Kanye West, "The Life of Pablo" (GOOD Music/Def Jam) Source: Yahoo Music Link: Music Review: Kanye West evolves again on 'TLOP'

Livin’ on a High Note isn’t just the name of Mavis Staples’ new album, out February 19th; it’s also how she feels these days. While the singer acknowledges that she should be talking about retirement after a 60-year-plus musical career — both as a member of the legendary Staple Singers and as… Source: RollingStone Link: Mavis Staples' […]

Lucinda Williams opens her new album The Ghosts of Highway 20 LP with the dark, melancholic “Dust,” which she performed on Tuesday’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Williams’ scarred vocals are right at home with the tune about “a sadness so deep the sun seems black,” and as the five-minute meditation reaches its near-epic… Source: RollingStone Link: See Lucinda […]

In 2013, before “Happy” or “Get Lucky,” Pharrell Williams opened a text from an industry friend. The message led him to an amateur music video shot in the woods by four twentysomething college grads. It showed a woman dripping in oil and sunlight with a glorious mane of hair, singing over a… Source: RollingStone Link: How Pharrell […]

Escape From New York filmmaker John Carpenter recently revealed that he would release Lost Themes II, the follow-up to the 68-year-old director’s 2015 debut LP, this spring, and now Carpenter has shared the upcoming album’s opening track: the menacing synth symphony “Distant Dream.” Fans who pre-order Carpenter’s new LP receive an… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear John […]

“It’s uncharted territory as to how to present an electronic musician on late night television,” says Mason Klein, manager of Hot 100-topping producer Harry “Baauer” Rodrigues. It’s less than 24 hours before Baauer makes his network TV debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and they’re holed up in… Source: RollingStone Link: Baauer Is […]

Lera Lynn has shifted her shape before, transforming from the stunning Americana artist responsible for 2014’s mysteriously moody The Avenues to a track-mark dotted, equally mysterious bar singer on HBO’s second season of True Detective. And now, she’s doing it once more: on the lead single “Shape Shifter” from her… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Lera […]

Baauer has debuted the violent, surreal video for single “Day Ones” featuring rappers Leikeli47 and Novelist. The producer and DJ premiered the single on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last month. The video features two armies of men wearing American Revolutionary War uniforms marching through modern city streets. The men… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

Phish, My Morning Jacket and Ween will headline the fourth annual Lockn’ Festival, scheduled for August 25th-28th in Arrington, Virginia. Phish will make their only festival appearance of 2016 with a two-night, four-set slot at the jam-centric camping event. Ween, fresh off a trio of sold-out reunion shows, will perform on two… Source: RollingStone Link: Phish, My […]

Also, get reviews of the latest from Dion, Pete Astor and Lissie. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Music Reviews: Dion, Eliot Sumner, Pete Astor and Lissie