Next week, Ghostface Killah will release Twelve Reasons To Die, the soul-rap concept album he made with the producer and composer Adrian Younge. Last night, he stopped by Late Night With Jimmy Fallon to perform the album track “I Declare War,” and he had a pretty amazing cast of supporting players with him: the Roots, [...]

Cat Power played Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night. Backed by ?uestlove and “Captain” Kirk Douglas of the Roots, Chan Marshall performed “Manhattan” from her most recent record Sun, released in September via Matador. Check out the performance below, and in case you missed it, check out the official v...

A record label attempting to promote a new posthumous Jimi Hendrix collection faces obvious problems, since they can’t book him on late-night shows or whatever. (Not that posthumous Hendrix collections ever have much trouble selling.) But someone in some marketing department had the bright idea, by way of shilling the new Hendrix colle...

Iron And Wine have a new album called Ghost On Ghost coming out soon, and the two songs we’ve heard from it, “Lovers’ Revolution” and “Grace For Saints And Ramblers,” are both loose and jazzy things, far removed from the rootsy, wistful folk-rock that made Same Beam an indie-household n...

According to the official website of NIGHTWISH mainman Tuomas Holopainen, the keyboardist has eight songs "roughly ready" for his Life And Times Of Scrooge McDuck project. "Only two months until the demo studio," he says. Holopainen recently talked about the roots of the project: "It was back in 1999...