Last night, Beck headlined the second night of Riot Fest in Chicago. During his encore, he brought out Gary Numan to perform his late '70s hit "Cars." Numan had played the festival earlier that day on the heels of his solo album from last year, Savage (Songs from a Broken World). Beck has…

Crusty, eccentric 68-year-old Tom Waits does things on his own schedule, when he feels like it. Before this morning, we hadn't heard a new recording from Waits since February of 2016, when he and Lucinda Williams covered a Blind Willie Johnson song. But today, Waits has showed up on a new track. Once again, it's…

Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels On A Gravel Road turns 20 this year, and the musician has just announced that she'll embark on a special anniversary tour this fall to mark the occasion. She'll play the album in full and then follow it up with a selection of songs from her long career, all backed by…

There are a lot of festivals that happen later in the year, but often it feels like a last gasp for the summer season by the time we get to early August. Stateside, we have two remaining primary ones, Lollapalooza and Outside Lands, the former of which usually has one of the more straightforward lineups…

Over the last five years, the British quartet Wolf Alice have built up the kind of career arc that feels like the beginnings of a storied career. After a couple initial iterations, the group cohered into a lineup consisting of frontwoman Ellie Rowsell, guitarist Joff Oddie, bassist Theo Ellis, and drummer Joel Amey before launching…