’90s radio staples Counting Crows have been getting a whole lot of flowers lately; just think of the mutual appreciation that MJ Lenderman and Crows frontman Adam Duritz have for one another. Well, now the band is about to get more. HBO is premiering its new Counting Crows documentary tonight, and Azure Ray’s Maria Taylor…
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Despite no musical performance, Tuesday night’s episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers was extremely music-adjacent. For one thing, Meyers welcomed Sabrina Carpenter, who has become a regular at his old show Saturday Night Live, for his latest Day Drinking segment.
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Robber Robber, one of the more exciting young indie bands on the rise, have decided to close out the year with an Elvis Presley cover. The Burlington combo announced their signing to Fire Talk with last month’s impressive “Talkback.” Now they’ve shared a recording of the King’s 1969 chart-topper “Suspicious Minds.” The Robber Robber version…
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Chris Martin is perhaps best known for the unpleasant surprise he sprung upon a couple who were illicitly attending a Coldplay concert together, but he loves gracing lovebirds with more welcome surprises. Back in 2022, Martin performed an engaged couple’s wedding dance song, 2014’s “A Sky Full Of Stars,” upon encountering them at a pub in Bath. Now he’s gone one step further by stunning newlyweds at their actual wedding last weekend.
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Streaming is about to weigh even more heavily on the Billboard album charts. The magazine announced Tuesday that it’s changing its formula for factoring in streams, reducing the number of track streams needed to equate to one album sale. The changes are designed to “better reflect an increase in streaming revenue and changing consumer behaviors,” an article announcing the changes explains.
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Young Thug and Mariah The Scientist are engaged. The Atlanta rapper proposed to the R&B singer onstage at State Farm Arena Tuesday night during his Hometown Hero benefit concert, and as video of the big moment reveals, she said yes.
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For the past decade and a half, the producer Ted Feighan (formerly of LA, now based in Cleveland) has been releasing instrumental records under the name Monster Rally; we premiered his single “Sunflower” way back in 2014. Today, Feighan announces plans to follow his 2022 album Botanica Dream with a new one called Echoes Of…
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The hard-touring Texan country-rock singer-songwriter Joe Ely has died. According to a Facebook statement from his family, Ely passed away from complications of Lewy Body Dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and pneumonia on Monday. At the time of his death. Ely was surrounded by family, at home in Taos, New Mexico. Ely was 78.
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Did you rewatch This Is Spinal Tap last night? I did. It just seemed like the thing to do. Spinal Tap director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele were found murdered on Sunday. Their son Nick has been arrested, and Donald Trump has done his best to make it all about him. It’s all so sad and fucked up, so it was watch Spinal Tap or doomscroll. I mostly stuck with the former. (Reiner’s Spinal Tap collaborators posted tributes.) The members of Yo La Tengo couldn’t rewatch Spinal Tap because they’re just starting their annual Hanukkah residency at New York’s Bowery Ballroom, but they did the next best thing and covered a song from the movie.
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