News
Music Radar Piece Charts Dave Grohl’s Unlikely Songwriting Origins
“I don’t know conventional scales. I don’t know the names of the chords that I’m making.” Dave Grohl’s distance from formal training became a creative engine.
Editor
Julian Costa
News
Boards of Canada Preview New Album Inferno at Intimate Los Angeles Listening Session
After 13 years of silence, Boards of Canada invited 300 listeners into Barnsdall Gallery Theatre for a first encounter with Inferno, a memory-soaked session that felt more like a long-lost transmission than an album preview.
News
Neil Diamond on the Art of Songwriting and Why He Compares Himself to Metallica
In a 2008 interview, the singer-songwriter discussed the emotional honesty behind his hits, the origins of “Cracklin’ Rosie,” and why he felt a kinship with heavy metal.
News
Murder Trial Against Ex-Lostprophets Singer Ian Watkins Discharged, New Trial Set for 2027
The current proceedings ended without a verdict. A retrial will begin February 8, 2027.
News
Soundgarden Confirm Work Continues on Final Album With Chris Cornell
The surviving members have given a rare update on the unfinished recordings, calling them essential to both the band’s and Cornell’s legacies.
News
Olivia Rodrigo Releases New Single "the cure" From Third Album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love
The track arrives with a video set in a cardboard hospital, and the album is due June 12 via Geffen Records.
News
Paul McCartney Returns to the Ed Sullivan Theater to Close Out the Final Late Show
The last episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ended with Paul McCartney switching off the lights at the venue where the Beatles made their U.S. television breakthrough in 1964.
News
Veeze Releases Surprise Mixtape ‘Y’all Won’
The Detroit rapper drops an unexpected project, featuring a video with Playboi Carti and Lil Baby, while his sophomore album remains unscheduled.
News
Dylan Called It the Greatest Song. The Story Behind “Wichita Lineman” Endures
A Music Radar feature revisits the Oklahoma highway vision that gave Jimmy Webb his most enduring ballad, and Bob Dylan’s stark assessment of the result.
News
J Mascis and Mike Watt Cover Each Other’s Bands on New Split
Two SST labelmates trade songs from the early ’90s, reaching for deep cuts instead of the obvious swap.