Australia’s Music Industry in Crisis
Posted in: Music Features
As the COVID-19 pandemic places a strict ban on gatherings and several territories close their borders, Australia’s music industry is in meltdown.
‘It’s a Clusterf-ck’: Musicians Struggle to Get Pandemic Assistance
Posted in: Music FeaturesThanks to a byzantine benefits structure, many musicians who had a patchwork income are unable to get the unemployment checks they need
How the ‘Red Dirt’ Music Scene Is Trying to Survive the Pandemic
Posted in: Music FeaturesWhy country artists Randy Rogers, Wade Bowen, and Reckless Kelly are leaning on their bank accounts, side businesses, and their dedicated fans
How the Killers Started Over Again
Posted in: Music FeaturesBefore ‘Imploding the Mirage,’ they’d never made an album without founding guitarist Dave Keuning. It proved to be much more difficult than they imagined
Music Piracy Is Going Old School in the Age of COVID-19
Posted in: Music FeaturesIllegal streaming activity fell in March — but people are flocking back to torrent sites, new data suggests
How a Top Producer Is Rethinking Collaboration in the Age of Quarantine
Posted in: Music FeaturesTwice a week, Ricky Reed can be found on YouTube, swigging wine and writing songs in real time
Sonic Youth Continue Archival Dig with 1993 Live Album ‘Blastic Scene’
Posted in: Music Features“It catches us in a good place in our history. Just post the Nirvana mania of ’90 to ’92 and our moving away from the overamped thrum of that into more stripped-down, linear and, possibly, in…
Why Metallica’s Lars Ulrich Is Obsessed with Rage Against the Machine Right Now
Posted in: Music FeaturesThe drummer is hanging with family, watching movies and Jimmy Kimmel, and thinking charitably in isolation
Afrobeat Pioneer Tony Allen: 9 Tracks That Show His Drumming Genius
Posted in: Music FeaturesWe survey Allen’s wide-ranging career, from early classics with Fela Kuti and Africa ’70 to later team-ups like the Good, the Bad and the Queen,
After the Kent State Massacre, ‘Ohio’ Spoke to the Country — and Helped Save CSNY
Posted in: Music FeaturesCrosby, Stills, Nash and Young recorded one of their most enduring songs, a response to the National Guard opening fire on a college campus. But the band itself was on the verge of collapse
