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Five decades have gone by since Patti Smith released her 1975 debut album Horses. The landmark 1975 studio project featured some of rock’s most classic cuts, including the opener “Gloria: In Excelsis Deo,” “Redondo Beach,” and “Break It Up.” This fall, Smith is set to embark on a 50th anniversary tour across the globe to celebrate her Seventies masterpiece. Shortly after kicking off the worldwide trek, Smith will drop...

Patti Smith is set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her pioneering debut album, Horses, with a new reissue featuring demos, outtakes, and other rarities. The expanded edition is out on October 10th via Legacy Recordings, and pre-orders are now available.

Available in either 2xLP or 2xCD packaging, the reissue features the original John Cale-produced album newly remastered directly from the original 1/4-inch master tapes. It also includes Smith’s 1975 RCA demo tape alongside four previously unreleased songs: “Distant Fingers,” “The Hunter Gets Captured by The Game,” and “Snowball.” Stream the latter track below.

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Accompanied by longtime guitarist and co-writer Lenny Kaye, Smith reminisces on “Snowball” with lyrics like,...

Aaron Brookner and Rodrigo Areias’s Nova ’78 centers around the Nova Convention, a late ’70s avant-garde extravaganza that took place at NYC’s now defunct Entermedia Theater (Second Avenue and 12th Street) in honor of William S. Burroughs’s return to the U.S. after living more than 20 years abroad. It was also a great excuse to gather a who’s who roster of counterculture icons to perform in the presence of the postmodern wordsmith who’d profoundly impacted them all. That would include Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye, Laurie Anderson and Julia Heyward, Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, Brion Gysin, Timothy Leary, Merce […]

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Jake Sumner’s Ron Delsener Presents star, wearing a 99 Elvis Costello Armed Funk Tour badge from 1979 (presented to him by music producer/99 Records founder Ed Bahlman) with Anne-Katrin Titze at the Quad Cinema Photo: Ed Bahlman

Jake Sumner’s stellar Ron Delsener Presents (a highlight of the 2023 edition of the Tribeca Festival) on the great impresario features insightful remembrances from Billy Joel (Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin’s Billy Joel: And So It Goes was the Opening Night selection of this year’s Tribeca Festival), Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Steven Van Zandt, Cher, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley (from Kiss), Jon Bon Jovi, Bette Midler, Verdine White, Jimmy Buffett, Lorne Michaels, Sparkie Martin (promoter), Lenny Kaye with Patti Smith and more.

Jake Sumner with Ed Bahlman and Anne-Katrin Titze on The Clash at The Palladium: “David Johansen and Andy Warhol and obviously Ron and of course The Clash,...

It’s taken a few months, since he lives in the Netherlands, but Eric Andersen finally found time to watch A Complete Unknown. And the troubadour legend, who haunted those same Village clubs during that same time, was…a bit underwhelmed.

“It seemed a little sugarcoated,” he says. ”It was a little two-dimensional. But I found it quite amusing and quite entertaining. I was looking at it more like a cinematic situation than something I knew. I was watching a movie. So, I enjoyed it from that standpoint.”

Then again,...

For music-loving New Yorkers who grew up in the pre-digital age, the title of Jake Sumner’s first feature-length film needs no explanation. Beginning in the 1960s, countless newspaper ads announcing the rock and pop concerts that were reshaping showbiz began with three words: “Ron Delsener Presents.”

What Sumner presents is an exuberant look at some of those shows and artists, and a chance to spend quality time with Delsener himself, who turns 89 this year. He officially retired in 2022, but, at least as of the 2023 completion date of the documentary, was still spry, in constant motion, and making deals. Like the impresario Sol Hurok, who was his inspiration — and whom he met, as it turned out, just in the nick of time — Delsener sees no reason to stop doing what he loves.

Delsener has done his share of networking and schmoozing, and his business acumen would ultimately have global reverberations.

Lotti Golden wasn’t about to miss her big chance. At the age of 17, while still a senior at Canarsie High School in Brooklyn, she’d landed a staff songwriting job with Saturday Music, a song publisher in midtown Manhattan. But Golden had bigger ambitions. So, when her boss, Bob Crewe, stepped into a crowded elevator with her one day at work, she knew she had to pitch him on making a record.

“I had never met him before. I’d never seen him around the office. He was elusive,...

"He was the cornerstone. The beginning." Abramorama has unveiled an official trailer for Ron Delsener Presents, a documentary film from filmmaker Jake Sumner about one of NYC's famous concert gurus. This premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival and finally opens in theaters later this month. For generations of New Yorkers, perhaps no three words are as intermingled with the most famous New York concerts as "Ron Delsener Presents' – the words that preceded the name of every major act that was playing New York in advertisements across the city. The film Ron Delsener Presents is equal parts all-access pass to New York's greatest gigs, as told by the legendary concert promoter and impresario Ron Delsener, and a portrait of a relentless music business pioneer who can't stop Hustling. Even today. Featuring Billy Joel, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt, Jon Bon Jovi, Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Gene Simmons, Lenny Kaye,...

Patti Smith’s forthcoming memoir Bread of Angels took a decade to write, and captures “the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime,” according to the singer-songwriter.

In a statement, Smith said that with her new book she hopes “that people will find something they need.” According to a summary of the book, this will be the artist’s “most intimate” memoir yet and follows Smith through her teenage years, journey writing poetry and recording her iconic work such as Horses and Easter, and marriage to Fred “Sonic” Smith as they...

If anyone doubted the ongoing relevance of Patti Smith’s work, that answer arrived at the next-to-last moment at “People Have the Power: A Celebration of Patti Smith,” a boldface-name-heavy tribute concert Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall. Over the course of two-and-a-half hours, a caravan of singers, musician and actors — some associated with her, some not necessarily — sang and read Smith’s words, an ongoing testament to the still hypnotic grip of her songs and poems.

The odds that Smith herself would participate were pretty high; after all, she was...

R.E.M. just keep reuniting. Thursday night, Feb. 27, the band that has repeatedly insisted they’ll never do a full-fledged reunion, took the stage at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia to perform with Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy’s R.E.M. cover band.

Near the end of the gig in R.E.M.’s hometown, Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, and Bill Berry joined Shannon and Narducy for a performance of the Reckoning track “Pretty Persuasion.” Mike Mills completed the quartet about halfway through the performance when he jumped on...

Hollywood and music legends look to be pouring money into a fundraiser for New York Dolls singer and Saturday Night Live alum David Johansen, who is battling brain cancer.

Martin Scorsese, Colin Jost, Sony Music’s Rob Stringer, Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready, Hipgnosis Song Fund’s Merck Mercuriadis, the George Lopez Foundation and more notable names appear on a list of donations made to Johansen’s Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, which provides financial assistance to artists struggling with health challenges.

“David is a legend but he’s also my very real very sick dad,” Johansen’s daughter, Leah Hennessy, shared in an Instagram Story on Monday. The statement came in partnership with the Johansen’s Sweet Relief page reveals he has been in treatment for stage 4 cancer “for most of the past decade.”

On the fund’s donations page, Scorsese (who directed the 2022 Johansen documentary Personality Crisis), the George Lopez Foundation,...

Patti Smith has announced a tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of her landmark album Horses, during which she’ll perform the record in full across Europe, the UK, and the US in fall 2025.

Accompanying Smith on the tour will be guitarist Lenny Kaye and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, both of whom played on Horses. Her live band will also feature keyboardist/bassist Tony Shanahan and guitarist Jackson Smith.

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An artist ticket pre-sale is set for Wednesday, February 12th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster, with a public on-sale following on Friday, February 14th at 10:00 a.m. local time.

The upcoming tour will mark Smith’s first time playing Horses in full in 20 years. “Please join us to help celebrate the final ride of our irreverent thoroughbred,” she said in a press release.

Prior to the tour’s kick-off, Smith will be honored...

Patti Smith will perform her debut album Horses in full on tour to celebrate the LP’s 50 anniversary. The tour will feature feature guitarist Lenny Kaye and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, both of whom played on the original 1975 recording.

The anniversary trek will kick off on Oct. 6 at Dublin’s 3Arena, with dates in Madrid, Bergamo, Brussels, Oslo, London, and Paris. Smith will head to the U.S. the following month, with shows beginning Nov. 10 at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre. The U.S. segment will also stop in Oakland, San Francisco,...

Andy Paley, a prolific songwriter, producer and musician who collaborated with such artists as Brian Wilson, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Ramones, Madonna, Elton John, Patti Smith and Deborah Harry, and who composed the scores for SpongeBob SquarePants and other TV shows, died Wednesday, November 20, of cancer. He was 72.

“We are saddened to learn of the passing of Brian’s friend and collaborator, Andy Paley,” a post on Brian Wilson’s official Facebook page reads. “Andy was literally instrumental in Brian starting his solo career with his critically acclaimed 1988 album, Brian Wilson. Andy played electric and acoustic guitars, bass, drums, percussion, keyboards, harmonica, and provided backing vocals. He co-wrote three of the songs, including “Rio Grande.” Andy collaborated again with Brian on the legendary, unreleased Wilson-Paley Sessions, counting more than twenty songs. Brian always called him ‘The Genius Andy Paley.’ Love and mercy goes out to Andy’s family and friends.

The inaugural Little Steven’s Underground Garage Cruise will set sail in May 2025, featuring a lineup of Social Distortion, X, Rocket From the Crypt, Old 97’s, Reverend Horton Heat, and more.

The cruise, produced by Sixthman, will board May 9th, 2025, in Miami on the Norwegian Gem, and hit Nassau, Bahamas, along the way, before returning on May 13th. Sign-ups for the first round of pre-sale cabin tickets are taking place through June 4th via the cruise’s official website, with a public onsale beginning June 11th.

In addition to the aforementioned acts, Little Steven’s Underground Garage Cruise will feature Low Cut Connie, Los Straightjackets, The Dictators, The Fleshtones, The Woggles, Supersuckers, Lenny Kaye (of the Patti Smith Group), Slim Jim Phantom Trio, Linda Gail Lewis, Deke Dickerson, The Woggles, The Coolies, The Untamed Youth, The Neanderthals, The Sound Minds, and more.

The cruise is associated with Bruce Springsteen & The...

Little Steven’s Underground Garage is one of the most eclectic channels on SiriusXM’s rock lineup, playing everything from legit garage bands like the Chesterfield Kings and the Dollyrots alongside cowpunk kings Old 97’s and SoCal punk legends Social Distortion. In May 2025, the channel will take that aesthetic and those bands to sea on the inaugural Little Steven’s Underground Garage Cruise.

Set for May 9 through 13, the four-day voyage — produced by cruise-concert experts Sixthman — sails from Miami to Nassau, Bahamas, aboard the Norwegian Gem and features a loud and brash lineup.

A muse, a mother, a fashionista, an actor, a rock ‘n’ roll icon — it’s hard to describe exactly why Anita Pallenberg remains such a compelling figure more than a half-century after the captivating blonde sang backing vocals on the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil” and starred in movies like “Performance” and “Barbarella.”

The new documentary “Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg” delves into both the beautiful and tragic moments of her eventful life with the help of a treasure trove of home movies and interviews, as well as an unpublished memoir penned by Pallenberg and narrated by Scarlett Johansson. The footage is coupled with interviews of the Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards, with whom she had a significant relationship, their children Marlon and Angela Richards, director Volker Schlondorff, who cast her in some of his films, and her former friends and associates.

“I’ve been called a witch,...

The First Lady of Outlaw Country has returned.

In an exclusive premiere with Rolling Stone on Wednesday, Jessi Colter debuted her first new single in six years, “Standing on the Edge of Forever.” The song opens her new album, Edge of Forever, the next chapter of her storied career, out Oct. 27 on Appalachia Record Co.

The 10-track collection is the long-awaited follow up to 2017’s Lenny Kaye-produced The Psalms. “It was really sheer enjoyment for me to be able to do, because I really hadn’t planned anything much further,...

This Friday, March 24th, Rhino is releasing the Fully Re-Loaded Edition box set of The Velvet Underground’s 1970 classic Loaded. Featuring nearly all the music from the expansive 45th anniversary CD reissue from 2015, this new vinyl collection contains nine LPs and four 7-inches, and it’s limited to just 1,970 copies. Lucky for you, you don’t have to race fans to get in on this incredible boxed set, because we’re giving one away — for free.

Valued at $250, Loaded (Fully Re-Loaded Edition) includes three versions of the album: stereo, mono, and a “full-length” mix that boasts extended takes of “Sweet Jane,” “Rock & Roll,” and “New Age.” The 7-inches include the first-ever vinyl reissue of “Rock & Roll” and the first “Who Loves the Sun” reissue since ’70. There’s also the French single “Head Held High” and the German single “Sweet Jane.”

Also included are a number of demos, early versions, and alternate mixes.

The incendiary track that closes the A-side of the Patti Smith Group’s 1978 album, Easter, “Rock n Roll N—-r,” is no longer available on streaming services. The track was quietly removed in recent months from Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, and Amazon Music, though an exact removal date and Smith’s involvement is unknown. The song is still available on physical copies of Easter, which is one of Smith’s bestselling records thanks to its single “Because the Night,” and is still included when people buy the full album as a download.

The Black Crowes founder Rich Robinson has announced an all-star lineup for a pair of concerts celebrating 40 years of R.E.M.’s debut EP Chronic Town. The two-night event, set to be hosted in Georgia on Dec. 14 and 15, will double as a benefit show with proceeds going towards Planned Parenthood. The concert will spend its first night at the 40 Watt Club in Athens and its second at the Coca-Cola Roxy in Atlanta.

“Growing up in Atlanta in the 1980s, R.E.M. was the preeminent band of that era,” Robinson said in a statement.

“Nightclubbing,” the first-ever documentary about the legendary New York City nightclub Max’s Kansas City, which from 1965 through 1981 was a hotbed for the city’s rock, glam, punk and new wave scenes, has announced a series of screenings across the globe in July and August.

The film — the full title of which is “Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC” — will screen along with another doc from Chip Baker Films, “Sid: The Final Curtain,” which is a brief documentary about the late Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious’ final concert, which took place at Max’s.

“Nightclubbing” is the sixth music documentary from Spanish filmmaker Danny Garcia (others include “The Rise and Fall of The Clash” and “Rolling Stone: The Life and Death of Brian Jones” about the group’s founder and original leader). It premiered at the Dock of the Bay Film Festival in San Sebastián, Spain last month...

As Lizzo’s “Truth Hurts” recently demonstrated, sometimes it takes a while for a song to catch on and become a hit. Lizzo’s track exploded two years after release, and something similar happened over 30 years ago with Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game.” When Isaak’s Heart Shaped World was initially rolled out in 1989, it didn’t make much of an impact. Then, with an assist from director David Lynch, “Wicked Game” caught on and got released as a single in late 1990. Finally, in 1991, the song broke into the Top...

Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner will finally release a formal studio recording of his orchestral song cycle, 41 Strings, which was first commissioned for a special Earth Day event in 2011.

41 Strings comprises four movements, each corresponding to a respective season. The project blends classical and rock elements as the recording of “Fall” captures, its swooning strings getting a jolt from a steady marching snare and then later the restless buzz of an electric guitar.

Including its 2011 debut, Zinner has performed 41 Strings just four times, because the production is such an undertaking.

Because it is indeed the season, Austin City Limits has shared St. Vincent’s performance of “At the Holiday Party” from her upcoming episode in the second half of PBS’ long-running concert show’s 47th season.

The performance of “At the Holiday Party” begins with a light guitar strum and a waiter suddenly appearing on stage to hand out drinks to St. Vincent and her backing band. Before fully launching into the slick rendition of the Daddy’s Home track, St. Vincent proposes a toast to Austin City Limits and, “More than anything,...

Pearl Jam performed a handful of songs from their latest LP Gigaton live for the first time and paid tribute to Bruce Springsteen and Charlie Watts Saturday during the band’s headlining set at Asbury Park, New Jersey’s Sea.Hear.Now Festival, a gig that also marked Pearl Jam’s first concert in over three years.

Eighteen months after Gigaton arrived at the dawn of the Covid-19 pandemic, Eddie Vedder and company delivered the live debut of the album’s “Superblood Wolfmoon,” “Quick Escape,” “Seven O’ Clock,” “Never Destination” and “Take the Long Way,...

Nick Cave, Vanessa Carlton, and more appear in the new trailer for Karen Dalton: In My Own Time, a new documentary on the folk singer out October 1st.

Directed by Richard Peete and Robert Yapkowitz, the trailer features archival footage of Dalton, from her upbringing in Oklahoma to her days New York City’s Greenwich Village folk scene, where she sang with Bob Dylan, Tim Hardin, and others. It chronicles her tumultuous life that ended with her death in 1993 from AIDS when she was just 55 years old — and the...

The New York Dolls’ David Johansen and Earl Slick will lead a virtual tribute concert to their late bandmate, Sylvain Sylvain, February 14th at 7 p.m. Et.

The show will feature a mix of stories, performances, and videos from an array of Sylvain’s peers and admirers. Along with Johansen and Slick, the lineup boasts Debbie Harry, Thurston Moore, Henry Rollins, Clem Burke, Lenny Kaye, Bob Gruen, Michael Des Barres, Mara Hennessey, Ivan Julian, Chuck Prophet, Glen Matlock, the Blue Oyster Cult’s Joe, and Albert Houchard and the Lemon Twigs.

It wouldn’t be a celebration without Patti Smith singing “People Have the Power,” and the legend did just that, teaming up with Circa for a performance on Inauguration Day Wednesday.

Smith’s performance occurs five minutes into the clip, accompanied by Lenny Kaye and her children Jesse Paris and Jackson. “It’s a beautiful night,” she told the camera. “We have a new year to look forward to in America, a new administration, and a new president and vice president, and our democracy seems to be quite intact. just wish everyone a better year....

Sylvain Sylvain, the guitarist who was a founding member of the pioneering rock group New York Dolls, died Wednesday following a battle with cancer. He was 69.

His death was announced Thursday; In a statement, his friend, Patti Smith Group guitarist Lenny Kaye wrote in part that “Syl loved rock and roll. His onstage joy, his radiant smile as he chopped at his guitar, revealed the sense of wonder he must have felt at the age of 10, emigrating from his native Cairo with his family in 1961, the ship pulling into New York Harbor and seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time.”

Sylvain’s wife, Wanda O’Kelley Mizrahi, also remembered her husband in the Facebook post: “As most of you know, Sylvain battled cancer for the past two and 1/2 years. Though he fought it valiantly, yesterday he passed away from this disease. While we grieve his loss, we know...

Sylvain Sylvain, a punk guitar icon best known for his work with the New York Dolls, died Wednesday from cancer, according to a Facebook post by his wife.

“As most of you know, Sylvain battled cancer for the past two and 1/2 years,” wrote Wendy Mizrahi, in a statement on his Facebook page. “Though he fought it valiantly, yesterday he passed away from this disease. While we grieve his loss, we know that he is finally at peace and out of pain. Please crank up his music, light a candle, say a prayer and let’s send this beautiful doll on his way.”

The New York Dolls released its self-titled 1973 debut album to little acclaim, and were generally far outside the mainstream.

But the band and its album grew in stature as the world caught up, with Rolling Stone...

Sylvain Sylvain, the punk icon and guitarist for New York Dolls whose riffs bridged the gap between punk and glam, died Wednesday. He was 69. The musician, who also contributed bass, piano and songwriting to the groundbreaking band’s first two albums, had been battling cancer.

“As most of you know, Sylvain battled cancer for the past two and 1/2 years,” his wife, Wanda O’Kelley Mizrahi, wrote in a statement on his Facebook page. “Though he fought it valiantly, yesterday he passed away from this disease. While we grieve his loss,...

Patti Smith and guitarist Lenny Kaye delivered an impromptu performance of “People Have the Power” for early voters in New York City.

The punk legends took well to the busking environment, breezing through a ramshackle version of the 1988 song, while even getting some accompaniment from lined-up fans who knew the song’s chorus. At the end of the performance, Smith proclaimed, “Don’t forget it, use your voice! Vote!”

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October 24th marks the final release date for Record Store Day’s rescheduled 2020 events. The worldwide celebration, normally held on a Saturday in April, split its offerings this year into three separate “drops,” beginning with August 29th and September 26th. This way, the highest number of record stores have been able to partake, providing revenue during the pandemic while minimizing crowds. We’ve combed through the October drop to pull out our favorite records you can pick up this Saturday, from Miles Davis to Warren Zevon. And don’t worry...

When Record Store Day announced this year’s event will be spread in three “drop” dates — August 29th, September 26th, and October 24th — we knew we had to organize three separate lists to highlight the event’s spectacular releases. The September drop, which occurs on Saturday, features classics (alternate takes of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours) as well as records that have been unavailable for years (Nas’ God’s Son). It’s a great way to support your favorite record store, and these drops will allow the largest number of them to partake.

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Voters were asked to submit ranked ballots listing their 50 favorite albums of all time. Votes were tabulated, with the highest-ranked album on each list receiving 300 points, the second highest 290 points, and so on down to 44 points for number 50. More than 3,000 albums received at least one vote.

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Patti Smith, Joan Baez and more have shared a socially distanced rendition of “People Have the Power” for Pathway to Paris, a non-profit organization dedicated to addressing climate change.

The performance arrives on the sixth anniversary of the non-profit — founded by musician Jesse Paris Smith and cellist Rebecca Foon — as well as Climate Week NYC. The video clocks in at eight minutes, featuring artists, activists, students and more across 24 countries, 38 cities and 6 continents. Michael Stipe, Cyndi Lauper, Lenny Kaye, Jackson Smith, Stella McCartney, Ben Harper, Tony Hawk, Chris Stills, the Strokes’ Nikolai Feaiture,...

On Saturday, August 15th, Morrison Hotel Gallery and its partners are proud to present (De)Tour, a daylong charity music festival featuring an all-star lineup of artists working in association with MusiCares®, National Independent Venue Association (Niva), and Spotify in support of fellow artists, crew members, and independent venues and promoters.

When the coronavirus pandemic struck – pressing pause on all live tours and concerts and putting many touring artists and crew members out of work – the gallery went to work to forge a new kind of virtual show for these extraordinary times.

(De)Tour promises to be a show like no other. Featuring performances by iconic artists including Ringo Starr, Linda Perry, Slash, Gavin Rossdale, Macy Gray, Sean Lennon, Jesse Malin, Cheap Trick, Taylor Momsen and The Badflower, John Oates, David Johansen, Billy Gibbons, Darryl McDaniels (a.k.a. Dmc), Gilby Clarke, Donita Sparks, Matt Sorum, Lzzy Hale, Bluebonnets, Charlotte Muhl,...

Morrison Hotel Gallery and Rolling Live Studios will be hosting (De)Tour, a day-long virtual charity festival in association with MusiCares and Niva, on Saturday, August 15th.

The lineup for the virtual event includes performances by Ringo Starr, Linda Perry, Slash, Gavin Rossdale, Macy Gray, Sean Lennon, Jesse Malin, Cheap Trick, Taylor Momsen, Badflower, John Oates, David Johansen, Billy Gibbons, Darryl McDaniels (a.k.a. Dmc), Gilby Clarke, Donita Sparks, Matt Sorum, Lzzy Hale, Bluebonnets, Charlotte Muhl, David Ramirez, Al Barr, Eve Monsees, Scream, Haley Reinhart, Joseph Arthur, Kathy Valentine,...

Paul McCartney has dug deep in his vault for an upcoming, in-depth reissue of his 1997 album, Flaming Pie.

The massive reissue, which comes out July 31st, features his intimate home recordings, studio jams, rough mixes, outtakes, audio from his radio show at the time, Oobu Joobu, a documentary about making the record and bonus films.

The redux, which is the latest in the Archive Collection he personally oversees, will be available in several configurations. The lavish collector’s edition contains five CDs, two DVDs and four LPs. There’s also a deluxe edition,...

Exclusive: Vincent Vittorio’s documentary Record Safari, which was originally planned to be released in partnership with the Coachella music festival before it cancelled due to the Covid-19 climate, is hitting digital tomorrow on Apple TV, Roku and Chromecast with plans to partner with a larger digital platform down the road.

Record Safari follows eccentric record collector, Alex Rodriguez, who travels across America to obscure places to curate an unmatched record collection for Coachella Music Festival’s on-site record store. Vittorio also produced along with Jeremy Doublestein, Regain Hines, and Claudio Zungri.

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Along with Rodriguez,...

At a time when leaders spout lies and cries of “fake news” put reputable media outlets in doubt, audiences showed an astonishing appetite for nonfiction filmmaking. This year, more than 15 documentaries crossed the $1 million mark in theaters, ranging from high-profile concert films (such as Bruce Springsteen’s “Western Stars” and “Bring the Soul: The Movie”) to powerful human interest stories (“Maiden” and “The Biggest Little Farm”). Revolutionary “The Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson pushed the boundaries of the medium yet again, bringing fresh dimension to century-old World War I footage in his 3D doc “They Shall Not Grow Old”, while high-frame-rate eco doc “Aquarela” changed the way we look at water. All told, it was an incredibly strong year for documentaries, amid which Variety film critics Peter Debruge and Owen Gleiberman singled out these 10 as their favorites.

1. “The Hottest August”

When you think of climate change documentaries, chances...

In 2011, Nick Zinner, guitarist of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, wrote 41 Strings, a four-part symphony to mark Earth Day. He’s since performed the piece around the world, including London’s Meltdown Festival and Australia’s Sydney Opera House with musicians like the xx’s Romy Madley Croft and Savages’ Gemma Thompson. The orchestral piece – which is built to reflect the change of fall, winter, spring and summer – has also made it to TV: the “spring” portion of the piece is currently the theme music for HBO’s Vice.

Zinner has now...

Forty years ago in Los Angeles, the decision to invest millions in a museum dedicated exclusively to contemporary art — not to mention its formerly desolate downtown location, where the vibe was more apocalyptic than artsy — was a risky proposition. But now that the city’s cultural heart has shifted south of Hollywood, it seems visionary.

And thanks to the Museum of Contemporary Art’s new director Klaus Biesenbach, what once seemed bound to be a big flop was buzzy on Saturday night, with the Moca Benefit gala attracting an eclectic crowd that included punk rockers (Patti Smith) and politicians (Mayor Eric Garcetti) as well as pop stars (Katy Perry and Ricky Martin) and leading men (Keanu Reeves and Orlando Bloom) to its benefit.

“I’m excited about Klaus leading the museum because he has a vision and he’s someone who is willing to take risks,” said the Mayor of...

Jessi Colter, the first lady of the Outlaw Country movement, has a new album on the way, one that pairs her up with a contemporary country rebel in Margo Price. According to a series of tweets by the artists, Price spent a week in May in Nashville producing Colter’s latest project. The as-yet-untitled album is the follow-up to 2017’s The Psalms, a collection of stripped-down religious recordings that were produced by Lenny Kaye.

“I spent the entire past week producing an incredible new album for the Og Queen of ‘Outlaw’ Country,...

Head over to Greenwich Village, go up Bleecker Street, just a few blocks past 6th Avenue, and then make a left. Keep walking until you get to 42 Carmine Street. That’s where you’ll find Rick Kelly. The Long Island native with the gray hair and the slightly oversized black t-shirt might be ambling around the retail section of the storefront, which he opened up in 1990. He might be talking to his elderly mom Dorothy, who balances the books, answers the phones and dusts the framed pics of Kelly standing...

“Carmine Street Guitars” is a one-of-a-kind documentary that exudes a gentle, homespun magic. It’s a no-fuss, 80-minute-long portrait of Rick Kelly, who builds and sells custom guitars out of a modest storefront on Carmine Street in New York’s Greenwich Village, and the film touches on obsessions that have been popping up, like fragrant weeds, in the world of documentary. “Carmine Street Guitars” is all about the weirdly grounded pleasures of analog culture; about the glory of hand-made artisanal objects in a world dominated by mass corporate production; about the aging, and persistence, of old-school jazz and rock ‘n’ roll; about the fading of bohemia in a world of rising rents, omnivorous bottom lines, and chain-store values; and about how all those themes fuse into a Zen ideal of doing what you love and loving what you do.

The film sounds earnest and touching in a minor, twilight-of-the-’60s way.

Rick Kelly with Anne-Katrin Titze at Carmine Street Guitars on instigator Jim Jarmusch: "I really like The Limits of Control because there's some of my dialogue that's in that movie." Photo: Ed Bahlman

In Ron Mann's welcoming Carmine Street Guitars (a New York Film Festival highlight in Spotlight on Documentary), dedicated to Jonathan Demme, featuring the mastery of Rick Kelly and Cindy Hulej we go into the woods.

Jim Jarmusch, along with Eszter Balint, Patti Smith's Lenny Kaye, Bill Frisell, Charlie Sexton, Marc Ribot (Alexandre Moors' The Yellow Birds), Eleanor Friedberger, Christine Bougie of the Bahamas, Wilko's Nels Cline, The Roots' Kirk Douglas, Jamie Hince of The Kills, Lou Reed's guitar tech Stewart Hurwood, Dallas Good and Travis Good of The Sadies, who also composed the music for the documentary, all appear in the shop and play guitar except one.

Rick Kelly: "I really...

"You got any guitars for sale?" Abramorama has debuted an official trailer for an indie music documentary titled Carmine Street Guitars, made by Canadian filmmaker Ron Mann, profiling the iconic guitar store in NYC where Rick Kelly makes custom guitars. Kelly has been making guitars at his Greenwich Village shop for decades, "using preserved and repurposed wood scavenged from historic New York buildings. His list of customers is legendary, and many — Patti Smith Group co-founder Lenny Kaye, Eleanor Friedberger, Charlie Sexton, Bill Frisell, director and part-time guitarist Jim Jarmusch — show up to perform, talk gear, and tell stories about everyone from Jimi Hendrix to Bob Dylan." The doc shows us five days in the life of the iconic Greenwich Village store, examining an all-too-quickly vanishing way of life. Looks quite inspiring. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Ron Mann's doc Carmine Street Guitars, direct from YouTube: Once the centre of NYC's bohemia,...