Kristi Kates | Author
The Killers Exercise Caution
April 11, 2020
The Killers have a new song on deck called “Caution,” their first release since leaving their hometown of Las Vegas. Citing the likes of Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, and Bruce Springsteen as influences on “...
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Don’t Worry About Ellie Goulding
April 4, 2020
Ellie Goulding has just produced a new music video in collaboration with musician and music producer Matthew Tyler Musto, aka blackbear, for her single “Worry About Me.” blackbear actually appears in the video as a set of twins, cavorting with...
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Moore Returns with New Album
March 28, 2020
Singer and actress Mandy Moore (of TV show This is Us) has released her first album since her 2009 release, Amanda Leigh. Th...
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Eilish. Billie Eilish.
March 7, 2020
Grammy-winner Billie Eilish (along with her writer-producer brother Finneas, who’s a solo artist in his own right) will be the featured artist for the theme song to the next James Bond movie, No Time to Die. The movie and song will hit thea...
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Electric Forest Goes Back to the Future
Feb. 29, 2020
Electric Forest Festival organizers are thinking backward for this year’s 10th anniversary festival performance roster, bringing back a shortlist of artists who were featured in the first Electric Forest Festival and its precursor, Rothbury. Among the returning acts...
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Swift, Vincent, Go-Go’s On the Big Screen
Feb. 22, 2020
Three female-focused rockumentaries are making their way to various outlets. The first, Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana, is already streaming on Netflix. The Lana Wilson-directed doc, which was co-produced by the team behind 20 Feet From Star...
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Where to Eat Now
Feb. 15, 2020
Please be seated for these abbreviated versions of the restaurant reviews we’ve featured since our last RestauranTour issue. Bon Appetit!
TUCKER’S – Northport
Tucker’s of Northport is a big, friendly restaurant first, and a...
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Maroon and Meghan Hit the Road
Feb. 15, 2020
Maroon 5 will be careening around the U.S. on tour this spring and summer, with some of the biggest shows in the band’s career to date. The mix of stadium and arena shows kicks off May 30 in Chula Vista, California, with opening acts Meghan Trainor ...
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Gabrielle Aplin – Dear Happy – Never Fade Records
Feb. 15, 2020
Pop singer Aplin returns with her third album, which stays pretty much in her usual modus operandi: strong vocals and a common melodic tone throughout. This is a very produced, calculated set, where you can almost see the plotting of “how to make a hit single” — but that...
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Fall Out Boy Falling Into Tour
Feb. 8, 2020
Fall Out Boy is now in outlets with its second greatest hits collection for Island Records, dubbed Greatest Hits: Believers Never Die – Volume Two. This collection was just released and serves as promo for the band’s upcoming global tour, which will k...
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Lawson Rollins – True North – Infinata
Feb. 8, 2020
Lawson Rollins – True North – Infinata
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Blossom's New Bloom
Feb. 1, 2020
English indie-popsters Blossom recently spoke to the press about the long-awaited follow-up to their 2018 album, Cool Like You, and it’s been confirmed that the recording process is complete, and the album is already at the mastering stages. The first sampl...
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Chuck Daar – Ovr Dou (Remastered) – 5th World
Feb. 1, 2020
This impressive reissue of multi-instrumentalist Daar’s album (which also includes the equally worthy remix album Dou Ovr and two smaller EPs) pulls you directly in to his swirling genre-blend of SoCal-meets-Texas sounds, recorded back in the early 2010s under the aliases Nova Spies...
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Tame Impala Sending You a Valentine
Jan. 25, 2020
Tame Impala has just announced the upcoming release date for its newest album, Slow Rush. The set will hit outlets on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day, and includes the band’s previously released singles “Borderline” and “It Might Be Time.&r...
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Miles Davis – The Lost Quintet – SNR
Jan. 25, 2020
Davis’ “lost quintet” was quite a quintet: Davis, along with Chick Corea, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, and Wayne Shorter. While the five musicians never got into an actual recording studio together, two recordings from their late ’60s European tour were captured ...
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Still Searching
Jan. 18, 2020
We are now surrounded by the evidence.
The most significant and consistent temperature increases in the last 2,000 years have occurred in just the last century. The 10 hottest years globally have all occurred since 2005, and the five hottest were the la...
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Original Broadway Cast – Jagged Little Pill – Atlantic
Jan. 18, 2020
Unexpected but true: A Broadway show has been adapted from Alanis Morrisette’s top-sellingJagged Little Pill album. This is the cast recording from that show (now running on Broadway), and it includes all of the songs from the original album, plus some additional Alanis tunes perfor...
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Styles Walks a Fine Line
Jan. 18, 2020
Harry Styles has released his sophomore album, Fine Line, which departs thematically from his 2017 debut album. The 2017 set, simply called Harry Styles, dug deep into ’70s rock and folk-inspired music; the new collection of tunes leans more into i...
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The Milk Carton Kids – The Only Ones – MCK Records
Jan. 11, 2020
Mixing up folk/bluegrass/Americana with a hint of pop, The Milk Carton Kids have snagged Grammy nominations and plenty of critical acclaim for their twisty-turny musicianship and powerful harmonies. While they dallied with a full band setup last album, here the...
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Jan. 11, 2020 Singer-songwriter and acid-green-haired diva Billie Eilish recently hung out with former Detroiter Jack White, at White’s own Third Man Records Nashville outpost. Eilish performed a short live show in the Blue Room, and the set, like most performanc...
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Eilish and White Team Up for Live Record