ahead of the release, playing with Joni Mitchell at her first ticketed concert in more than...

A sallow, elderly woman gets a Phoebe Bridgers makeover in the video for “Wasted,” a track off composer Rob Moose’s upcoming Inflorescence solo EP that features the singer-songwriter. Tattooed hands apply makeup, a “wasted” colorful necklace, and even a grill to the woman’s teeth as Bridgers sings, “Now I’m wasted, wastin’ all of my breath/Wasted again” over Moose’s sparkling, expanding strings.

“Rob is my son,” Bridgers said in a statement. “That’s an inside joke, but there is a deeper connection we share musically, which resembles being blood related.

Legendary singer-songwriter Bettye Lavette announced her upcoming new album, titled Lavette!, and released its lead single, “Plan B,” on Wednesday. The icon also shared dates for a U.S. summer tour, starting with Seattle, Washington on June 20.

Lavette! is produced by Steve Jordan for his label with Meegan Voss, Jay-Vee Records. Jordan also drums on the album and brought together a host of musicians for the project, featuring Pino Palladino on bass, Larry Campbell and Chris Bruce on guitars, and Leon Pendarvis on keyboard. “When I prepare a band for her,...

Beck was the musical guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday night, performing his new tearjerker “Thinking About You” with some help from Blake Mills and Pino Palladino.

With just the three guitarists on stage, Beck’s performance on Kimmel really put the emphasis on the sadness of his lyrics: “Wanna believe in something/ Don’t even have to be true/ Just thinking about you,” he sings, lines that we’ve speculated are about Beck’s ex-wife, with whom he recently split after 14 years together.

Beck has said before that, although he did initiate the divorce, the experience was “heartbreaking” for him. Considering this is one of the first times he’s played “Thinking About You” live in front of a crowd, it’s pretty impressive that he was able to keep his composure throughout the entire Kimmel bit. Maybe the sunglasses indoors were just a fashion statement, or maybe...

The Mountain Goats, Los Lobos, and Rickie Lee Jones are among the acts set to appear at the always intriguing Big Ears Festival, returning to Knoxville, Tennessee, from March 30 through April 2, 2023.

The 2023 festival — which is held at a variety of venues around Knoxville — will also feature performances from Andrew Bird, Iron and Wine, Devendra Banhart, the Weather Station, Kvin Morby, Bonny Light Horseman, and Son Lux. Famed banjo player Béla Fleck will also be on hand, as will jazz artists Charles Lloyd, Christian McBride, and William Parker.

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Erykah Badu, executive producer of the forthcoming documentary about late jazz and R&b trumpeter Roy Hargrove, wastes no time in elaborating on the influence her collaborator and high school classmate exerted on her life and career.

“It started with Roy,” says Badu, who first met Hargrove in 1985, when she was a freshman at Dallas’ Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. “Roy was the first person I met in high school: he in the music department and jazz band, me in dance right next door. We danced to that band’s versions of John Coltrane, Miles Davis. That helped me understand what jazz was, and how to interpret it. It was a subtle rebellion. Roy was already a legend as a sophomore — truth is,” she adds, “Roy was actually a legend starting in junior high.”

Hargrove would go on to legendary peaks in both R...

Norah Jones, Esperanza Spalding, and Angelique Kidjo’s Remain in Light are among the artists set to perform the 2022 Newport Jazz Festival, which takes place at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island July 29 through July 31.

The lineup also includes the Fearless Flyers, Terence Blanchard, Pj Morton, the Ron Carter Quartet, BadBadNotGood, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Lettuce, and Cory Wong, among many others.

Christian McBride, who serves as the Newport Jazz Artistic Director, will also play his annual Jawn Jam featuring Makaya McCraven, Chris Potter, Vijay Iyer, and Brandee Younger & Mike Stern.

Questlove, Black Thought, bass great Pino Palladino and more have partnered with pianist-producer Ray Angry and artist Katherine McMahon for a new rendition of the Christmas standard, “Toyland.”

“#Toyland” is part of Angry and McMahon’s ongoing Public Domain project, which has found the pair — and a revolving door of collaborators — creating new versions of old songs that are no longer beholden to copyright protections. The original “Toyland” was penned by Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough in 1903 for their holiday operetta Babes in Toyland; the new Public Domain version also features Marcus King,...

No one is more aware of what people think about John Mayer than John Mayer himself. The title of his eighth studio album acknowledges past accusations of sad-boy mopery. The muted pastels of the throwback cover art, complete with a simulation of the “Nice Price” sticker that Columbia Records used to slap on its bargain LPs, dares you to call him a purveyor of slick, dated studio-rock.

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Is this self-deprecating? A jab at critics? Either way, the self-consciousness of the packaging is notably absent from Mayer’s music itself. He...

Late last year, Margo Price released That’s How Rumors Get Started, where she steered her sound from outlaw country into full-on arena rock, inspired by Tom Petty and Fleetwood Mac. She recorded in L.A., putting together a band that included Benmont Tench of the Heartbreakers and bassist Pino Palladino. Price told Rolling Stone that she was nervous at first about working with those studio aces. “But once they all started playing,” she says, “it was one of the best ideas ever.”

While recording the album, producer Sturgill Simpson...

Los Angeles singer-songwriter Lawrence Rothman has teamed up with Lucinda Williams for a new song, “Decent Man.” The track will be featured on Rothman’s upcoming sophomore album, out January 29th, 2021, via Kro Records.

Over a video of giant decaying busts of the U.S. presidents, Rothman and Williams sing of a country in despair and ruin. “The New York Times says the country’s gone up for sale,” Rothman muses, while Williams observes on the chorus, “We’re just a lifeless empty Midwest mall, the aftermath of a hot head playing god.

The Who have dropped a new remix of “Beads on One String” from the upcoming deluxe edition of their 2019 album, Who, out October 30th.

Guitarist Pete Townshend crafted the remix — which was released under his Yaggerdang moniker — with the help of co-producer Myles Clarke. The remix was designed to hark back to Townshend’s original demo, using an old synth track crafted by co-writer Josh Hunsacker, swapping out the live drums for computer drums, and using an earlier vocal take from Roger Daltrey, which Townshend called “more heartfelt” in a statement.

Tears for Fears have shared a previously unreleased version of their song “Standing on the Corner of the Third World,” taken off of the upcoming Super Deluxe box set edition of their album Seeds of Love.

This Townhouse Live Jam Session version of the song was recorded in 1988, and is part of the half-hour of never-before-heard, live-in-the-studio performances featured on the new release of the album.

Recalling the sessions that led up to the nine-minute version of the track, Tears for Fears co-founder Roland Orzabal says: “We got Oleta in...

Tears for Fears have shared the previously unreleased “Townhouse live jam” version of their hit single “Woman in Chains,” taken from the band’s upcoming five-disc reissue for their 1989 album The Seeds of Love.

The unearthed spin on the track features gospel singer Oleta Adams, who also guested on the Seeds of Love version. During the London’s Townhouse studio jam session, the band played loose yet faithful renditions of the Seeds of Love tracks.

“We got Oleta in and we had Manu Katche on drums and Pino Palladino on bass and started playing live,...

Tears for Fears’ third album, 1989’s The Seeds of Love — which contained the hits “Sowing the Seeds of Love” and “Woman in Chains” — will be expanded into a five-disc box set this fall. The record was one of the band’s most ambitious studio outings, as it followed up their mega-selling Songs From the Big Chair — it reportedly cost more than £1 million to make.

The box set will feature the original album, remastered, singles and B-sides, alternate mixes, demos and outtakes. Twenty-two of the tracks are previously unreleased. There will...

Perfume Genius turned his remote performance of “On the Floor” for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon into a dance number.

In an empty venue, Perfume Genius — born Michael Hadreas — and his band gave a gorgeous live rendition of the single featuring the singer-songwriter passionately dancing to the track. Fallon also shared a web exclusive second performance from the Iowa-born star. Hadreas remained seated while belting out the slower “Jason” from the stage.

Hadreas released Set My Heart on Fire Immediately in May via Matador. It followed 2017’s No Shape...

Robbie Shakespeare — reggae artist extraordinaire, prolific bassist, and in-demand producer alongside his longtime collaborator Sly Dunbar — admits he was “humbled” upon learning he made Rolling Stone’s recent list of the 50 Greatest Bassists of All Time.

“Number 17, that’s good,” Shakespeare says of his ranking, “compared to all the bass players in the world.” When asked where he’d put himself on the list, the Sly and Robbie hitmaker jokes, “Number two.”

For Shakespeare, great bass playing is all about “the style.” “Most bass players, like drummers, have a style,...

Not too long ago, Margo Price was offered the chance to collaborate with a more famous artist. Some people around her thought it was a good idea, but Price wasn’t sure. “I love collaborating with people, but I’m not going to do it just because somebody’s famous,” she says. “I really have to admire their art.”

For Price, it was one of many key decisions she faced after the success of her first two albums, 2015’s Midwest Farmer’s Daughter and 2017’s All American Made. On those LPs,...

A pop savant whose vision keeps getting more all-encompassing as he keeps making records, Mike Hadreas (a.k.a. Perfume Genius) has delivered his most ambitious music yet on his fifth LP. Back at the dawn of the 2010s, he drew notice with music that had the muted, willful intensity of bedroom recordings, but he’s been operating on a much grander scale for a while now, swerving between genres with Prince-like ease. This time, he brings on seasoned session veterans like drummers Jim Keltner and Matt Chamberlain and bassist...

Singer-songwriter Yebba unveiled a swooning new song, “Distance,” which will appear on her upcoming debut album.

“Distance” has an airy vibe that flits between folk and soul as Yebba delivers a characteristically stunning vocal performance as she recounts the moments leading up to a relationship’s end. “I still get lost in the feeling,” she sings. “And I can’t imagine losing you/Oh, if your heart could find a new reason/For someone special to hold onto/I wonder if I would do.”

Yebba co-produced “Distance” with previous collaborator Mark Ronson,...

A month ago, on February 16th, a group of some of the greatest living blues musicians gathered at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York, to celebrate the music of the late, great B.B. King.

That seems like a lifetime ago now as we settle into a spring without any concerts or large gatherings — but you can go back to that all-star blues show tonight at 8 p.m. Est, when the Relix Channel will livestream the whole concert for free under the name The Thrill Is Gone: A Tribute to B.

Perfume Genius, a.k.a. Mike Hadreas, has dropped his new song “On the Floor.” The track is off the upcoming album Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, out May 15th via Matador Records.

Directed by Hadreas himself, the song’s video features Hadreas topless, smoking a cigar. He dances around a field of dirt, rolling around on the ground and doing crunches on a stack of tires. “I pace, I run my mouth/I pray and wait,” he sings over a synth-pop beat. “I cross out his name on the page.

What might emptiness sound like? That’s what Mike Hadreas, who records as Perfume Genius, sought out with producer Blake Mills on “Describe,” his latest single.

The song takes on a simple premise: the narrator is struggling in the midst of a tough episode, asking a loved one to help render the world for them. Much like the way Jeff Tweedy sought to sonically manifest his recurring migraines on Wilco’s A Ghost is Born, Perfume Genius manifests mental darkness on record, its sludge-rock low-end and languid tempo occupied by unfiltered chaos.

“Call me a bitch, then call me baby/you don’t know me, you don’t own me,” sings Margo Price in the chorus of “Stone Me,” her first new music in two years. The Nashville country and soul singer debuted the song with a live performance on Full Frontal With Samantha Bee.

Written by Price with husband and bandmate Jeremy Ivey, “Stone Me” finds Price shrugging off any slings and arrows that come her way. Attempt to sully her good name? Knock yourself out, she warns. “I won’t...

The first Who album in 13 years opens with a perfectly cynical Pete Townshend lyric: “I don’t care/I know you’re gonna hate this song.” But it’s kind of hard to hate something that feels so familiar. Roger Daltrey sings the lyric and the ones that follow, claiming the song isn’t “new” or “diverse,” with the same anger and conviction as the Who’s earliest music, recorded more than half a century ago, and the melody is almost identical to the opening “I don’t mind” of...

John Mayer's album rollout begins.

The "Love on the Weekend" singer released a four-song Ep on Friday, featuring four new tracks off his forthcoming full-length, The Search for Everything. "Wave One," as it's been titled, includes the album's lead single along with new, never-before-heard tracks "Moving On and Getting Over," "Changing" and "You're Gonna Live Forever in Me."

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According to a press release from Columbia Records, "Wave One" is the first of multiple four-track releases to come over the next few months, culminating with the full-length album release in the spring. An exact release date for the finished product has not yet been revealed.

"My heart's racing," Mayer confessed on Twitter. "These songs represent literally hundreds of hours of living inside of these little worlds. And more to come."

Mayer also revealed a portion of the album's credits, which belong...

For a while, it looked like D'Angelo was going to become R&B's Axl Rose. The parallels are easy to spot: Both individuals are massively talented perfectionists whose personal struggles threatened to drown long-awaited follow-ups to early successes. In Rose's case, that would be Chinese Democracy, a Guns N' Roses album so delayed it became a running joke ("We'll have democracy in China before we have Chinese Democracy," for example), and for D'Angelo, it was the follow-up to 2000's Voodoo, which was eventually released in Dec. 2014 as Black Messiah. On Monday, Black Messiah quickly earned two Grammy Awards - Best...

D‘Angelo is a morning person, of sorts. When he’s working in the studio, as was often the case in the 14-year interregnum between 2000’s Voodoo and 2014’s Black Messiah, he quits his all-night recording sessions just in time to greet each day’s sunrise. “I’m definitely on the night shift,” he says, drawing deep on one of a series of Newport cigarettes, not long after midnight in the midtown Manhattan studio where he recorded much of Black Messiah. He’s wearing a denim shirt unbuttoned over a white undershirt,...

In a season of stunning Saturday Night Live bookings like Chris Rock, Prince and Eddie Murphy, the biggest surprise yet was D'Angelo landing a musical guest spot, a performance that wasn't on anyone's radar just two months ago. The soul singer and his backing band the Vanguard hit the SNL stage to play a pair of tracks off their acclaimed Black Messiah.

While D'Angelo had been road-testing his Black Messiah songs in concert in recent years, SNL provided a chance to showcase the tracks to the greater public as well...

As promised, John Mayer is back in the studio with bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Steve Jordan. The John Mayer Trio reunited for their first televised performance in five years, in a Late Night With Seth Meyers episode that aired Thursday. Story: John Mayer Receives UCLA Head and Neck Surgery Department Honors After Meyers interviewed Lena Dunham on the late night talk show, the blues rock trio jammed on Jj Cale's "After Midnight" -- which was appropriate in light of the Saturday Night Live alum's new time slot -- with jazz legends Chick Corea, Manolo Madrena and Wallace Roney. Mayer also confirmed on Twitter that Corea

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It’s been a little over five years since the last release by Nine Inch Nails, but Hesitation Marks is well worth the wait. Now married, a father of two, and an Academy Award winning composer, Trent Reznor returns with not only a new album, but a new outlook on life. In between the release of 2008′s The Slip and now, Reznor found himself composing the score for David Fincher’s film The Social Network. During that time, he had announced that Nin was through touring and that he was stepping away from the music scene for a while. After scoring Tsn, he formed the band How To Destroy Angels with his wife Mariqueen Maandig, and collaborator Atticus Ross. The Htda project had Mariqueen at the forefront both on the album and via live shows and had a distinct sound that kept it separate from Nin.

Nine Inch Nails has revealed the track listing for “Hesitation Marks,” out Sept. 3. In addition to first single, “Came Back Haunted,” the rest of the titles hint at the sense of restless discontent (to put it mildly) the group is known for, including “The Eater of Dreams,” “Disappointed,” “All Time Low,” “Various Methods of Escape,” and “Black Noise.” Nine Inch Nails head Trent Reznor produced the album with his composing partner Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder. Among the guests are Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham, bassist Pino Palladino, and guitarist Adrian Belew, who dropped out of the band, according to Rolling...

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R&B charmer D’Angelo is apparently ready to come out of hiding and is yet again attempting to record his much anticipated third album. The artist has been in a New York studio recording with some of his longtime collaborators: hip-hop’s hottest drummer and full-time stickman for The Roots, Questlove; producer/engineer Russell Elevado (Nikka Costa, Blackalicious); and bassist Pino Palladino, who also plucks away for John Mayer Trio among numerous other projects.

Through the power of Questlove’s Twitter account, we became aware of the sessions: “Most people use midnight as a time to sleep. Others are working on their 11 year followup. This of course being hour number one.”

Based on Quest’s comment, it appears that D’Angelo has scrapped any previously record material for the long gestating project, which he has supposedly been working on off and on for the past decade...

The son of another famous drummer, Starkey has actually been working with the band since 1996.

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Zak Starkey performs during the Super Bowl Xliv halftime show

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Every classic-rock fan knows the titanic twosome that fronts the Who: singer Roger Daltrey and windmilling guitarist Pete Townshend. But as the only two original members left of the iconic British rock band, the duo front a group of backup players who are decidedly more anonymous than late madman drummer Keith Moon and steady-on bassist John Entwistle, who died in 2002 on the eve of one of the band's seemingly endless final tours.

One of the sidemen that stood out for many football fans watching the Super Bowl halftime extravaganza on Sunday was splashy drummer Zak Starkey, who kept the beat on a medley of the band's most beloved hits: "Pinball Wizard," "Baba O'Riley," "Who Are You?," "See Me,...

The Who's upcoming tour is expected to garner the legendary band a cool $100 million, but getting Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey to travel and perform together is turning into a logistical night- mare.

One insider said, "There is a lot of tension and fighting going on right now. Roger is furious with Pete. Pete has been writing all this new material and wants to perform the new stuff, but Roger wants to stick with 'My Generation,' 'Won't Get Fooled Again,' 'Pinball Wizard' and other classics."

Townshend and Daltrey...