For the past few years, The Flaming Lips have made headlines for strictly non-musical reasons. They’ve done one-off collaborations with pop stars, they set a Guinness World Record, they’ve done … Read more
Rolling Stone reports that Jack White and the Lumineers have been tapped to perform at this year’s Grammy Awards. They join Mumford & Sons, fun., The Black Keys, Elton John, and … Read more
Europe has its fair share of big festivals, from Glastonbury to Rokslide, but Spain’s Primavera Sound Festival may beat them all out. The Spanish festival’s lineup was announced yesterday, and … Read more
The Mars Volta, the prog-rock titans who formed in the aftermath of the respected ’90s punk band At The Drive-In, have broken up. The news came via a series of … Read more
As our writer Melissa Caruso covered extensively in a previous issue of Elmore, licensing is a big business for musicians, especially with record sales dropping each year. However, companies have … Read more
Previously, we had told you about the upcoming album from indie-rock behemoths Vampire Weekend. They had already given us a taste of the new album with “Unbelievers,” a new track … Read more
Thirty years later, Prince still finds ways to surprise us. The singer has been dormant since 2010, when he released 20Ten and shut down his website, declaring that “the Internet is over. … Read more
Last year, the Avett Brothers burst out from the burgeoning Americana movement to become one of the most popular bands in the world. This year, many of us will get … Read more
Elvis Costello has had his fair share of collaborators. Some of them, like Nick Lowe, are right up his musical alley; others, like Allen Toussaint and Burt Bacharach, pushed the … Read more
So much for that rumor: Mick Jagger has now definitively squashed rumors of a Rolling Stones appearance at this year’s Coachella festival. The singer told the NME that, despite several rumours linking … Read more
