The mysterious cover of Joy Division’s 1979 debut Unknown Pleasures – a black-and-white visualization of pulsar data that looked like digital mountain peaks – is the subject of a new, in-depth Scientific American article. The magazine traced the origins of the “computer-generated illustration” to its first publication around 1970. A few… Source: RollingStone Link: Joy […]

Metallica’s James Hetfield has faced his battles with addiction. In 2001, the singer entered rehab during the recording of the heavy metal band’s St. Anger to combat against “alcohol and other addictions”; Hetfield’s struggles at the time were documented in the film Some Kind of Monster. Since kicking his habits,… Source: RollingStone Link: Metallica's James […]

There’s a certain romance that surrounds the Mavericks. Maybe it’s their Latin-tinged party sound. Maybe it’s Raul Malo’s enveloping tenor. Or maybe it’s just because somewhere right now, babies are no doubt being made to their music. Whatever the reason, the Miami-born, Nashville-based group is arguably the Last Great Romantic… Source: RollingStone Link: The Mavericks […]

Few rock & roll bands have been so transformed, so immediately, by a new voice. Even fewer are ready – and open – to such extreme renewal. Founded in late 1965 in a San Francisco just at the dawn of its own socio-chemical metamorphosis, Big Brother and the Holding Company… Source: RollingStone Link: Fricke's Picks […]

That clichéd and mostly erroneous saying on every reality talent show, “Everyone’s a winner,” is actually true for Emily West. After placing second on America’s Got Talent last year, the Iowa native has taken a major career rebound. She inked a deal with Sony Music Masterworks for a new album,… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Emily […]

Nearly 22 years after Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), Ghostface Killah remains as prolific as ever. In 2014, he appeared on a pair of albums – the Wu-Tang Clan reunion LP A Better Tomorrow and his 36 Seasons collaboration with the Revelations – and the Fishscale rapper shows no signs of slowing down… Source: RollingStone Link: Stream Ghostface […]

Hollywood’s elite gather this weekend to celebrate the best in film for 2014, as the 87th Academy Awards take place in Los Angeles on Sunday night. Throughout the long history of the Oscars, country music has made its presence known relatively few times. The 1980s was one of the more fertile… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: […]

Fans of the Cadillac Three will have to wait a few more months for the long-awaited follow-up to 2013’s Tennessee Mojo, but that hasn’t stopped Jaren Johnston and company from trotting out some new songs in concert.  During a live taping of CMT’s Listen Up series on January 20th, the trio bounced… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

At its early-Nineties peak, shoegaze foursome Ride hit listeners with a potent blend of noise and melody. Last night at London’s 100 Club, the band’s first gig in 20 years emphasized the latter, with singer-guitarists Mark Gardener and Andy Bell giving the acoustic treatment to anthems such as “Like a Daydream”… Source: RollingStone Link: Shoegaze Legends […]

Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Will Butler will release his first solo album Policy on March 10th, and to prep for the event, the brother of Win will sit down with The Guardian each morning starting February 23rd to create a week’s worth of songs pulled from the newspaper’s headlines, which The Guardian will then… Source: RollingStone Link: Arcade Fire's […]