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Shelley and Nathan Salsburg take on 'Superwolves' track 'Watch What Happens' while BPB and Matt Sweeney give 'Stay on My Shore' a creepy coating

Bonnie Prince Billy   New Partner The Brute Choir More Brother Rides I Am A Cinematographer Greatest Palace Music appears to be a strangely-packaged greatest-hits collection, stuffed nicely some of the most affecting songs Will Oldham's penned, "Ohio River Boat Song" and "Horses" among them. But while his own fan...   more » club picked these songs, here they've been wholly re-recorded by Oldham under his currently-preferred moniker Bonnie Prince Billy (though he continues to record under his own name when he feels like it) since retiring the Palace name and its permutations in the la...

Rolling Stone Podcast ‘Songs in the Key of Death’ to Explore True Crime Tales Behind Classic Murder Ballads Hear Sad13’s interpretation of the early 20th-century song “Delia,” which will be the subject of the first episode By Jon Blistein's Most Recent Stories Nevermind Media has announced a new podcast, Songs in the Key of Death, which will explore the intersection of true crime and music by delving into the stories that inspired classic murder ballads. The show will premiere June 16th and be hosted by writer and critic Courtney E. Smith, who will examine some of the mos...

Superwolves — their first together since their debut, Superwolf, released in 2005 and passed around feverishly by acolytes ever since — they cover two songs. One is a spare take on the brutally lonesome “There Must Be a Someone (I Can Turn To),” written by Vern Gosdin and made semi-famous by The Byrds a half-century ago. The other is “I Am a Youth Inclined to Ramble,” a traditional song that can’t be traced back to any specific date but finds its footing in the present day via the Irish folk musician Paul Brady’s arrangement. It tells the story of a yo...

New music by Manchester Orchestra, Marianne Faithfull and more Marianne Faithfull, "She Walks in Beauty" (BMG) The elevator pitch for this album doesn't do it justice. The veteran singer, known for '60s cuts such as "When Tears Go By," reads Romantic poetry (from Byron, Keats, Shelley and the like) over ethereal soundscapes by Nick Cave cohort Warren Ellis. Sounds self-indulgent, right? It's anything but. Faithfull's weathered yet still-exquisite voice draws each degree of emotion from these classic lyric lines, and Ellis' production proves sublime. This is a serene bit of beauty, a few momen...