UPDATE: Taylor Swift has addressed the hacks on her Twitter and Instagram accounts in two posts on Tumblr, assuring fans, “Twitter is deleting the hacker tweets and locking my account until they can figure out how this happened and get me new passwords. Never a dull moment.” The pop star did her best to make light…… Source: RollingStone Link: Taylor Swift's […]
Blink-182 are once again in a state of chaos. Word came out yesterday that Tom DeLonge had left the band and would be replaced with Alkaline Trio guitarist/singer Matt Skiba for the handful of upcoming gigs they have on the books. Tom responded on Instagram, saying he “never quit the band.” …… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Is […]
Pete Wentz is rarely at a loss for words – just look at some of those old Fall Out Boy song titles for proof. But ask him about the band’s unlikely ascendance to the top of arena playlists around the country, and he struggles to find an explanation. “It’s not a…… Source: RollingStone Link: How […]
Scottish rockers Primal Scream, who last played a short run of California dates in 2013, will return for a slightly longer North American tour in May. The trek, which begins with an appearance at Austin Psych Fest, includes dates in the south and northeast. The group last put out an album…… Source: RollingStone Link: Primal […]
For the first time ever, the third-largest city in the U.S. will host a major festival devoted to country music. Chicago’s Windy City LakeShake, headlined by Dierks Bentley, Florida Georgia Line and Brad Paisley, will run from June 19th to the 21st at FirstMerit Bank Pavilion at scenic Northerly Island. Also slated to…… Source: RollingStone Link: Dierks […]
If nothing else, Future User, the new project from Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave bassist Tim Commerford, has the support of a few professional athletes. In the band’s first video, tennis great John McEnroe subjected himself to waterboarding, and in their latest (premiered above), Lance Armstrong delivers a harsh message while a…… Source: RollingStone Link: Lance Armstrong […]
Run the Jewels played La Recyclerie, a decommissioned train station in Paris that has since become a community space, on their European trek this past winter. The location of the concert, captured on video as a “Soirée de Poche” and put on via La Blogothéque, was kept a secret until…… Source: RollingStone Link: See Run […]
Jessica Pratt’s songs almost seem to bend time to her will. The West Coast folk singer-guitarist doesn’t need much more than her delicately played nylon-string guitar and mezzo-soprano voice to give her second album an uncanny impact. Pratt’s jazz-steeped singing and rich guitar harmonies can recall early Joni Mitchell, or…… Source: RollingStone Link: On Your […]
Like Dorian Gray with a blowout, nu-metal holdovers Papa Roach have made their latest album sound like an eerie time capsule from the early 2000s. Between the airy synth breakdowns copped from old Linkin Park LPs on songs like “Face Everything and Rise” and “Never Have to Say Goodbye” to…… Source: RollingStone Link: F.E.A.R.
With younger, fresher soulmen like Miguel, Frank Ocean and the Weeknd on the scene, Ne-Yo has been left grasping for relevance. In the intro to the deluxe edition of this sprawling album, he confusingly describes Non-Fiction as “complete fiction” about “real characters going through real things.” The music, sadly, can…… Source: RollingStone Link: Non-Fiction