After releasing their heavily anticipated album A Deeper Understanding in 2017, subsequently touring behind it through 2018, and along the way becoming bigger than plausibly expected even following the success of Lost In The Dream, the War On Drugs have kept pretty quiet through 2019. Maybe that means something's on the horizon for 2020? In&...

"It’s about time I was asked to curate Meltdown darling, don’t you think?!”Grace Jones will curate next year's Meltdown Festival Grace Jones has been announced as the curator for the 2020 Meltdown Festival at the Southbank Centre. Next year’s festival will run from June 12-21 and will see Jones join an illustrious list of names w...

A total of 24 songwriters are up for induction into the 2020 classOutKast, R.E.M. and Patti Smith are up for induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2020. A total of 24 performing and non-performing songwriters were nominated for the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The list of nominees was published by Associated Press on November 5. Other nota...

What do you think of Moz's latest stunt? Morrissey Record shop experts have said that Morrissey risks “ripping off” his fans by selling records that he’s signed himself by the likes of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Patti Smith and Iggy Pop. The former Smiths frontman made headlines earlier this week after selling the records for�...

Patti Smith has teamed up with her long-time friend and legendary rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith to release Before Easter After, a limited edition book featuring many unseen photographs of Smith from the mid- to late-1970s. Priced at $700 and limited to 1,300 editions, signed by both Smith and Goldsmith, the book is a hefty investment. But b...