Maxwell Stern of Signals Midwest and Timeshares has collaborated with members of Ratboys, Modern Baseball, Into It. Over It., and more on a new John Prine-inspired single for charity. Into It. Over It's Adam Beck played drums and produced the whole thing, MoBo's Ian Farmer played bass, Mother Evergreen's Evan Lortisch played Fender Rhodes piano,...

Beck is the latest artist to get in on the self-isolation covers game. Over the weekend, he shared a clip of him covering "I Am The Cosmos," the title track from Big Star member Chris Bell's only solo album, which was released in 1992 but recorded in the mid-'70s before his death. Beck has covered…

Remember the Grammys? Music's Biggest Night feels like it happened about six bajillion years ago, but no, it wasn't even three months. If you can reach that far back into your memory, you might recall that there was a slight flap over Usher covering Prince's "Little Red Corvette" with Sheila E. and with a non-singing,…

Last year, in a massive feature, the New York Times reported on a massive musical-history loss that had been kept largely secret. In 2008, a massive fire at the Universal Studios Florida lot raged through and devastated a warehouse where Universal Music Group had been keeping decades' worth of master recordings. Many thousands of those…

Last night, Sean Penn hosted the 10th annual gala for his charity CORE, which started after the 2010 Haiti earthquake and aims to help out an area after it is struck by a natural disaster. The event took place at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles.