Jason Isbell, Justin Townes Earle Fallout Explained in New Book
When Jason Isbell released the song “When We Were Close” on his 2023 album “Weathervanes,” it created some interest, and stirred some controversy since the song is about Justin Townes Earle. In January, Rolling Stone music reporter Jonathan Bernstein released a book on the life of second generation singer/songwriter Justin Townes Earle called What Do […]
‘People say: be quiet and make your music’: avant-pop star Mary Ocher on her vociferous politics – and leaving Israel behind
Born in Russia and raised in Israel, Ocher rejected the IDF draft for a life in Germany. As she releases an album inspired by the Weimar period, she discusses nationalism, AI and the future of humanity ‘When I moved to Berlin 19 years ago, it felt like some kind of revival of the Weimar period,” […]
Joshua Burnside – It’s Not Going to be Okay
Many of the songs on Joshua Burnside’s “It’s Not Going to Be Okay” can disarm you or take your breath away from their very first lines. Burnside is the most consistently human and the most surprising of songwriters. Details spring out at you like spiders from the cracks between floorboards. Meteors and energy-efficient light bulbs, […]
Abandoning ourselves
Since living requires choosing, we will always feel regret about the paths not taken. But what matters is the future we forge – by Tasha Kleeman Read on Aeon Source: aeon.co
Natalie Wildgoose Shares Video for New Single ‘River Days’
The video for River Days — visuals by Nina Maria Moslechner — shares the same sun-bleached, grain-softened quality as Natalie Wildgoose’s music: images that already look like memory. The song itself is a midsummer diary entry, caught at its edges rather than its centre. Rural Hours arrives April 15th via state51. Source Natalie Wildgoose has […]
867-5309: number from 1980s hit song Jenny now routes callers to cancer support
Music’s most famous number is being repurposed to offer resources for patients and caregivers Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The telephone number immortalized in the enduring Tommy Tutone hit song 867-5309/Jenny has started connecting callers to a cancer support line – as one ad touting […]
Made of steel: how South Yorkshire became the British indie heartland
Galvanised by the Arctic Monkeys and guided by wise heads such as Richard Hawley and the Reverend, disused steel mills and former pit villages are now shaking to the hum of the Sherlocks, Milburn and more – and creating hyperlocal chart successes ● Bingley rockers Marmozets: ‘I learned to walk again’ ● The Yorkshire bands […]
Mike Vernon obituary
Producer, musician and record label executive who worked with artists such as John Mayall, Eric Clapton and Fleetwood Mac For the young generation that grew up in Britain in the 1940s and 50s, a country of grey skies and mostly grey music, to hear the voices of original African-American R&B artists such as Chuck Berry […]
New Documentary Series “The Called Us Outlaws” Premiers in Austin
The project has ballooned into a 10 part, 11-hour series. Consider it like the Ken Burns Country Music documentary that ran on PBS back in 2019, but dedicated to the Outlaw country movement. In the country music realm, you’re used to biopic films and documentaries not getting made despite long-running rumors and efforts to bring […]
The Taylor Swift effect: US vinyl sales top $1bn for the first time since 1983
Swift leads with 1.6m vinyl sales of The Life of a Showgirl in 2025 while Sabrina Carpenter and Kendrick Lamar round out the LP charts For the first time in over four decades, US vinyl sales have topped $1bn in annual revenue. Vinyl purchases reached $1.04bn in 2025, per a new report by the Recording […]