“Not ready to die, die, die/Not ready to fold,” Scott McCaughey, the guitarist and ringleader of this Pacific Northwest collective, sings in “My Generation,” a dirty-glam original that turns the title of the Who’s 1965 single into a fighting-senior moment. The 12 songs here first appeared in a limited-edition 2014… Source: RollingStone Link: Dungeon Golds

In his first album since the breakup of meta-rap trio Das Racist, the group’s Himanshu Suri has stopped hiding “behind the humor and absurdity.” That doesn’t mean he doesn’t still have great punchlines (“They borrow/Not from my borough/I’m ‘thorough’ like Henry David”). Heems’ attempt at an “honest” record basically means… Source: RollingStone Link: Eat Pray […]

“You can’t spend much time in Southern California without being influenced by Mexican-American culture,” says Sam Outlaw, whose debut album takes its cues from both sides of the border.  Due out this summer on Six Shooter Records, Angeleno pairs Outlaw — a former ad salesman who’s spent the past five years… Source: RollingStone Link: Listen […]

The first solo album by the younger Butler sibling in Arcade Fire is less than half the length of his band’s 2013 Reflektor. Policy is also more playful, a montage of impulses — crunchy rock, apocalyptic electro-disco, solo-John Lennon balladry — that come like whiplash. There are strains of Butler’s day job… Source: RollingStone Link: Policy

“There have been a couple of times I’ve been drunk and attacked pretty viciously,” says Isaac Brock. “But there’s one I replay in my head.” Describing one of his low points of the past decade, Brock recalls the night his band Modest Mouse played a show in Nottingham, England, in May… Source: RollingStone Link: Modest Mouse […]

Miranda Lambert is a Texan by birth, but an Oklahoman thanks to her marriage to Blake Shelton. So when she played Oklahoma City last Friday night, Lambert was right at home — even welcoming her other half to the stage to perform a surprise, acoustic duet on Shelton’s hit “God… Source: RollingStone Link: See Blake […]

With Maroon 5’s smash “Sugar” climbing to Number Three on the Hot 100, Adam Levine and Company added a little more firepower to the track by inviting Nicki Minaj to sweeten up the V single’s remix. The Pinkprint rapper contributed a new, albeit brief opening verse to the track, but she makes her presence felt… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Nicki […]

Jessica Chastain and Salma Hayek got into the tunes at Hedi Silmane’s latest offering of punk-fueled clothes. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Paris Fashion Week: This is the Band That Did Saint Laurent's Cool Catwalk Music

Luke Bryan is one of Nashville’s top stars, but he can’t stop himself from skipping town for just one more Spring Break. His seventh and final entry in the seasonal series pairs five new tracks with a few first released in 2014. The 38-year-old makes it all seem romantic, even… Source: RollingStone Link: Spring Break . . . Checkin' […]

Jimi Hendrix plays a fluid, bluesy guitar solo on an instrumental R&B song called “Station Break,” which he recorded during his 1965 stint with Curtis Knight and the Squires. The song is streaming on The Daily Beast. The two-and-a-half-minute track, which has never previously been released, will appear on the upcoming release,… Source: RollingStone Link: Jimi Hendrix […]