Even with my never-ending obsession with music from the early ’80s, it’s a pretty rare opportunity when I get the chance to write anything about my favorites from that era. Last week, one of those rare opportunities popped up. I called Jim Kerr, the frontman of the Simple Minds — i.e., the man who sang [...]

“Stay With Me” is one of the most Bryan-Adams-y songs on Ryan’s new highly Bryan-esque self-titled LP. It is not a cover of the Sam Smith song; in fact, there’s a good chance Adams has never heard Smith’s “Stay With Me” and doesn’t know who Smith is. Anyway, the live...

With the way Ryan Adams churns out music, it makes sense that he would be able to come up with a decent song right on the spot. That’s exactly what he did at San Francisco’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass concert last weekend. Towards the end of his set he thanked a bunch of people in the [...]

Pre-sales for live dates start tomorrow (October 8)

Ryan Adams has been touring with a full band lately, and nobody has been complaining. But the man does some of his best work when he’s full-on solo acoustic, and that’s basically the version of him we got on Conan last night. On the show, Adams sang the softly devastating “My Wrecking Ball,” probably the [...