On the latest episode of The Donaghy Files, a 30 Rock spinoff of animated webisodes, Alec Baldwin's character finds himself tasked with throwing together a Super Bowl halftime show but unable to pay…   Read Story »

First came "Lucky Now," and now Ryan Adams has released the second video from Ashes & Fire, his excellent return-to-form 2011 album. In the "Chains Of Love" video, Adams sings the song on a city…   Read Story »

Ryan Adams has often been photographed wearing Ratt T-shirts, and as it turns out, he wasn't just being cute with it. On a recent visit to NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, Adams broke out a gorgeous…   Read Story »

So many covers today! Here's another one: Ryan Adams, playing live at Boston's Orpheum this weekend, doing a lovely solo-piano cover of Galaxie 500's classic "Blue Thunder," a sort of holy text for…   Read Story »

On last night's episode of the Late Show With David Letterman, Ryan Adams came through to perform the exact same lovely solo-acoustic version of "Lucky Now" that he's already done on a few other…   Read Story »

If Hüsker Dü or Sugar were before your time, do yourself a favor and dig up their old catalogs. Both venerable bands were fronted by Bob Mould, and an all-star assortment of music luminaries…   Read Story »

Now that Ashes & Fire, his excellently understated new album, is out in the world, Ryan Adams can get back to the business of being a rich weirdo. His latest venture is a parodic black metal-themed…   Read Story »

If you pre-ordered a deluxe edition of Ashes & Fire, the pretty-great new Ryan Adams album, you got one particular extra: A Flexi-Disc copy of a gentle acoustic ramble called "Petal In A Rainstorm."…   Read Story »

One day a year just isn't enough for the people behind Record Store Day, the annual celebration of independent vinyl retailers. So for the second year running, the Record Store Day people have…   Read Story »

Right now, Ryan Adams is on tour behind his excellent new album Ashes & Fire. And at a recent San Francisco show, he and opener Jason Isbell, the former Drive-By Truckers member, got together onstage…   Read Story »