“Under the Surface” is a track from American post metal legends Neurosis’ sixth album, Times of Grace. It was released as a single with a video when the album came out, only the band’s second. Continue reading »
Feb 092026
Feb 092026
The story of Weezer‘s Pinkerton is legend at this point: lead singer and primary songwriter Rivers Cuomo didn’t really know what to do with the success of their debut and tried to write a rock opera. When he gave up on that idea, he went walkabout to Harvard and eventually turned these songs into the very different Pinkerton. It infamously didn’t sell and Weezer returned to their original sound on their third album but then Pinkerton became every Weezer fan’s favourite album. Continue reading »
Feb 062026
As this year’s Super Bowl draws ever closer, some of the commercials are beginning to be teased out. For our purposes, one of the more interesting ones is Lady Gaga covering the theme song for “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” The cover will appear in a commercial by Rocket and Redfin and while we don’t have the actual commercial to share, we do have a short behind-the-scenes documentary recording of the song.
“Mister Rogers was so clearly someone that stood for something, and it’s powerful to think of what he would say right now,” says Gaga in the short documentary, adding that it’s “kind of a special song to revisit at this time.” Meanwhile, frequent collaborator Benjamin Rice says in the piece that the song is “a simple melody with really complex chords. That combination, it’s hard to nail that, and it does — it’s a perfect song, in that way.”
(If you just want to hear the song, jump ahead to 1:52 in the video.)
Feb 062026
The John Martyn Project’s first album was one of our Albums of the Year in 2025. The six expert musicians who comprise the occasional collective captured the energy and innovation of their long-standing live show and put it on disc, providing an exquisite rendition of songs that sound great with a rapt audience in front of them.
For The John Martyn Project Volume 2, the band has expanded their vista and ambition, taking the listener on a journey through a wider range of Martyn’s capabilities, but, much more challengingly, they attempt to capture the moods of a man well-known for his extremes of emotion. It is an amazing journey.
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Feb 062026
Post Malone led an all-star band featuring Guns n’ Roses‘ Duff McKagan and Slash, producer Andrew Watt and Red Hot Chili Pepper Chad Smith in a musical tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and all the other musicians who have died in the past year at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night. Continue reading »
Feb 032026
Though it was her first single, and she later had higher-charting hits, “Don’t Know Why” remains Norah Jones’ signature song. It wasn’t actually written by Jones, but rather by her guitarist Jessie Harris, who had actually recorded it three years earlier. However, it’s Jones’ version that the world knows. Even though it didn’t chart that high, it felt fairly ubiquitous when it came out (and, of course, there was Starbucks, where Jones’s debut Come Away with Me was on sale seemingly forever). It conjures up a certain aesthetic, for sure. Continue reading »