Tom Waits’ First New Music in 15 Years Is a Chilling, Macabre Protest Song

Tom Waits‘ first new original music in 15 years is “Boots on the Ground,” a vividly gruesome indictment of wars both foreign ...
Consequence

Massive Attack and Tom Waits Release New Single “Boots on the Ground”: Stream

Massive Attack and Tom Waits team up on the politically-charged single “Boots on the Ground,” pairing Waits’ gravelly vocals ...
Boxing Scene

Thomas ‘Cornflake’ LaManna does it his way in swan song win

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey – If this truly was Thomas “Cornflake” LaManna’s farewell fight, he went out on the most entertaining terms possible. Bleeding heavily over his left eye and having been ...
BBC

Composer of the Week

Donald Macleod talks to British composer, pianist and conductor Thomas Adès. Music featured: Hotel Suite from Powder Her Face Gefriolsae Me, Op 3B Arcadiana Chamber Symphony …but all shall be well ...
AOL

Paul McCartney’s ‘Wings at the Speed of Sound’ Songs Ranked Worst to Best

Paul McCartney‘s determinedly democratic Wings at the Speed of Sound arrived on March 26, 1976, as Wings moved forward with the same lineup for the first (and, turns out, only) time. It had been quite ...
American Songwriter

3 Songs Rob Thomas Wrote for Willie Nelson in 2002

“Willie Nelson, without a doubt,” said Rob Thomas when asked by Sammy Hagar about his musical hero in 2020. Thomas called Nelson “sharp as a tack,” an “amazing guy,” and a “true troubadour,” and also ...
BBC

Composer of the Week

Donald Macleod talks to Thomas Adès about the music that first propelled him to stardom, while still in his twenties - the composer’s first opera, Powder Her Face. They also discuss Adès's early years ...
The Daily Reflector

Key Oscar moments: Paul Thomas Anderson and Amy Madigan wins, outstanding songs and sad goodbyes

This Oscar cycle’s heavyweight battle is finally over. The politically charged action comedy “One Battle After Another” just managed to outmuscle Ryan Coogler’s musically driven vampire thriller ...
The Telegraph

Why BTS’s ‘No. 29’ has no sound: The meaning behind Arirang’s most mysterious track

While tuning into it on their music apps, listeners were met with nothing but silence and probably a faint sound of bells. Surely, many initially assumed the app had crashed, or their headphones had ...
American Songwriter

3 Folky Songs That Defined the 1970s Laurel Canyon Sound

Ever heard of the Laurel Canyon sound? Laurel Canyon refers to a particular district in the Hollywood Hills that had a bit of a “heyday” in the 1970s when it came to the singer-songwriters that came ...
Consequence

Olivia Rodrigo Teases “Experimental” New Album Filled with “Sad Love Songs”

Olivia Rodrigo appears to be on the precipice of announcing a new album. Earlier this week, painted walls with her initials were spotted in cities worldwide, and now, details of the project have been ...