James Mercer has found time to return to the Shins, and his revered indie band will release a new album title Heartworms on March 10. It’ll be the fifth studio album under the Shins moniker (as Mercer has released records with various projects including Broken Bells and others). In addition to the album announcement, the […]
On Christmas, U2 released an intriguing video featuring the band members decorating a ‘Joshua Tree’ and some rather specific words from front man Bono: “Happy Christmas, everyone. Next year’s gonna be a big year for the U2 group. We have Songs of Experience coming. And to honor the 30th anniversary of Joshua Tree, we have […]
As previously detailed, Ryan Adams will release a new album called Prisoner on February 17. He recently previewed it with a song called “Do You Still Love Me?” and late Thursday the singer/songwriter shared another song, the affecting and resonant “To Be Without You”: Adams is quite proud of the material on Prisoner, a record […]
Trent Reznor has been hard at work on new Nine Inch Nails music, and it’ll be released on Friday under the EP title Not the Actual Events. Early Thursday, NiN premiered a song from the collection of tunes, its first since 2013’s Hesitation Marks album. Titled “Burning Bright (Field on Fire),” the new song is […]
Guitar icon Steve Hackett, known for his significant work with Genesis, will release a new solo album on March 24. Titled The Night Siren, the LP (which features the alluring album artwork seen above) is being billed as “a wake-up call…the warning of a siren sounding in this era of strife and division.” In Hackett’s […]
Metallica‘s in an all-out assault in promotion of its new album, Hardwired…To Self-Destruct, and that media blitz brought the band to Jimmy Kimmel Live on Wednesday night. There, they slammed through a pummeling version of the track “Atlas, Rise!” — one of the new record’s most dynamic cuts: ‘Tallica also performed the classic cut “For […]
On April 7, Deep Purple will return with a new album titled InFinite. It’ll be the legendary band’s first new record since 2013’s Now What?!. The band also premiered a new single titled “Time for Bedlam” as an introduction to the new album: InFinite was produced by Bob Ezrin, who also worked with Deep Purple on […]
Northern California-based alt/rock band AFI will return on January 20 with a new album titled AFI (The Blood Album), released via Concord Records. The LP will be the follow-up to 2013’s Burials and 10th full-length overall. Recently, the band premiered a music video for the single “White Offerings” as a means of previewing their new […]
The ceaseless Neil Young is back again — his new album, Peace Trail, was released on Friday. A mostly stripped-down affair, the sparse record is the follow-up to Earth, an ambitious project Young also released in 2016. Stream Peace Trail below, via Spotify:
It’s been nearly two decades since the Jesus and Mary Chain released a new record (1998’s Munki), but the duo announced on Thursday that a new album, Damage and Joy, will be out on March 24 via Creation Records. The band also hinted that the premiere of a song called “Amputation” will take place on […]