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Pixies appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday night (June 18th), where they performed “Motoroller.” Watch the replay below.

“Motoroller” appears on Pixies’ latest album, The Night The Zombies Came, which arrived in 2024. “This is one of those kinds of songs where there’s little threads you can follow and they take you somewhere,” Frank Black previously said about the song. “But they’re not required for the experience. You can just start fishing around in the lyrics, and maybe you won’t find exactly what the story is, but you’ll find a story related to the city of Berlin. So just have fun with the clues that are there.”

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The alt-rock legends are presently in the midst of an extensive North American tour, with upcoming dates in Seattle, Washington, Montreal, and Boston, during which they’re performing their classic albums Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde in full.

Modest Mouse have announced the Psychic Salamander Festival, a new two-day festival going down on September 13th-14th in Carnation, Washington.

The inaugural edition will feature Modest Mouse headlining both days, with their co-headlining tour mates The Flaming Lips performing both days as well. The Psychic Salamander Festival will also feature Built to Spill, Sleater-Kinney, Courtney Barnett, Yo La Tengo, Friko, The Vaudevillian, Mattress, and Sun Atoms across two days.

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Tickets for the Psychic Salamander Festival will first be available via an artist pre-sale on Tuesday, April 29th at 10:00 a.m. Pst for members of Modest Mouse’s “Ice Cream Party” fan club; fans can sign up over on the band’s official website. Tickets will go on-sale for the general public on Friday, May 2nd at 10:00 a.m. Pst via Ticketmaster.

The festival comes at the conclusion of Modest Mouse and The Flaming Lips’ 2025 co-headlining tour,...

Modest Mouse have announced their inaugural “Ice Cream Floats” cruise, set to take place in February 2026. The star-studded lineup for the four-night, round-trip voyage will be topped by Portugal. The Man, Kurt Vile and the Violators, and Mannequin Pussy.

Sailing from Miami, Florida to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic aboard the Norwegian Pearl from February 5th through 9th, 2026, “Modest Mouse Presents Ice Cream Floats” will also feature performances from Fidlar, Built to Spill, Tropical Fuck Storm, Ugly Casanova, The Black Heart Procession, and comedian David Cross.

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A priority pre-sale for Modest Mouse’s Ice Cream Party fan community will kick off on April 14th. Fans can sign up for the first round of pre-sales now through April 10th at 11:59 p.m. Et, with the final round of pre-sale sign-ups concluding on April 20th at 11:59 p.m. Et. The public on-sale will follow on April...

Pixies have announced a new leg of US tour dates going down in late August and September 2025. They’ll be joined by Spoon for the duration of the tour, along with Fazerdaze.

The tour kicks off in San Diego with a show on August 27th, and continues on with stops in Berkeley, Oklahoma City, Austin, Houston, Birmingham, Raleigh, Asheville, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Nashville, and many more. Along the way, they’ll play Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado, the Bourbon & Beyond festival in Louisville, Kentucky, and Shaky Knees Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, where the tour ends. See Pixies’ full list of 2025 tour dates below, with the new dates listed in bold.

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Tickets for Pixies’ fall 2025 tour will first be available for select dates via a Live Nation pre-sale kicking off on Wednesday, February 26th at 10:00 a.m. local time (use code Duet). Tickets will go on-sale...

“SiriusXMU Old School” with host Jenny Eliscu has been delivering vintage indie sounds for 15 years.

Now, for the first time ever, Jenny invites some of the channel’s most influential artists to take over the show as guest hosts, sharing their favorite classic indie songs.

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Celebrate the show’s milestone anniversary with hour-long, guest-hosted episodes from Stephen Malkmus (Pavement), Bethany Cosentino (Best Coast), Sasami, and Kurt Vile — available to stream now, exclusively on the SiriusXM app, with more to come.

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Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy stopped by The Tonight Show to showcase a dynamic cover of R.E.M.’s 1985 song “Driver 8.” The performance previews the duo’s forthcoming tour that will showcase the rock band’s third studio LP, Fables Of The Reconstruction.

Shannon and Narducy previously toured R.E.M.’s iconic debut album, Murmur, in full. The trek attracted guests like Kurt Vile and R.E.M.’s Mike Mills. During their show in Athens, Georgia, last February, the four members of R.E.M. reunited on stage, with Mills,...

Off a residential street deep in the south of Austin, behind a light-up sign that says “South Austin: Still Weird,” sits a cozy, rambler-style watering hole called the Far Out Lounge. An on-and-off spot for live music starting in the early 1900s, the bar got a new life five years ago when Pedro Carvalho and two of his friends took over the business. Carvalho, 37, a longtime musician and Austinite, expanded the bar’s musical repertoire far beyond its previous comfort zone of cover bands and karaoke, hosting everything from...

The cast of Apple TV’s Yo Gabba GabbaLand! linked up with Thundercat to transform the NPR office into a colorful, kid-friendly world. Watch their edition of NPR’s long-running Tiny Desk Concert series below.

Featuring Kammy Kam (Kamryn Smith), Muno (Adam Deibert), Brobee (Amos Watene), Foofa (Emma Penrose), and Toodee (Erin Pierce), the gang bops and hops their way through “We’re in Yo Gabba GabbaLand!,” “Hold Still,” and “I’m So Mad (Just Breathe).” They then invite bass extraordinaire Thundercat to play “The Orange Cat’s Special Time Outdoors” and “Party in My Tummy.”

“Tiny Desk is basically hallowed ground at this point,” GabbaLand! co-creator Scott Schultz said in a statement. “Just to be asked was a huge honor for us. We’re incredibly grateful to the NPR Music team and, of course, our friend Thundercat. We were so happy to bring the Gabba magic to the iconic...

Pixies have announced a 2025 North American tour which will see the alt-rock legends perform their classic albums, Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde, in full as part of a two-night run in 14 different cities.

The tour officially kicks off in Las Vegas on June 13th and will see the band play two nights each in cities including Phoenix, Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver, Montreal, Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Detroit, and St. Paul.

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On night one, Pixies will perform the entirety of both their 1990 album Bossanova and 1991 follow-up, Trompe Le Monde. Then, on night two, they’ll play a set of greatest hits as well as songs from their new album, The Night The Zombies Came. Kurt Vile + The Violators will provide support for the entirety of the trek.

A Live Nation ticket pre-sale will begin on Wednesday, October 30th at 10:00 a.m. local time (use access code Tempo) via Ticketmaster,...

Fresh off the announcement of their forthcoming live album, Live Drugs Again, The War on Drugs have dropped a new cover of Tom Petty’s “You Wreck Me.” Stream their version of the song below.

The War on Drugs’ take on “You Wreck Me” comes via the new Vince Vaughn-starring Apple TV+ series Bad Monkey. The soundtrack for the show boasts a host of Petty covers, including interpretations from Eddie Vedder (“Room at the Top”), Jason Isbel, Kurt Vile, Sharon Van Etten, Weezer, and more.

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The band’s cover of the Wildflowers cut plays it pretty darn faithfully. The performances are jangly and frontman Adam Granduciel’s lead vocals even sound a bit like Petty himself. Listen for yourself below.

Earlier today (September 4th), The War on Drugs announced Live Drugs Again, their follow-up to 2020’s Live Drugs. To accompany the announcement,...

Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry team up for flirtatious action antics in Netflix’s “The Union,” and they do it all to a soundtrack jam-packed with crowd-pleasing needle drops. Wahlberg stars as Mike, a Jersey construction worker who goes from building bridges to dodging bullets when his high school girlfriend Roxanne (Berry) shows up unexpectedly and brings him into a covert intelligence agency called The Union.

The film wastes no time dropping track after track of familiar songs full of classic rock, pop and R&b classics, from a couple of Jersey essentials by Bruce Springsteen to Bill Withers and Pat Benatar. And, of course, as all things in the Brat Summer of 2024 must, it also has a Charli Xcx song. Check out the complete list of songs on “The Union” soundtrack below.

“The Union” Soundtrack List “Lovely Day” by Bill Withers “The Promised Land” by Bruce Springsteen “Big Road...

Academy Award winner Halle Berry and Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg have officially teamed up for the action-comedy movie The Union on Netflix, and it's one of the biggest new releases in August. The movie stars headline the high octane thriller about long-ago significant others who reunite in the most unexpected way you could ever imagine.

Berry plays Roxanne Hall, a spy for the United States government, while Wahlberg plays the fish out of water plumber Mike who's suddenly recruited into an action packed and risky intelligence mission. The Union features all of the heart, humor, and fast-paced action sequences movie fans could want, and the movie has an excellent soundtrack of catchy songs and thrilling score to set the scene.

One of the first songs played in the film is "Lovely Day" by Bill Withers, which sets the tone of additional throwback songs featured in the movie. Since Roxanne...

You know who loves a good story time? Why, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, of course! Don’t let the wild stage shenanigans and colored hair fool you — Flea can read a mean tale, and that’s exactly what he does in a new clip from the upcoming Apple TV+ series Yo Gabba GabbaLand! Check out the clip, which Consequence is exclusively premiering, below.

In the snippet, one of the greatest bassists of all time tells the story of a funny little otter with help from his young friend Levi. The two read together as classic Yo Gabba Gabba-esque animated visuals assist in bringing the tale to life.

Check out the full clip below before the full season premieres globally on Apple TV+ on Friday, August 9th. If you’re not already a subscriber to Apple TV+, you can sign up here.

Inspired by the beloved children’s program Yo Gabba Gabba,...

The soundtrack for Yo Gabba GabbaLand!, the upcoming Apple TV+ revival of the popular kids TV show Yo Gabba Gabba!, has been announced for release on August 9th via BMG. As a preview, The Linda Lindas have shared their contribution to the album, a cute track called “I’m So Happy to Be Little.” Stream it below.

Besides The Linda Lindas, the Yo Gabba GabbaLand! soundtrack is stacked with guest appearances from Anderson .Paak, Portugal. The Man, Kurt Vile, Thundercat, Big Daddy Kane, Ty Segall, Betty Who, The Drums, and Claud — many of whom were previously revealed as special guests on the show. See the artwork and full tracklist below.

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“I’m So Happy to Be Little” will appear in Episode 3 of Yo Gabba GabbaLand! Season 1. In a statement, The Linda Lindas expressed excitement for their appearance on a show they grew up watching.

My Lady Jane is a historical fiction television series that premiered on Amazon Prime Video. The show is based on the novel "Lady Jane Grey" by Eva Ibbotson and follows the story of Jane Grey, who becomes the queen of England at the age of 16. The series features a mix of romance, drama, and political intrigue, set in the 16th century. Here are the songs featured in each episode of My Lady Jane: Episode 1 Songs:

Warning: Spoilers for My Lady Jane

Prime Video's My Lady Jane retells history with a new look at Tudor-style Englands politics and music. The series official soundtrack features only nine covers of famous songs. However, the show makes specific use of many other songs, most of them being notably recent. This decision to use modern music in a historical tale reflects the shows subversion of the typical storytelling style for shows about this subject. Other...

Season 4 of the Gary Oldman-led espionage drama “Slow Horses” will return to Apple TV+ Sept. 4 with a two-episode premiere. Based on the novel “Spook Street” by Mick Herron, the series follows Oldman as Jackson Lamb, a pessimistic intelligence agent who must lead M15’s dumping ground department known as Slough House after a career-ending incident.

Per an official logline, the new season “opens with a bombing that detonates personal secrets, rocking the already unstable foundations of Slough House.”

“Slow Horses” is adapted for television by Will Smith (“Veep”) and produced by See-Saw Films. Executive producers include Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Jane Robertson, Julian Stevens, Douglas Urbanski, Gail Mutrux, Graham Yost and Smith. Adam Randall serves as director.

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Paramount+ has released the trailer and key art for the seventh and final season of its original drama series “Seal Team,...

Wilson Bethel is going off the grid: The All Rise vet has joined Eric Bana in the Netflix limited series Untamed, our sister site Deadline reports.

The mystery thriller centers around Kyle Turner (Bana), “a special agent for the National Parks Service who works to enforce human law in nature’s vast wilderness. The investigation of a brutal death sends Turner on a collision course with the dark secrets within the park and in his own past.”

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Yo Gabba Gabba! will gab again: On August 9th, Yo Gabba GabbaLand!, a spin-off of the popular music-centric kids TV show that ran from 2007 to 2015, will premiere on Apple TV+.

The 10-episode series was announced back in April, but the show’s extensive list of guest stars have been revealed today. Apple TV+ confirms that Anderson .Paak, The Linda Lindas, Portugal. The Man, Kurt Vile, Betty Who, The Drums, The Interrupters, Thundercat, Vulfpeck collaborators Antuwan Stanley and Corey Wong, and more will appear as musical guests.

Meanwhile, Flea, Diplo, Big Daddy Kane, Paul Williams, Reggie Watts, and actor/comedians Lauren Lapkus, Sam Richardson, Chelsea Peretti, Gillian Jacobs, and Utkarsh Ambudkar will make appearances on the show. The show is created by original Yo Gabba Gabba! helmers Christian Jacob and Scott Schultz, who are also known for their work with the ska-rock band The Aquabats.

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Ready to rock out in Yo Gabba GabbaLand? On Monday, Apple TV+ announced that it will premiere a reprised version of Yo Gabba Gabba on Aug. 9, featuring a long list of guest stars, including Anderson. Paak, Flea, and Thundercat.

Among the other guests set to be featured on the kids’ show are Portugal. The Man, Betty Who, the Linda Lindas, Miyavi, Cory Wong and Antwaun Stanley, Kurt Vile, the Interrupters, and the Drums. Each artist will perform tracks tied to the themes of each episode.

“Come on, let’s turn up!

Today, Apple TV+ unveiled the roster of musical guests for Yo Gabba GabbaLand!, the new 10-episode series inspired by the celebrated Emmy Award-nominated cultural phenomenon Yo Gabba Gabba!

Premiering globally on Friday, August 9, Yo Gabba GabbaLand! invites audiences to explore a magical world of endless possibilities and promises with friends, both familiar and new. This reimagining brings to life an expansive Yo Gabba GabbaLand!

Alongside host Kammy Kam, played by rising star Kamryn Smith, and the beloved original characters Brobee (Amos Watene), Foofa (Emma Penrose), Muno (Adam Deibert), Toodee (Erin Pearce) and Plex (Christian Jacobs), a new lineup of “Super Music Friends” and special guests will be joining the magical world this season.

Viewers can expect vibrant musical performances and original music from Grammy Award-winning artists, including Anderson .Paak, Portugal. The Man and Thundercat, along with Betty Who, The Linda Lindas, Miyavi, Cory Wong and Antwaun Stanley, Kurt Vile, The Drums,...

Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival is returning to Seattle this September with a lineup led by Pavement, James Blake, Kurt Vile, Courtney Barnett, Kim Gordon, Freddie Gibbs, and Aly & Aj. The event takes place over Labor Day weekend (August 31st – September 1st) at the Seattle Center campus.

Other confirmed acts include Cypress Hill, Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry, Madison Cunningham and Andrew Bird, BadBadNotGood, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Mercury Rev, Lol Tulhurst x Budgie, Hurray For the Riff Raff, Squirrel Flower, Pom Pom Squad, Pink Sifu, Moor Mother, Kassa Overall, Ladytron, and more. Check out the full lineup and 2024 festival poster below.

As with previous years, Bumbershoot features a centerpiece visual arts program curated from artists throughout the Pacific Nortwest, alongside food and beverage offerings from more than 50 regional restaurants, wineries, and breweries.

This year, Bumbershoot is also introducing the animation district as part of its visual arts celebration — the 2024 programming is set to feature visual exhibitions,...

Kurt Vile has announced that he’s expanding his upcoming North American tour to hit nine additional US cities, including Houston, Dallas, Jacksonville, and more.

Kicking off on March 17th in Baltimore, Maryland, Vile’s upcoming tour dates will be in support of his 2023 EP, Back to Moon Beach, which arrived via Verve Records last November. After a leg running through the South, the newly-announced dates will take Vile through Texas and Oklahoma, down through Florida, and then back up for shows in North Carolina and Virginia. Check out the full list of his upcoming dates below.

Tickets for the new shows will go on sale via Vile’s website on Friday, February 9th, at 10:00 a.m. local time.

Running nearly an hour long, Back to Moon Beach follows Vile’s 2022 album, (watch my moves), and features a collection of new songs, covers, and reworked arrangements of previously released tracks.

John Prine made eight separate appearances on Austin City Limits over the course of his career. On Saturday, new episodes of the long-running live-music series return with a show devoted to Prine’s posthumous induction into the Acl Hall of Fame.

Ethan Hawke inducts Prine in a hat-tipping speech but it’s the performances from artists like Tyler Childers, Valerie June, Nathaniel Rateliff, Allison Russell, Kurt Vile, and Prine’s son, Tommy Prine, that make the hour such a moving tribute. Childers’ reading of “Yes I Guess They Oughta Name...

Prepare for a musical celebration as the 9th Annual Austin City Limits (Acl) Hall of Fame pays homage to the legendary John Prine. Tune in at 8:00 Pm on January 13, 2024, on PBS, as actor Ethan Hawke takes the stage to induct the iconic singer-songwriter into the prestigious Acl Hall of Fame. The evening promises not only to be a heartfelt tribute but also a showcase of outstanding performances by an array of talented artists.

Viewers can anticipate soul-stirring renditions by acclaimed musicians such as Tyler Childers, Allison Russell, Nathaniel Rateliff, Valerie June, Kurt Vile, and Tommy Prine. Each artist brings their unique style and interpretation to Prine’s timeless songs, creating a memorable musical experience. Whether you’re a longtime fan of John Prine or discovering his work for the first time, this Acl Hall of Fame special is sure to be a captivating journey through the musical legacy of a true icon.

Austin Psych Fest has unveiled its 2024 lineup, headlined by Courtney Barnett, The Black Angels, Alvvays, and Kurt Vile and the Violators.

Hosted by Levitation, the annual Atx gathering will return to its single-venue format at The Far Out Lounge in South Austin on the weekend of April 26th through the 28th.

Three-day and single-day passes will be on sale for the general public on Friday (December 15th) at 10 a.m. Ct via Levitation’s ticket website. A pre-sale for Levitation 2023 and Austin Psych Fest 2023 attendees goes live at the same link on Thursday (December 14th) at 10 a.m. Ct. Fans can also look for deals or get tickets to sold-out days via StubHub, where your purchase is 100% guaranteed through StubHub’s Fan Protect program.

Courtney Barnett will headline the opening day of the festival, with other acts such as Chicano Batman and Psychedelic Porn Crumpets also performing.

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Beach House put together a pretty stellar setlist for their stripped-down show at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia Monday night (December 11th), including some live debuts and a few rarities they haven’t performed in over a decade.

After a surprise opening set from Philly’s own Kurt Vile, Beach House’s Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally did an intimate gig full of songs for the real heads. They performed “Many Nights” and “The Bells” — both from 2022’s Once Twice Melody: Chapter 3 — live for the very first time, and debuted “Devil’s Pool” from last April’s Become EP.

But the real surprises were the throwback rarities, including “Childhood” from their self-titled debut, which they hadn’t played in a whopping 16 years. They also did “Auburn and Ivory,” another Beach House deep cut, for the first time since 2012. And, for the first time since 2016, they performed Devotion’s “D.A.R.L.I.N.G.” and...

Kurt Vile has announced a new EP called Back to Moon Beach, out November 17th via Verve. Along with its lead single “Another good year for the roses,” the singer-songwriter has also mapped out a run of North American tour dates for 2024.

Though Back to Moon Beach is an EP by name, it would be a proper LP for most other artists, clocking in at nearly an hour long and nine tracks. In a press release, Vile himself says it’s more like a “Kv comp,” adding: “The first 6 tracks — which are the ones that fit on a single LP — are new to the world, with one foot in the not-too-distant past and the other with one tiny toe pointing toward the future. Together my feet are like a couple spanning time together.”

“Another good year for the roses” is Back to Moon Beach’s opening track, and Vile began...

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Nicki Minaj freestyles over Drake and Chief Keef’s “All the Parties” on a suprise drop, 21 Savage gets even for the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 soundtrack, and Blink-182 revamp an old favorite with their classic lineup. Plus, star-studded tracks from 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne, Rick Ross and Meek Mill, and Charli Xcx and Sam Smith.

Nicki Minaj feat. Drake and Chief Keef, “For All the Barbz” (YouTube)

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Kurt Vile, whose prolix verbosity and augmented guitar solos do not lend themselves to brevity (much like this sentence so far), will release a record this fall, on Nov. 17 to be exact, that he has titled Back to Moon Beach, which he heralds today with a new song called “Another Good Year for the Roses” (yes, this sentence is continuing), since it’s one part of an hour-long compendium of tunes he cheekily calls an “E.P.,” or “extended play” (not to be confused with a long-player, much like this...

Herbie Hancock, John Paul Jones, and Laurie Anderson are among the artists set to perform at the 2024 Big Ears festival. On Tuesday, the Knoxville, Tennessee-based fest announced its stacked lineup of legends.

The festival is set to be held in downtown Knoxville from March 21 through March 24 with nearly 200 events, including expositions, conversations and film presentations, along with musical performances.

Multi-instrumentalist Fred Frith, band Unwound, Big Thief’s Adrianne Lenker, bluegrass picker Molly Tuttle, hip-hop trio Digable Planets, and Samora Pinderhughes are also featured on the lineup, along with the likes of Fatoumata Diawara,...

Kurt Vile is officially an Angel. The indie rocker has shared his cover of Charli Xcx’s “Constant Repeat” for Amazon Originals, in celebration of the latter’s new Ivors Visionary Award.

Vile can remember the exact date he became a Charli fan: The same day he released his most recent album, April 2022’s (watch my moves). “I played an in-store at Rough Trade East London and her poster covered the entire front door,” he wrote in a statement. “I flew home the next morning listening to my newly acquired Crash CD over and over again”

Vile shares his love of Charli with his two daughters, 13-year-old Awilda and 10-year-old Delphine, who both provide backing vocals to his rendition of “Constant Repeat.” As you might expect, the Violators bandleader tones down the shuffling dance-pop number into a mellower, folksy jam, even complete with some shoegaze-inspired guitar. It sounds really nice,...

Willie Nelson will dive into his extraordinary catalog of music in a new book, Energy Follows Thought: The Stories Behind My Songs, set to arrive Oct. 31 via HaperCollins.

The book — which Nelson co-wrote with David Ritz and Mickey Raphael — will find the singer offering insights into the lyrics of 160 of his favorite songs. The book will span the entirety of his career, covering some of his earliest hits (some of which he only got paid $50 for) to deeply-cherished deep cuts and some of his clever concept albums.

The songs will...

Kurt Vile has posted a lengthy, heartfelt tribute to the late Rob Laakso, who was a longtime member of Vile’s backing band The Violators as well as shoegaze group the Swirlies. In an Instagram post, Vile praised Laakso as a “musical genius” and credited the multi-instrumentalist for a “shift to epic proportions” after he joined the Violators full-time with 2013’s Wakin on a Pretty Daze.

“This one’s been hard to get out of the fog in my brain and into words for a long time now,” Vile wrote. “Tributes are never easy but this one is just too close to the bone I guess. Thank you to everyone who reached out. It’s been beautiful seeing all the nice things written about Rob, because yeah he was quiet but there was so much to

him. Musical genius. Recording whizz.”

Vile continued by remembering Laakso as a husband and...

Rob Laakso, a longtime guitarist and multi-instrumentalist in Kurt Vile and the Violators, died on Thursday, May 4. His wife Mamie-Claire Cornelius confirmed his death following a battle with cholangiocarcinoma, a rare and aggressive form of bile duct cancer. Laakso was 44.

“I am lost without you but I promise I’ll find our way and I promise to make you proud,” Cornelius wrote on Instagram. “Thank you for giving me the most beautiful life, the most loving and beautiful children and for believing in me every day. You are the light...

Rob Laakso, a member of Kurt Vile’s band The Violators, has died at the age of 44 following a battle with cancer.

Laakso became a full-time member of The Violators in 2013, replacing Adam Granduciel. He contributed to a majority of Vile’s albums, including 2013’s Wakin on a Pretty Daze, 2015’s b’lieve I’m goin down…, and 2018’s Bottle It In. He most recently worked with Vile on his 2022 album, Watch My Moves.

Laasko also played in the shoegaze band Swirlies and the indie rock band Mice Parade.

He is survived by his wife, Mamie-Claire, and their two children. A GoFundMe page has been launched on the family’s behalf.

Rob Laakso, of Kurt Vile & The Violators, Dead at 44

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Willie Nelson has announced the 2023 Outlaw Music Festival Tour. Over the course of 32 shows taking place between June and October, the 89-year-old music legend will share the stage with Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, The Avett Brothers, Bob Weir, John Fogerty, Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, and Margo Price.

The 2023 Outlaw Music Festival Tour also features Gov’t Mule, Marcus King, Trampled By Turtles, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Kathleen Edwards, Flatland Cavalry, Kurt Vile And The Violators, Brittney Spencer, Whiskey Myers, and Particle Kid performing in select cities. Check out the full itinerary below.

Tickets for a newly announced run of shows in September and October go on sale Friday, April 28th via Ticketmaster. A Live-Nation pre-sale will occur one day earlier on Thursday, April 27th using access code Vinyl.

Prior to launching the Outlaw Music Festival Tour, Nelson will celebrate his 90th birthday with a pair...

Independence Day will be a smoke show in Austin this summer as concertgoers try to separate the weed from the barbecue at Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnic. Expect extra celebrations as this year’s installment marks the annual event’s 50th anniversary.

The Picnic, which will take place at Austin’s Q2 Stadium, will of course feature a performance by Nelson and his Family Band, as well as Tyler Childers, Dwight Yoakam, Shakey Graves, Shane Smith and the Saints, Sierra Ferrell, Asleep at the Wheel, and Particle Kid.

Live streaming platform Volume.com has inked a deal with musician and host Andy Frasco to be the new home for the videos of his lifestyle podcast and its associated content Andy Frasco’s World Saving Podcast which has reached an audience of over 45 million to date. Top guests have included Tony Hawk, Bert Kreischer, Melissa Etheridge, LP, Stevie Van Zandt, Fatboy Slim, Billy Strings, Laura Lee (Khruangbin), Bootsy Collins, and Nathaniel Rateliff.

“So excited to be working together with one of the best live stream networks on the internet. Their team is exactly what this podcast needs to take our discussions of mental health, addiction, and life with artists, comedians, and athletes who mean the world to us into the stratosphere.” - Andy Frasco

On March 14, 2023 the 210th Episode featuring Daniel Donato will launch.

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Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival Tour rides again in 2023. And this time, it’s a dual celebration: not only of music that colors outside the lines, but of its headliner’s 90th birthday. Nelson turns 90 on April 29.

Kicking off June 23, in Somerset, Wisconsin, the Outlaw Tour will initially play 16 shows, each with Nelson in the top slot and a rotating cast of artists in support. The first...

The second wave of acts for Black Deer Festival 2023 have been announced, including The Pretenders, Steve Earl and Kurt Vile and the Violators.

Black Deer is an Americana music festival that takes place in Eridge Park in Kent over 16-18 June 2023.

Organisers have just announced the next group of artists to feature on the line up, joining previously revealed acts including Bonnie Raitt and The Teskey Brothers.

New names to the bill are Bear’s Den, Midlake and This Is The Kit.

Stereophonics’ new band, Far From Saints, will also play the June weekend in what will be their first ever festival appearance.

Back in November, the festival announced its new partnership with The Independent, alongside the first wave of acts.

"I’m really looking forward to coming to Black Deer Festival,” said Raitt on her forthcoming exclusive UK festival appearance.

“I hear it’s a real home away from home for American musicians.

The Black Keys, the Black Crowes and Gwen Stefani have been enlisted to headline the 2023 BeachLife Festival, hitting Redondo Beach, California on May 5 to 7.

John Fogerty (performing the music of Creedence Clearwater Revival), Pixies, Tegan & Sara, Modest Mouse, Noah Cyrus, Mavis Staples, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Shaed, the Head and the Heart and many more will also take part when the fest returns to its beach setting.

In addition to Orange County’s own Stefani, the BeachLife Festival brings home a bevy of SoCal acts like Sugar Ray, Circle Jerks’ Xander Schloss,...

End Of The Road is a festival that keeps its promises. The cultured leftfield shindig – where croquet tournaments break out in forest glades and peacocks roam the trimmed lawns of Dorset’s Larmer Tree Gardens, unbothered by the experimental folk, rock, rap and electronic tomfoolery floating across the site – has been promising a weekend headlined by indie giants Pixies and Bright Eyes since 2020. Covid scuppered that event, and post-pandemic travel issues forced the 2021 bill to become more UK-based. But this year, Eotr puts its music where its mouth is at last, with plenty more curveballs thrown in to keep this crowd of discerning alternative music fans pleasingly off-balance.

The opening Thursday night bill is a brain-rattling case in point. On the main Woods Stage, LA’s Sudan Archives sets out to invent jig-hop, interspersing psychosexual ambient raps with ruined snippets of Irish folk played on the fiddle she brandishes throughout.

Mitski released the soaring, melodic Laurel Hell; Bartees Strange jumped genres and blew minds with Farm to Table; Wilco went warm and melodic, if not truly country, with Cruel Country; Wet Leg revived the post-punk revival with their endlessly entertaining self-titled debut, ending up on Glastonbury’s main stage. And those are only some of the highlights of a packed year in indie rock so far, as covered in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music.

To hear the whole episode, with Simon Vozick-Levinson joining host Brian Hiatt for the discussion,...

Kurt Vile and The Violators visited The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Wednesday, offering audiences a taste of Vile’s latest album Watch My Moves with a performance of easygoing single “Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone).”

The singer-songwriter also performed a cover of the John Prine song “How Lucky” — which appeared on Vile’s 2020 EP Speed, Sound, Lonely Kv — for a web-only video.

“Mount Airy Hill (Way Gone)” finds Vile paying homage to the eponymous Philadelphia neighborhood where the musician recorded Watch My Moves — his ninth studio full-length. In a review of the record,...

Jeff Tweedy, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Karen O, Flaming Lips, Animal Collective, and Danielle Haim are among the hundreds of artists, actors, and authors that have contributed new work to For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, a five-volume collection of over 242 recordings inspired by birdsong.

The first volume in the yearlong rollout arrived on streaming services Friday, with Beck, Unkle, Beach House, Kurt Vile, Jarvis Cocker, Jim James, and Mark Ronson with Damon Albarn and Wale among the initial wave of artists in the charitable project. All proceeds from For...

“I blow some minds,” says indie-rock hero Kurt Vile in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now. “But it’s hard to blow everyone’s mind.” And yet Vile is still doing his best to do so, in his distinctly ambling, low-key way, as the trippy greatness of his new album (and belated major-label debut) Watch My Moves suggests.

To hear the whole wide-ranging interview — which goes deep on the album and his whole life and career — press play above, or listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. A few...

The new Kurt Vile album begins, like many great yarns, in medias res. The poet-king of Philadelphia is at an airport somewhere in North America, pondering the prospects of his own mortality and a cold beer, when an epiphany hits him: “Listenin’ to ‘Heart of Gold’/Gonna open up for Neil Young,” he muses over a simple piano figure. “Man, life can sure be fun.” A horn section adds a stately fanfare for the common dude; Vile sings along for a few wordless bars, then calls it a day on the first-thought,...

Hoping to get to the root of his unfinished business with his nineties teenagehood, Tim Heidecker is heading back to high school. The comic actor will release his latest retrospective solo album fittingly titled High School on June 24. The first stop on his journey to the past comes on the record’s lead single “Buddy.”

The “Buddy” music video lands Heidecker in a nondescript shopping strip parking lot that could realistically be anywhere, but for him it’s a call back to the Allentown, Pennsylvania area he adventured as a teen.

Two of singer-songwriter Terry Allen’s Eighties-era releases will be reissued by the indie label Paradise of Bachelors this May: 1980’s Smokin’ the Dummy and 1983’s Bloodlines. Both albums have both been long out of print, having last been reissued as a joint single album in 1997 by Sugar Hill Records, and are currently unavailable on streaming services.

The cult West Texas country singer and mixed-media artist has been enjoying a re-emergence in the past several years as his back catalog has been slowly reissued by Paradise of Bachelors, exposing the...

Dallas Good, singer and guitarist for Canadian rock band The Sadies, died earlier this week, according to the band’s Facebook page. He was 48 and passed while under a doctor’s care for a coronary illness discovered earlier this week, according to reports.

Good was the son of Bruce Good of the bluegrass group the Good Brothers, a Juno Award–winning band that was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004.

In 1994 Dallas and brothe Travis cofounded The Sadies, releasing their first album, Precious Moments, in 1998. The band became a solid member of the alt-country scene of the early 2000s and produced sevral notable albums, including 2010’s Darker Circles, which was on the shot list for the Polaris Music Prize.

The Sadies had collaborations with Neko Case, Neil Young, the Mekons, Kurt Vile, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and other artists, and in 2017 released their latest album, Northern Passages. In January,...