Record Store Day has revealed its list of limited edition vinyl, box sets, and other speciality releases that will be available as part of its 2025 edition taking place on Black Friday (November 28th). This year's edition promises exclusive releases from Bob Dylan, Prince, Talking Heads, Billie Eilish, King Gizzard, Tom Petty, Bad Brains, Led Zeppelin, Joni Mitchell, Bruno Mars, Spinal Tap, and more.
While reporting on the Eurovision Song Contest, the New Yorker 's Anthony Lane asked a man named Seppo, from the seven-hundred-strong Eurovision Fan Club of Norway, what he loved about Eurovision. 'Brotherhood of man,' he said - a slightly ambiguous answer, because that was the name of a British group that entered, and won, the contest in 1976. And the concept has a longer history in European music than that:
This October, BART Sound Tracks returns with a one-day music festival featuring some of the Bay Area's outstanding jazz and R&B talents. Sound Tracks Jazz Festival, presented in partnership with SFJAZZ, will be held on Saturday, Oct. 11, from 3pm to 6pm, in the North Berkeley Station parking lot. In addition to three unique acts - SFJAZZ High School All-Stars, B DeVeaux, and Sun Hop Fat - there will be food trucks, mocktails, and BART merch for sale.
The closing weekend of Neo Kaos Garden at Ibiza's colossal new venue, [UNVRS], was less a party and more a vibrant, collective odyssey into a world where art, music, and technology violently and joyously collided. The event, a partnership between the legendary party organisers elrow and the visionary artist Okuda San Miguel, was described by Okuda as a "digital circus," a 2.0 version of his psychedelic universe brought to life with geometric creatures, moving stages, and a 360-degree immersive spectacle.
A federal judge again threw out a lawsuit by a man who accused grunge rock band Nirvana of distributing child sexual abuse images by using a photograph of him as a naked, swimming baby on the cover of its breakthrough 1991 album Nevermind. US District Judge Fernando Olguin tossed out the lawsuit filed by plaintiff Spencer Elden for a second time after finding that no reasonable jury would consider the picture pornographic.
I told them I was not but they insisted that I was, even when I expressed my truth otherwise. I understand they concluded that I had been sex trafficked and involved in 'forced prostitution.' I did not agree with that conclusion. I was not trafficked. I did not engage in prostitution with him or others.
We start in "The Garden Spot," where a chorus of Rocky Mountain toads introduces a bright clarinet melody. No mere scene-setting or shorthand, field recordings are integral here and throughout the album; the instrumentation accompanies the sounds of nature rather than overpowering them. When Sage works his studio magic to sound like a full band, as on "Witch Grass," one pictures it jamming on the back porch on a starry night with the full participation of the surrounding creatures-at one point, the session pauses and
Growing up in Veracruz, Lucia Gutierrez Rebolloso was weaned on the percussive, celebratory sound of son jarocho, performing in her family's ensemble before she started grade school. She hasn't left her Mexican roots behind, but these days the Harlem-based singer, who records and performs under the single moniker Lucia, is one of the most sought after young artists in jazz.
Yo La Tengo and Jad Fair have announced a reissue of their rare 1998 collaborative LP Strange but True. Long out-of-print and unavailable to stream, the album will be released on vinyl, CD, and, for the first time, digital platforms. All versions are set to arrive December 12 via Joyful Noise and Bar/None. Listen to "Texas Man Abducted By Aliens for Outer Space Joyride" below.
But the masters rights for her first six albums - which means the actual recorded versions of her songs and music videos - belonged to her first label, Big Machine Records, as is standard in the music industry. This year, Swift finally struck a deal and reclaimed the master recordings from Shamrock Capitol, the private equity firm that acquired them in 2020.
Nine Inch Nails are extending the Peel It Back Tour into 2026. A new run of North American dates with Boys Noize kicks off in February in New Orleans and wraps more than 20 shows later in California the following month. Check out the itinerary below. Nine Inch Nails are fresh off their last stretch of tour dates, as well as the release of their Tron: Ares OST, ahead of the film's release on October 10.
Amy Poehler welcomed her good friend and fellow Saturday Night Live alum Kristen Wiig to her Good Hang podcast, and somehow the conversation turned to a scenario in which Wiig joins Metallica and makes them a "quieter" band. At one point during the episode, Poehler brought up Wiig's singing talent, and asked her if she was ever interested in pursuing music professionally. "I would love to do an album, a record," responded Wiig, "but I don't even know how to get started." She then turned straight into the camera, and added, "Can you weigh in on the comments on this? ... How do you get into the music business?"
As part of their very sexy effort, ZipHealth surveyed 1,003 Brits and Americans who have attended a music festival in the last five years, with 79% from the US and 21% hailing from the UK. Each participant was asked not only about past sexual experiences and general preferences, but also about concerns around their personal sexual health and interpersonal relationships. ZipHealth described the results as "raw, revealing, and, at times, a little grimy."
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