Tina began covering music professionally in the ’90s as a reporter for the Village Voice in New York. A journalist for more than two decades, she has worked as staff editor and freelance writer covering entertainment, art, pop culture, food, wine, spirits, health, travel and more. Throughout it all, music has always been a constant in her life… and work. Her words have appeared in Billboard, Men’s Journal, Wine Spectator, and other local and national newspapers, magazines, and online publications. Based in New York City, Tina is currently working on her first book and can be found at @tbeves on Instagram.
A museum patron is fixated on “famed” broadcaster Tubbs Tarbell and the history of artists who have passed through the Whispering Pines Studios. Making her way through the Whispering Pines Museum, pursuing all its memorabilia, her true intentions are eventually revealed in the video for “Love Me Like You Used To,” off Lord Huron’s fourth More
Nick Murphy had to get into his own space. Locked inside a small studio room, the Melbourne-born artist found headspace, and musical sphere, one he hadn’t revisited since his 2014 debut Built on Glass. Insulated from the outside world in January 2020, Murphy went to work in his small New York studio, at some points More
Gibson has launched Gibson Records and has entered into a strategic label partnership with BMG for its first album release of Slash’s new album with Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators in 2022. Headquartered in Nashville, Gibson Records is the evolution of the music initiatives the brand has built throughout the past several years, including collaborations More
John “Hutch” Hutchinson, who appeared in the original demo of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” in 1969 and collaborated with the artist on several projects throughout the 1960s and ’70s has died, following a long illness. His death was confirmed by the Bowie estate. “Ours [sic] thoughts are with the family and friends of John Hutchinson More
In celebration of the one-year anniversary of folklore, Taylor Swift surprised fans with a gift: the alternate “original” version of the bonus track “The Lakes.” “It’s been one year since we escaped the real world together and imagined ourselves someplace simpler,” said Swift on her social media pages. “With tall tall trees and salt air. More
I’m pulling the laces up out of my shoes / Color me gold when I used to be blue / I’m digging deep to try something new sings Josh Hogan, relinquishing the hold of a darkened year and finding new light in the sun, the surf and the lightness of summer on “Turn It Around” More
There was something in the air. It was the stark, collective sentiment of Smallpools’ singer Sean Scanlon and guitarist Mike Kamerman as they began piecing together “Life of the Party” in Nashville in 2020 just after the tornado had hit the city and prior to the pandemic literally shutting down the world. Foreshadowing the aftermath More
Locked down at home in Australia in 2020, and fresh off a world tour, Sam Hales successfully relocated all his equipment into his house in Melbourne, creating a studio “cockpit” in a spare room, and continued working on something he started years earlier: The Jungle Giants’ fourth album Love Signs. “It was a pretty slow More
There’s something to be said about productive observations. For the past 15 to 20 years, BC Jean and husband Mark Ballas, who go by the name Alexander Jean, have carefully watched the inner workings in the studio but never imagined learning it all. Working around the pandemic lockdown, the couple turned one of their spare More
In January of 2021, I’m With Her’s Aoife O’Donovan reached out to her friend, producer Joe Henry (Rhiannon Giddens, Bonnie Raitt), and what initially began as a collaboration of a handful of songs turned into many. “What transpired from that first conversation was a lot of new music—a lot,” says O’Donovan. “I’m so excited to More
Paul McCartney steps inside and dances his way through retro hotel halls and rooms, and psychedelic scenes, but something is different. In the video for “Find My Way,” featuring Beck, who recently remixed the McCartney III track for follow-up McCartney III Imagined (Capitol Records), McCartney takes on a digitally de-aged appearance, thanks to artificial intelligence More
When Rachel Dean and Tim Paul Gray first met in 2015, all the elements were set for something beyond their respective projects. Combining their musical pasts, songs, and newfound love, the couple formed Starlight Cleaning Co. three years later and began crafting their self-titled debut, a narrative of their desert lives, and union, and the More
