In the documentary Black Sabbath: Paranoid, guitarist Tony Iommi said the idea for “Planet Caravan” started as an impromptu jam session in the studio. Iommi began with the track’s signature riff, ...

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Welcome to the ninth Songs of the Week of 2024. It was a somewhat slow week for new songs, perhaps because a lot of the music industry is at SXSW, but there were more than enough that impressed us.

Midway through Vampire Weekend‘s night at the Hollywood Bowl on Wednesday, singer-guitarist Ezra Koenig paused to remind, or perhaps inform, fans in the packed amphitheater of the night’s special ...

Welcome to the eleventh Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Marc Abbott, Mark Moody, Matt the Raven, Scott Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries helped me decide what should ...

INDIO, CA − Justin Bieber fans got plenty of modern and throwback hits to listen to during his Weekend 2 headlining performance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Roughly a third of his ...