The Top 20 Jeff Tweedy Songs: #7 Heavy Metal Drummer

Thom Yorke, Bon Iver Contribute Songs to Twilight 2

Chris Weitz, director of Twilight sequel New Moon, announced at San Diego’s Comic-Con that two indie rock favorites would be contributing original tunes to the latest installment of the wildly popular tween vampire movies that are more hormones than horror.

Writer of the Week: The Civil Wars

The Civil Wars are the lovely Joy Williams and the fantastic John Paul White. In addition to their solo careers, Joy & JP have begun The Civil Wars out of an unexpected creative chemistry that has been discovered between the two singer/songwriters. To hear some of their music, visit their American Songspace Profile here.

Taylor Swift Wants to Collaborate with Jack White

Country-pop siren Taylor Swift may enjoy the adulation of millions of teens, but her musical tastes are expanding past the bubblegum crowd. She reveals to MTV this week that the artist she would most like to collaborate with on her next album is not Miley Cyrus or the Jonas Brothers, but Jack White.

Who Wants To Finish This John Lennon Song? New Beatles Lyrics Unearthed

The Top 20 Jeff Tweedy Songs: #8 “Jesus, Etc.”

Album: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) Band: Wilco Co-writer: Jay Bennett Key lyric: “Last cigarettes, are all you can get, turning your orbit around.” “Jesus, Etc.” has rightfully become a Wilco “standard.” Offering words of comfort and commitment over a melancholy, constantly-moving chord progression, it plays directly to your deepest emotions. When it was released (as [...]

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Monsters of Folk Announce Fall Tour

Monsters of Folk brings together four unique brands of ingenuity in the form of My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, singer/songwriter M. Ward, and Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis.

Dar Williams Goes In Search of the Promised Land

Country Stars Play the White House

“Something’s going right if there’s a banjo in the White House.” That’s what bluegrass singer/fiddler Alison Krauss had to say after her inaugural show at the Obama residence. On Tuesday, Krauss and her band, Union Station, played to a packed crowd of high school students from Tennessee and Virginia. Country stars Brad Paisley and Charlie Pride filled out the bill in the East Room.