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Rilo Kiley appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform their song 2007 song “Silver Lining.” The indie band, led by Jenny Lewis, took the late-night show stage for an intimate performance that focused on the music rather than dramatic production, offering a tease of their current tour.

The group, who reunited earlier this year after breaking up in 2011, are releasing their greatest hits album, That’s How We Choose to Remember It, today. “Silver Lining” originally appeared on 2007’s Under the Blacklight, the band’s final studio LP, and is the...

Midway through Rilo Kiley’s reunion tour kickoff at the Fremont Theater in San Luis Obispo on Monday, Blake Sennett carefully scanned the Ga pit. “I was wondering what our fans would look like in 2025,” the singer-guitarist said. He motioned over to his bandmate, Jenny Lewis. “She’s right. You really look the fucking same.”

When Rilo Kiley last performed, George W. Bush was president, Michael Jackson was still alive, and a brand-new AMC show about a high school chemistry teacher turned crystal meth cook had premiered a few months earlier.

Following the thrilling announcement that Rilo Kiley will reunite this year for festival appearances, the indie legends dropped full tour dates — their first since 2008.

The reunited lineup of Jenny Lewis, Blake Sennett, Pierre De Reeder, and Jason Boesel will kick off their trek on May 5 at the Fremont Theatre in San Luis Obispo. They’ll hit their previously-announced festival appearances at Just Like Heaven (May 10) and Kilby Block Party (May 16), while snaking along the West Coast — with a stop at the stellar Red Rocks Amphiteatre in Morrison, Colorado. (That date...

It’s official: After weeks of online rumors and intense fan speculation, Rilo Kiley will reunite for Just Like Heaven 2025, playing their first show in nearly two decades. On Monday, Feb. 3, Kilby Block Party confirmed the band will also perform at its 2025 festival.

The indie legends will headline Just Like Heaven, which takes place in Los Angeles on May 10, alongside Vampire Weekend, TV on the Radio, Bloc Party, Empire of the Sun, and more (tickets go on sale on Friday). Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis appeared at the festival last year,...

Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” took home multiple awards at the 14th Music Supervisors Guild Awards, held March 3 at Los Angeles’ Wiltern Theatre. The event celebrates outstanding achievement in the craft of music supervision, acknowledging work across film, television, documentaries, advertising, trailers and video games.

George Drakoulias of “Barbie” won best music supervision for a film budgeted over $25 million and for best song written for and/or recorded for a film for “What Was I Made For?”, which was shared with Billie Eilish and Finneas.

Meanwhile, Frankie Pine won two awards for her contributions to the Prime Video series “Daisy Jones and the Six.” Alex Hackford received two awards for his work on Marvel’s “Spider-Man 2” video game.

The ceremony also featured a posthumous recognition of musician Robbie Robertson, who was given the Icon Award in celebration of his contributions to the music and film industries. Margo Price, Rocco DeLuca...

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie won big at the 14th annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards on Sunday, with the film taking home the awards for best music supervision for a film budgeted over $25 million, and best song written and/or recorded for a film.

George Drakoulias took home both of those awards, the latter being for “What Was I Made For?” performed by Billie Eilish and written by Eilish and Finneas O’Connell. The siblings took the stage to accept the award.

Other winners included Frankie Pine, who took home two awards for her work on Daisy Jones & the Six, and Alex Hackford, who also won two statues for his work on Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 video game.

Killers of the Flower Moon composer Robbie Robertson posthumously received the Icon Award, and he was given a tribute performance of his music by Margo Price, Rocco DeLuca and Johnny Sheppard. Allan Mason...

Daisy Jones & The Six star Sam Claflin arrived at his final audition to play fictional 1970s rock star Billy Dunne without, by his own admission, the strongest grasp on the type of musician he was expected to embody.

His future showrunners had already taken a shine to the dimpled British actor, as had music supervisor Frankie Pine and producer Hello Sunshine’s president Lauren Neustadter, but one last hurdle remained before he could land the male lead in Amazon’s hot adaptation of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel of the same name. He had to sing live for the project’s music producers, Blake Mills and Tony Berg. Pine gave Claflin a shot of moonshine to soothe his nerves. The actor entered the storied halls of Sound City Studios, the Van Nuys building where Mick Fleetwood first met Lindsey Buckingham, and proceeded to kind of blow it. “I had prepared Elton John’s ‘Your Song,...

Don’t let me down Emmys, and nominate the songs of “Daisy Jones.”

Variety has learned exclusively about Amazon Prime Video’s plans for which songs will be submitted for Primetime Emmy Awards consideration in the outstanding music and lyrics category from the acclaimed musical drama miniseries “Daisy Jones & the Six.” While there are 11 songs that are part of the tracklist of the fictional album “Aurora,” which was released by Amazon, three tracks will be submitted for the Television Academy — the hypnotic “Let Me Down Easy,” the powerfully passionate “Look at Us Now (Honeycomb),” and the dynamic and thematic showstopper “The River.”

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The original music and lyrics category is one of the few Creative Arts races where all series, regardless of genre submissions, compete against one another. Some of the most notable winners have included “Agatha All Along” from Marvel’s “WandaVision,...

The world and music of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s best-selling novel “Daisy Jones & The Six,” including album “Aurora,” has come to life. Fronted by band members Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin), “Daisy Jones & The Six” is now a TV series on Amazon Prime Video, but bringing the show to life meant that the songs that make the titular group a hit needed to actually be written.

Yes, that’s Claflin and Keough really singing in the show, but each song on the album “Aurora” has a stacked list of well-known songwriters.

All the songs in “Daisy Jones & The Six” were either written or co-written by Blake Mills, who also produced the album.

Co-writers include Marcus Mumford, Chris Weisman, Phoebe Bridgers, Jackson Browne, Z Berg, Jason Boesel, Matt Sweeney, Cass McCombs, Ali Tamposi, James Valentine, Barbara Gruska, Ethan Gruska, Stephony Smith, Jonathan Rice, Joe Keefe,...

For Marcus Mumford, getting involved with the original music for “Daisy Jones & the Six” was a matter of being in the right place at the right time.

The Mumford & Sons frontman was working at L.A.’s Sound City Studios on his solo record with multi-instrumentalist and producer Blake Mills — who co-wrote and executive produced all 25 songs heard in the Prime Video series, which chronicles the rise and fall of a ’70s rock band — when Mills asked if he wanted to help write a tune for the show.

“It was a slower day for my record and Blake was like, ‘Look, do you wanna try this thing for Daisy?'” Mumford tells Variety. “And I often think that… writing begets more writing. If you’re able to flex a similar muscle in a different way, then it can often help the writing you have in front of you as well.

“Aurora,” the once fictional album imagined by Taylor Jenkins Reid in her best-selling novel “Daisy Jones & the Six” has come to life with 11 of the 25 original songs written for Prime Video’s TV show adaptation. Blake Mills and Tony Berg reimagined songs Reid listed in the back of her book for “Aurora,” enlisting collaborators like Marcus Mumford, Phoebe Bridgers and more to write and record the album.

But in addition to the original Daisy Jones & the Six songs, classic 70s rock and roll hits like Carole King’s “I Feel the Earth Move” and The Byrds’ “Goin’ Back” set the scene for the collision of Daisy Jones and rock band The Six, who rocket to fame together, echoing the dynamic of Fleetwood Mac, Civil Wars and The Eagles to name a few.

Here are all the songs in “Daisy Jones & the Six”:

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Jenny Lewis reunited with Rilo Kiley guitarist Blake Sennett over the weekend at the Rock ‘N’ Rock Relief virtual benefit concert for a performance of “Let Me Back In.” It was their first time playing together since a one-off rendition of “Portions for Foxes” at Coachella in 2015. Inevitably, it raised hopes in the Rilo Kiley fan community that a reunion might finally be in the works.

Rilo Kiley have been completely inactive since their conclusion of their Under the Blacklight tour in 2008. It was an unfortunate time to pull the...