It’s been five years since Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber announced his memoir Weird Era. Back in 2021, it was tipped for release in 2023 on MCD Books, but plans evidently changed. The good news is that the book is finally coming out this year, now with a different publisher. On Dec. 1, Farrar, Straus, And Giroux will release Weird Era: How Pitchfork Changed Music Forever.
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Billy Strings has postponed four shows after breaking a leg from a skateboarding accident. The bluegrass singer-songwriter says that before walking onstage for his encore in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday night, he did an impromptu celebratory skate trick backstage and fell, snapping his leg. He shared the news in an Instagram carousel of hospital photos (complete with X-rays), writing:
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Lil Wayne was everywhere in the late 2000s and early 2010s. On the heels of his historic mixtape run, a radio-saturating run of guest verses, and the multiplatinum success of Tha Carter III, the self-appointed Best Rapper Alive was a fixture of the biggest music industry events. But his stature isn’t what it used to be.
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David Anthony Burke — the 21-year-old alt-pop star known as D4vd — will be formally charged with first-degree murder in the killing of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, following his arrest in Los Angeles County last week. Last September, Hernandez’s decomposing body was discovered in an abandoned Tesla registered to Burke that had been parked in the Hollywood Hills for over a month.
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About a year ago, the estate of the late, great audio engineer, musician, and writer Steve Albini began auctioning off his belongings and memorabilia. That project remains ongoing. One new addition to the auction website, known as Steve Albini’s Closet, is a gold record Albini received for his work on Nirvana’s abrasive post-fame freakout In Utero.
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Grimes’ last album Miss Anthropocene arrived six years ago. Since then, she’s given birth to three children, released a handful of singles and demos, and apparently, nearly retired from music altogether to pursue AI. But now, it seems like Grimes is preparing herself for a big return to the music world: In a new feature today with Interview, the musician said she has a new album on the way called Psy Opera, which apparently won’t include any generative AI.
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It’s been about four months since Kevin Basko released music, so he’s past due for some new tunes. It was only back in January that the Philly musician better known as Rubber Band Gun released his last album ROAM BABY ROAM, a collaborative record with Joe Joesph; Basko also recently produced Highway To Hell, the…
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Last night marked the fourth iteration of the American Music Honors, the annual ceremony held by Monmouth University’s Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center For American Music. This year, the honorees were the Doors, Patti Smith, Dionne Warwick, the E Street Band, and Dr. Dre, some of whom and more also took part in some performances at the 700-capacity Pollack Theater.
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Kacey Musgraves was a last-minute addition to Coachella’s Weekend 2 lineup, conveniently leading up to next month’s release of her new album Middle Of Nowhere. She performed Saturday afternoon and opened her set with the album’s newly-released title track, one of a few live debuts she incorporated into the setlist: She also performed unreleased songs “Uncertain, TX” and “Back On The Wagon.”
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The Strokes had a powerful ending for their Coachella Weekend 2 set last night. On the main stage of the festival — just ahead of headliner Justin Bieber — the band closed with “Oblivius,” a song from 2016 that they hadn’t performed since that year. The screen behind them displayed a video montage accusing the CIA of overthrowing various foreign regimes throughout the past few decades, including Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran, Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, and more. The montage ended with some footage of US attacks on Iran and Israeli attacks on Gaza, particularly pointing out the universities that have been destroyed.
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