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After the Distillers unveiled their first new song in 15 years and reunited for a handful of 2018 dates, Brody Dalle and company will reconvene for a 2019 spring tour. The 12-date tour, which leans heavily on the eastern half of North America, begins May 19th in Columbus, Ohio and …

Rising British rapper Cadet was killed in an early Saturday morning car crash in central England, his family revealed. He was 28. The Associated Press reports that the rapper born Blaine Johnson was the passenger in a taxi en route to Keele University in Straffordshire, where Cadet had a late-night …

Just this week, Andrew Leahey & the Homestead played 10 gigs over five days aboard the annual Rock Boat cruise, including one on the main deck stage in the pounding rain. Such marathon schedules are par for the course for Leahey, a Virginia native, Nashville resident and occasional Rolling Stone …

Texas-based singer-songwriter Joshua Ray Walker imagines several different characters going about their lives in the new video for his song “Canyon.” The powerful, mostly acoustic tune appears on Walker’s debut album Wish You Were Here, released on January 25th. “I’m afraid of flying, afraid of falling, truth be told/I’m don’t …

LANY frontman Paul Jason Klein croons on the back of a moving car in the band’s breezy “Thick and Thin” video. Throughout the clip, the singer strikes various poses while belting the laid-back funk-pop tune. The car’s mysterious driver cruises down the California coastline next to an idyllic sunset, eventually …

The strings swirl, Sid Vicious descends a staircase and begins doing his best Chairman of the Board impression (even if it sounds a bit more like Dracula than Sinatra), and then everything implodes in his cover version of “My Way.” The bassist gave the song a punk-rock makeover for his …

Electronic experimentalist Yves Tumor offers a jarring examination of the police state in the new video for “Noid.” The track appears on Tumor’s acclaimed 2018 album, Safe In the Hands of Love. On “Noid,” Tumor’s lyrics grapple with police brutality, especially the effect it has on people who may not …

James Ingram, the multi-talented R&B artist who notched hits as both a singer and songwriter, died Tuesday, The New York Times reports. He was 66. Ingram’s friend and collaborator, Debbie Allen, confirmed the news on Twitter, writing, “I have lost my dearest friend and creative partner James Ingram to the …

Portishead singer Beth Gibbons’ concert with the Polish National Radio Symphony — a performance of Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3— will be the focus of a live album due out in March. Domino will release both an audio and video recording of HenrykGórecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), …

More than half a century after he joined Pink Floyd, David Gilmour will be auctioning off about 120 of the iconic guitars he played both with the band and on his solo releases. “Everything has got to go,” he jokes. “It’s the spring sale.” The instruments that will be on …