Taylor Hill/Getty Images for Dayglo Presents Photographer Danny Clinch is helping to raise money for victims of the country’s recent natural disasters. The Transparent Clinch Gallery has just launched a new fundraiser that will benefit the Soulshine Fund, helping those in Florida and Western North Carolina who were impacted byRead More →
Capitol Records Spin Doctors have announced their first new album in over a decade. The “Two Princes” outfit will release a record called Face Full of Cake on April 11. It’s the follow-up to 2013’s If the River Was Whiskey. “We weren’t really thinking of it as a record,” drummer Aaron Comess says ofRead More →
Scott Dudelson/Getty Images R.E.M.’s Peter Buck is set to appear on a new music series, hosted by Screaming Trees/Mad Season drummer Barrett Martin. The series, Singing Earth, debuts Friday on the Vevo Music Network, with Buck set to appear in the second episode. Buck describes the show, which can beRead More →
CBS/Recording Academy After much speculation, the Grammys, scheduled for Feb. 2, will proceed as scheduled despite the deadly LA wildfires. In a letter sent out to Recording Academy members on Jan. 13, Academy executives confirmed that the awards show telecast on CBS will “proceed as planned.” However, the letter notes thatRead More →
Todd Owyoung/NBC Actor Michael Shannon and musician Jason Narducy will hit the road in February for a tour where they’ll be performing songs from R.E.M.’s 1985 album Fables of the Reconstruction, and folks just got a taste of what to expect. The musicians appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Wednesday, where they performedRead More →
CHRIS KLEPONIS/AFP via Getty Images Bono has added another honor to his list of achievements. The U2 frontman was at the White House Saturday, where he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, considered the nation’s highest civilian honor. According to the White House, the honor is given to people who’ve made “exemplary contributionsRead More →
Al Pereira/Getty Images R.E.M.’s Peter Buck has recorded a cover in celebration of one of his favorite music films of the 1960s. Buck revealed the news on R.E.M.’s Instagram account. He explained that after he appeared on the Revolutions Per Movie podcast, where he discussed the 1968 rock ‘n’ roll movieRead More →
Dave Hogan/Getty Images Kate Bush has posted her annual Christmas message to her website. In the piece, the “Running Up That Hill” artist shares that she went to see an exhibit of paintings by the French Impressionist Claude Monet, and draws a comparison between Monet’s paintings of smog-covered London and the current increasing useRead More →
Island Records U2 is giving fans a peek inside the studio with some never-before-seen footage of a recording session for their 2004 album, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. The video, shared on Instagram, shows the band working on the track “Original of the Species” at Air Studios Lyndhurst Hall in London.Read More →
FilmMagic/FilmMagic) The Who‘s Roger Daltrey, Pearl Jam‘s Eddie Vedder, Iggy Pop and Billy Idol were among the A-list talent who played a holiday party in New York on Friday. According to setlist.fm, the bash for Eldridge Industries took place at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester and also featured Gov’t Mule’sRead More →
