Once again, we talked to 10 of the hottest artists who are climbing the charts, breaking the Internet or just dominating our office stereos. This month: Marmozets’ mathy punk fits, George Ezra’s indie-folk croon, YP’s impassioned Chicago hip-hop, Tanya Tagaq’s avant-rock take on Inuit throat singing and more…. Source: RollingStone Link: 10 New Artists You Need […]
Guitarist Tom Morello and System of a Down singer Serj Tankian have joined forces to pay tribute to late Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Randy Rhoads, who helped usher classicism into heavy metal before his accidental death in 1982, with a reverent cover of “Crazy Train.” The track will appear on an…… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Tom […]
In the video for her previous single, “Break the Rules,” Charli XCX raised an impressive amount of hell: hijacking a school bus, donning lingerie and crashing a high school prom dance. But the singer has gone even crazier with the clip for “Doing It,” as she and guest vocalist Rita Ora…… Source: RollingStone Link: Charli XCX […]
When New Order went on tour this past summer — three years after reporting that they were done for good — the band played a single new track amid a set heavy on classic hits. The band had worked on the song, titled “Plastic,” between the gigs that were supposed to be their last; and now…… Source: RollingStone Link: Inside New […]
Last December, Madonna was forced to rush out six songs from her upcoming LP Rebel Heart after over a dozen early mixes of the album’s tracks leaked online well before the singer’s 13th album was even announced. While most hacking perpetrators remain anonymous and avoid arrest, Israeli investigators arrested one suspect they believe is responsible for the…… Source: RollingStone Link: Israeli Man […]
Eight years after the inaugural Live Earth spread environmental awareness and voiced climate change concerns around the globe, co-founders Al Gore and Kevin Wall will revive their eco-friendly worldwide festival in 2015 in the lead-up to this year’s UN climate change conference in Paris. Wall and Gore announced the details of…… Source: RollingStone Link: Pharrell, Al […]
“Let me tell ya something about Jerry Lee Lewis, ladies and gentlemen: I am a rock and rollin’, country-and-western, rhythm and blues-singin’ motherfucker,” the music icon known as “The Killer” told the Grand Ole Opry audience on January 20th, 1973. And with that, Lewis broke Opry Rule Number Two: no…… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Jerry […]
Björk has released her new album, Vulnicura, on iTunes just one week after announcing it in a handwritten note and two months ahead of its original March release date. The surprise early release may have been prompted by a leak of the album, which Stereogum reports surfaced over the weekend. In a note on Facebook,…… Source: RollingStone Link: Bjork […]
This three-disc 25th-anniversary package gives the Pixies’ surreal 1989 breakthrough the monument it deserves. Along with the original LP, B sides and Peel Session performances illuminate the frenetic process leading up to classics like “Debaser” and “Gouge Away.” Best of all are the unreleased 1988 demos: Recorded in a basement…… Source: RollingStone Link: Doolittle 25
Musically, this deluxe vinyl set is everything Daft Punk’s 2013 triumph, Random Access Memories, wasn’t: primarily electronic beats aimed at dance floors – specifically, Bercy Arena, in the group’s hometown, Paris. Recorded on the duo’s 2006-07 tour, a landmark of stadium-pop showmanship, Alive 2007 proves the music equaled the spectacle……. Source: RollingStone Link: Alive 2007 […]