Lauren Isenberg, known to the world as Renforshort, had just come back home to Toronto from a tour in Europe a week before the coronavirus pandemic put her city on lockdown. “I went back to school for a week, and a lot of my close friends don’t go to my …
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The Sun Ra Arkestra will revisit some of the late jazz legend’s classic compositions on the outfit’s new album Swirling, their first studio LP in over 20 years. Under the direction of bandleader Marshall Allen, the Arkestra convened in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Soundworks to record new arrangements for Sun Ra standards …
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Metallica’s second go-round with the San Francisco Symphony will feature on an upcoming live album and concert film documenting the band’s S&M2 shows. Recorded September 6th and 8th, 2019, at San Francisco’s Chase Center — the first-ever concerts at that new arena — the gigs found Metallica collaborating with the …
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Yo La Tengo released a new ambient track, “James and Ira demonstrate mysticism and some confusion holds (Monday),” and launched their Bandcamp page. The nearly six-minute track, which cycles between a pair of droning chords, emerged from an loose collaboration between Ira Kaplan and James McNew in the band’s Hoboken, …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Choosing the right TV, audio gear, and media streamer solves most of your home theater system problems, but creates a big one: multiple remotes. Turning each component on, …
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Anita White has spent decades singing the blues as Lady A. Weeks after Grammy-winning country trio Lady Antebellum changed their name to Lady A to acknowledge the former name’s racial connotation, she worries she’s being erased. The black Seattle blues singer has been in talks with the band for weeks …
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Erasure have shared a second track, “Shot a Satellite,” from their upcoming album The Neon, out August 21st. The song, reminiscent of old Hi-NRG tunes with sci-fi synths and a disco beat, tells a space-age love story. “You shot a satellite/To catch a man alive/You spun a web of love …
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Ruston Kelly nods to his Nineties pop-punk influences in the new video for “Radio Cloud,” released on Wednesday. The song will appear on Kelly’s upcoming album Shape & Destroy, due August 28th via Rounder Records. Directed by Stephen Kinigopoulos and Alexa King, the clip features Kelly playing with a full …
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Hilary Swank stars as an astronaut dealing with family separation in the new teaser for Away, which hits Netflix on September 4th. “I miss you guys,” Swank’s character Emma Green says in the clip, holding a family photo that shows her husband (Josh Charles) and 15-year-old daughter (Talitha Bateman) before …
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Scoring over 500 movies and television shows, as well as over 100 classical works, film composer Ennio Morricone (who passed away at 91) wrote, orchestrated, and toured ceaselessly, refining and expanding his repertoire to accommodate different visions and the ever-shifting sounds of the day. Yet despite its eclecticism — or …
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