Kindred spirits Steve Gunn and William Tyler played the first night of what was supposed to be a co-headlining tour at the Bell House in Brooklyn last night. BrooklynVegan reports that everyone at the gig — which included Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley — was required to provide proof of being fully vacc...

Last year, longtime Saturday Night Live music producer Hal Willner died of complications from COVID-19 at the age of 64. When he passed away, Willner had just finished working on an all-star T. Rex tribute album; that compilation, AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs Of Marc Bolan And T. Rex, came out last year, a few months after Willner’s ...

Back in October, after a year of buildup, Matt Berninger of the National released his debut solo album, Serpentine Prison. As he told us in an interview last fall, Berninger initially approached producer Booker T. Jones about recording a covers album together, but the project eventually morphed into a collection of originals. They had accumulate...

Hot Chip are on a roll. The album they released last year, A Bath Full Of Ecstasy, was one of their best. This year, they followed that up by putting together a Late Night Tales mix that featured their cover of the Velvet Underground's "Candy Says" alongside a couple new songs. But Hot Chip are,…

Miley Cyrus revived her Backyard Sessions series for a new MTV Unplugged performance this weekend. She and her masked band, dubbed "the Social Distancers," played a whole bunch of covers: Pearl Jam’s "Just Breathe," the Cardigans’ "Communication," Britney Spears’ "Gimme More," Nico’s "These Days," and the Velvet Underground’s "Sweet Ja...