Jun 01, 2017 By Christopher Roberts Elton John

American Epic is a new PBS documentary series executive produced by Jack White, Robert Redford, and T Bone Burnett that premieres June 6.

Jun 01, 2017 By Christopher Roberts Kevin Morby

Kevin Morby released an excellent album, Singing Saw, just last year via Dead Oceans, but he’s already releasing a new one, City Music, on June 16 also via Dead Oceans.

Jun 01, 2017 By Christopher Roberts Arcade Fire

Arcade Fire seem on the verge of announcing their new album, based on all their activity in the last 24 hours. Yesterday they kind of released a disco-influenced new song, “Everything Now.”

Jun 01, 2017 By Christopher Roberts The War on Drugs

The War on Drugs recently released a brand new 11-minute long song, “Thinking of a Place,” for Record Store Day and announced a fall tour. Now they have announced their new album, A Deeper Understanding, and shared another song from it, “Holding On.”

May 31, 2017 By Christopher Roberts Fleetwood Mac

Luna split up in 2005 but reunited in 2015 for some shows. The band haven’t released a new album in 13 years, since 2004’s Rendezvous, although the band’s Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips (who are married) have released some albums as Dean & Britta and last year Phillips released her criminally under-heard debut solo album, Luck or Magic.

May 31, 2017 By Christopher Roberts Liam Gallagher

Say what you will about former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher, but he’s got an unmistakable, and simply great, rock ‘n’ roll voice.

May 31, 2017 By Christopher Roberts Beck

Last June Beck released a brand new song, “Wow,” and he plans to release an as yet to be titled new album sometime via Capitol (it was originally due out last October, but was pushed back to a TBA date).

May 31, 2017 By Laura Studarus Le Guess Who? 2017

Genre-blurring Dutch festival Le Guess Who? has announced the first curators for its 2017 edition.

May 31, 2017 By Christopher Roberts Mount Eerie

Mount Eerie, the project of Phil Elverum (who used to record as The Microphones), released an acclaimed new album, A Crow Looked At Me, back in March via Elverum’s own label, P.W. Elverum & Sun. The album was written after his wife, Geneviève Elverum (née Gosselin and also known as Geneviève Castrée), passed away in July 2016 after losing her fight with pancreatic cancer. Now Elverum has announced some new Mount Eerie tour dates.