Not long ago, the great Nick Cave took over the ornate London venue Alexandra Palace to record Idiot Prayer, an evening of solo-piano performances. At first, Idiot Prayer was a pay-per-view livestream, but it's about to become a live album and a film. For the occasion, Cave turned many of his Bad Seeds and Grinderman…

Last year, the veteran psychedelic folk sprite Devendra Banhart released an album called Ma, which does not have anything to do with Octavia Spencer befriending hard-partying teenagers. Since then, Banhart had assisted on the Mykki Blanco single "You Will Find It" and covered T. Rex's "Scenesof." Today, Banhart announced his intention to release...

In April, the longtime Saturday Night Live music producer Hal Willner died from complications of COVID-19 at the age of 64. Before his death, Willner was working on his dream project: AngelHeaded Hipster, a tribute album dedicated to the music of glam gods T. Rex and their late mercurial frontman Marc Bolan. The compilation is…

Before he died of COVID-19 last month, the longtime Saturday Night Live music producer Hal Willner was working on putting together a tribute compilation dedicated to the songs of Marc Bolan and T. Rex. This fall, that album, entitled AngelHeaded Hipster will finally come out. It's set to feature a strange, fascinating collection of artists:&...

A few weeks ago, Saturday Night Live sketch music producer Hal Willner passed away from coronavirus. For many years, he had been working on a star-studded T. Rex tribute album, in the same vein as many other compilations that Willner had put together over the last couple decades honoring various artists. Today, that compilation is…