Archive | February, 2015

Dave Grohl Appointed Record Store Day 2015 Ambassador

Dave Grohl proved himself to be a keen music historian with his Sonic Highways HBO docuseries. Knowing the importance that the local, independently owned record shop has on both music fans and future generations of rockers, the Foo Fighters frontman has signed on for the role of the Record Store Day 2015 Ambassador. In a… Source: RollingStone Link: Dave Grohl […]

"Juicy Wiggle"

Some cite LMFAO’s bottom-shelf novelty hits as everything that’s wrong with today’s music. “Juicy Wiggle” (from the group’s Redfoo) makes the case that pop has been shamelessly silly all along, attempting an unlikely fusion of contemporary EDM and Fifties rock. This is how the hop would have sounded if your… Source: RollingStone Link: "Juicy Wiggle"

"The Best Room"

Eight years have passed since Modest Mouse put out a new album, and if the urgency and absurdity of the Pacific Northwest crew’s new single is any indication, frontman Isaac Brock must be crawling out of his skin. It’s a frenetic onslaught of paranoia, silliness, endlessly elastic rhythms and swirling… Source: RollingStone Link: "The Best […]

"False Hope"

Sleepless, lonely Laura Marling paints a bleak picture: Women go crazy, her neighbors beg for help through the walls and she hears animals dying — it’s like a folk-rock Walking Dead, right down to the chilling strings that swell around the song. By the time she reaches the final verse, she… Source: RollingStone Link: "False Hope"

"Black Sun"

Death Cab For Cutie’s new album is their first without founding member Chris Walla, and their first since frontman Ben Gibbard divorced Zooey Deschanel. So when Gibbard sings, “There’s a dumpster in the driveway of all the plans that came undone,” you know the sad realness is really real. But when defiantly raw… Source: RollingStone Link: "Black Sun"

Kanye West Gets Deep With Ryan Seacrest: 11 Things We Learned

Kanye West recently spoke with Ryan Seacrest and co-host Ellen K for an illuminative, wide-ranging radio interview. The chief point of discussion was the rapper’s decision to go onstage during Beck’s Album of the Year acceptance speech at the Grammys and then fake him out. West clarified his comments about Beck… Source: RollingStone Link: Kanye West […]

"Sarah"

“Every day, I’ll make promises that plague Sarah’s heart/So I can watch her fall apart,” indie-rock wunderkind Alex G sings. On this doleful bedroom-pop nugget (written a few years ago, before his Internet-driven career took off), he turns his passive-aggressive warbling into bright, blurry poetry that anyone could love — except maybe… Source: RollingStone Link: "Sarah"

A$AP Rocky Gets Trippy, Hits Laundromat in New Video

A$AP Rocky hits the streets in the kaleidoscopic new video for “Lord Pretty Flacko Jodye 2.” The clip finds the rapper and his crew hitting up a party and dancing on a street corner, interspersed with woozy shots of dark cityscapes. The minimalist track – little more than a squealing synth… Source: RollingStone Link: A$AP Rocky […]