Watch Alice in Chains and Lil Nas X; stream Elton John, Angélique Kidjo, Brendan Benson, Brandy, Tom Morello and more.
Stream the iHeart Living Room Concert (available through Wednesday), and check online to hear Brandi Carlile, Melissa Etheridge, Shannon Lay, Charlie Hickey, Distant Cousins and more.
The Raconteurs’ surprise show Thursday night at Catch One was high-volume, high-velocity and thoroughly old-school. The all-star quartet’s first album in more than 10 years, “Help Us Stranger,” came out today.
Ahead of a new album planned for 2019, the Raconteurs release two singles, their first new music in 10 years.
As a follow-up to last year’s album “What Kind of World,” singer-songwriter Brendan Benson has embarked on a single-per-month project that he plans to wrap with a vinyl release later this year. Benson’s January effort, “Swimming,” is one of 28 songs on a free SXSW sampler assembled by HGTV and Paste and available through Noisetrade. […]
Quite a Saturday in store: ‣ Rufus Wainwright headlines the Orpheum Theatre behind the release of his seventh album, “Out of the Game.” That’s Wainwright’s video for the title track, featuring Helena Bonham Carter, above. ‣ Brendan Benson’s fifth album “What Kind of World” came out late last month, and he swings through for a […]
It’s twisted irony that Brendan Benson is more renowned for being co-founder of the Raconteurs than for his first two solo albums, 1996’s ill-fated “One Mississippi” and 2002’s “Lapalco,” both of which featured collaborations with Jason Falkner.” (If you have neither and spot one in the bargain bin, indulge.) The cult of Jack White, I […]
The only thing missing from the finest power-pop show of the year were a few hundred more fine power-pop fans. The Posies and Brendan Benson visited downtown Los Angeles last weekend, landing in Club Nokia when a clubhouse probably would have done, or the Troubadour. I think they call this an “overplay,” and on a […]
You know you’re in for a long music conversation when you meet somebody who remembers being more excited about hearing “Dream All Day” on the radio in 1993 than any damn grunge song. It was the first big hit by the Posies and remains a keystone in the collection of any self-respecting power-pop geek (a […]
Top 5 outings this weekend: ‣ Stones Throw Records’ Aloe Blacc and the Grand Scheme hit the Echoplex tonight. That’s Alan Algee’s video for “Femme Fatale,” above. ‣ Power-pop doesn’t get any better that the pairing of the Posies and Brendan Benson tonight at Club Nokia. ‣ Jens Lekman performs an RSVP-only gig at the […]
