Sir Paul McCartney is plotting his return to rock. His new album Kisses On The Bottom features The Beatle crooning standards (and two brand new standard-ish tunes), backed by Diana Krall’s band. But his next album promises to be his most rocking in a whi

On “Deep Black Vanishing Train,” the penultimate track on Blues Funeral, the first album in nearly a decade from former Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan, the sandpaper-voiced singer wearily growls, “I’ve finally freed myself / But it’s been hard to

For the seventh consecutive year, ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live: After the Academy Awards”® will be televised LIVE from the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, immediately following “The 84th Academy Awards” hosted by Billy Crystal and the

Dave Grohl has quite the resume. In a little over two decades, he’s drummed for Scream, Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age and Them Crooked Vultures; played alongside Jack Black in Tenacious D; and, of course, led the Foo Fighters to enormous success. In h

We can start by pointing to one answer immediately: this music is staged, is consciously and intentionally synaesthesic, and uses space in a manner that is a-typical of other artists from this era. Take the beginning to ‘Black Dog’. The reason why I was

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