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Tim Heidecker and Weyes Blood have released “Oh How We Drift Away,” the album closer from their upcoming collaborative project, Fear of Death.

Following the singles “Property,” “Fear of Death” and “Nothing,” “Oh How We Drift Away” fits into the rest of the album’s Bernie Taupin/Elton John writing experiment; Heidecker penned the lyrics to the track and Natalie Mering (a.k.a. Weyes Blood) set them to music. Over swooning violin and piano, Mering sings of a fading friendship: “You can come knocking/I won’t be home.

With a title like “Oh Jerome, No,” the series was always building to the point where its title character turned that phrase on himself. When it happens in the opening segment of the two-part finale, Jerome (Mamoudou Athie) laments his inability to follow through on a New Year’s Eve idea.

Over eight episodes of Alex Karpovsky and Teddy Blanks’ series about one man’s emotional highs and lows, that tussle between expectations and reality happens a lot. “It was important for us to have a character that gets into all sorts of wacky and absurd and sometimes full-on ridiculous situations, but ultimately it’s coming from a person that’s always relatable,” Karpovsky told IndieWire. “You don’t want to stretch it too far where we feel like this person exists in a completely sci-fi universe. The fact that the show is so Pov-driven and driven, we can really...

“I’ve been telling people for 40 years that ‘I will survive,’” Gloria Gaynor tells Rolling Stone Country backstage at an intimate album release event at the Analog lounge in Nashville’s Hutton Hotel. “With this record, what I’m hoping to accomplish is to show people how to survive. How I survived all the difficulties that I’ve had in my life and how they can survive as well.”

Testimony, the record the 75-year-old Grammy-winning vocalist is referring to, is her just-released gospel album, a joyous and revelatory collection of...

Rising singer-songwriter Adeline revels in a lovestruck fantasy on her new song “Top Down.”

The track boasts a stripped-down arrangement that finds Adeline layering plucky guitars and atmospheric synths over a soul-shaking bass groove. The song places Adeline’s indelible vocals at the forefront as she crafts harmonies and spins lyrics that expertly capture the euphoric waves of a new love.

“Top Down” marks Adeline’s first new song since she released her self-titled debut album last year. Prior to embarking on her solo career Adeline served as the lead...

Randy Rogers Band chronicle a vacation breakup in “We Never Made It to Mexico,” Rhiannon Giddens reaches across generations and cultures in the gripping “Ten Thousand Voices” and Pink gets an assist from Chris Stapleton in “Love Me Anyway” in this week’s batch of must-hear songs.

Davisson Brothers Band, “Unbreak You”

The chorus may nod to Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy,” but “Unbreak You” takes the bulk of its cues from modern country radio, mixing the Davisson Brothers Band’s West Virginia twang with rocked-up grit and thickly stacked harmonies.

Natalie Prass unleashed a smooth, funky version of “Short Court Style” during Wednesday’s The Late Late Show With James Corden. The singer croon about soulful love over a taut R&B groove. “Oh, you spin me ’round, ’round and ’round/Had ups and downs/No, but I can’t be without my love that I have found,” she sang, as her band’s electric guitar stabs and drum fills grew increasingly complex. She even incorporated some enthusiastic twirls and played a whirring synthesizer solo during the instrumental section.

“Short...

Kacey Musgraves makes crossover look easier. Two-thirds of the way into her January 26th show at New York’s Beacon Theatre, the second of two sold-out nights at the venue, she gathered together her men-in-black touring band at the front of the stage. The unplugged segment has become almost de rigueur for pop acts, but Musgraves added a revealing twist. Halfway through a mountain-stream-clear version of “Love Is a Wild Thing,” her band switched back over to their electric instruments — all while they continued playing the song. Before anyone knew it,...

Kacey Musgraves tackled a disco classic on Wednesday night with the help of tourmate Natalie Prass, who came out to duet on a propulsive version of Gloria Gaynor’s empowerment anthem “I Will Survive.” The performance took place during Musgraves’ Oh, What a World Tour opening show at Murat Theatre in Indianapolis, Indiana.

A brief video shared on Twitter shows Musgraves and Prass launching into the song’s immortal chorus, with Musgraves’ band handling the brisk groove. Rather than swap lines, Musgraves and Prass opt for a call-and-response approach, with...

Singer-songwriter Natalie Prass covered Dionne Warwick’s 1979 ballad “Deja Vu” for Spotify’s Single series. In a recent episode of the podcast Under Cover, she explained the breezy R&B classic was a childhood favorite that had a profound affect on her future career as a singer.

Growing up in Richmond, Virginia, Prass’ father gave her the Warwick record on her fourteenth birthday. She was immediately struck by the catchiness of Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s songwriting and particularly, the opening lick and groove of “Deja Vu.” Bacharach once...

Natalie Prass dances among the visages of dead presidents in the video for “The Fire,” a song off her new album, The Future and the Past. As holds an axe in front of George Washington and sits on Andrew Jackson’s shoulder, she sings a pop song about sidestepping safety in a relationship and going right into her lover’s fire. The video becomes more and more psychedelic as it goes on, with kaleidoscopic vignettes and what looks like the northern lights appearing behind our forefathers – and it ends with an even more surrealistic scene.

Kacey Musgraves performs a solo acoustic version of her song “Slow Burn” in a new video, filmed at a YouTube studio in Tokyo, Japan.

The first few measures of “Slow Burn” — the opening track from Musgraves’ 2018 album Golden Hour — feel weightless, as if suspended in orbit, until the drums kick in during the second verse. Her performance in the video, delivered without the aid of backing musicians, maintains that dreamy feel for the duration, a feeling heightened by the pink-hued flora surrounding her. This rendition stems from the same session...

With “Conan” set to switch to a half-hour format beginning in January 2019, the TBS show is doing away with regular musical performances to focus more on comedy and what host Conan O’Brien calls a “leaner” late-night program.

With that change, producer and music booker Roey Hershkovitz will depart the show, leaving the door open for consulting work on the occasional special music episode and potential music content to appear on TeamCoco.com’s digital platforms.

Hershkovitz has been with the “Conan” franchise for nearly 20 years. Beginning as an intern in 1999, he was hired as music coordinator at NBC’s “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” in May 2000 and moved with the show to TBS in 2010. Hershkovitz, who has also co-produced episodes of NBC’s “The Office,” was elevated to Music Booker in 2017 after “Conan” veteran Jim Pitt left for ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Recent music bookings on “Conan” include Neko Case,...

Kacey Musgraves offers a stripped-down, acoustic take on her song “Love Is a Wild Thing,” one of several standout tracks from her 2018 album Golden Hour, in a new video.

Filmed at a YouTube space in Tokyo, Japan and bathed in shades of pink, the performance highlights the elegance of Musgraves’ melody and lyrics for “Love Is a Wild Thing” — a meditation on the elusive, mysterious nature of love. This solo acoustic version doesn’t differ wildly from the studio recording on Golden Hour, omitting the swirling atmospherics, brushed drums and...

Kacey Musgraves has made the late night television rounds in support of her most recent album Golden Hour, keeping fans on their toes by switching up songs with each appearance. On Tuesday, The Late Late Show with James Corden aired her performance of the album’s title track, recorded during her May visit to the show.

Donning an acoustic guitar with her full band backing her, Musgraves offers a relaxed, assured take on the song, which likens a romantic partner to that rare sliver of evening sunlight that turns all it touches to gold.

Just days after wrapping up her tour dates opening up for Harry Styles and releasing the glitzy video to her latest single, “High Horse,” Kacey Musgraves has announced the North American leg of her headlining Oh, What a World Tour.

The upcoming run of dates, which begin January 9th, 2019, in Indianapolis, will feature a wide range of opening acts, from indie rockers Natalie Prass and Soccer Mommy to Nashville-based pop-leaning artists Liza Anne and Sinclair.

“These days, genre lines are so blurred,” Musgraves told Rolling Stone Country earlier this year,...

The independent label sector is the wellspring of creativity in the music industry and fights hard for its market share, but for all that, it’s never really been big on celebrating itself. The annual Libera Awards, launched seven years ago by the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) trade group, are a rare exception to that rule, and they’ve become a sort of cross between a low-key Grammys and a high-class party for the indie community — a place where you see people dressed up who you ordinarily never see dressed up except at a wedding or in a year when one of their label’s artists has a Grammy nomination. The event, presented by SoundExchange in partnership with BuzzAngle, was held Thursday night at the Best Buy Theater in New York’s Times Square, capped A2IM’s Indie Week conference and confab.

The crowd was treated...

Singer/songwriter Natalie Prass has been serving up some delightful covers ahead of her self-titled Ep release next week, including her version of Anita Baker's "Caught Up in the Rapture" and an upcoming Grimes joint. Her latest is a funky, upbeat take on Simon & Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence." It's the perfect version to play once you've passed depressed and looped back around to giddy and jittery again. Just right for dancing on the sidewalk in a hospital gown, or channeling Drake's "Hotline Bling" dance as your house burns down.