Luke Bryan’s annual beach party now has an official swan song. The country superstar’s new tune, “Spring Breakdown,” commemorates the end of his Spring Break shows in Panama City Beach, Florida. For the past seven years, he has thrown huge beachside concerts that have seen crowds of some 200,000 people…. Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Luke […]
After making her name with a string of home-recorded releases — boasting excellent titles like Milo Goes to Compton — Los Angeles songwriter Colleen Green takes her wispy, lovelorn vignettes into a real studio on I Want to Grow Up. She kisses off her twenties with fuzz-pop guitars and breathy sighs in… Source: RollingStone Link: I Want […]
Skrillex and Diplo’s first album together has one purpose: moving bodies. But that simple quest has led the duo to a wonderfully trim set that’s as forward-sounding as any dance release in recent memory. Though they begin most of its 10 tracks in familiar territory, they quickly push on to… Source: RollingStone Link: Skrillex and […]
A one-time lightning rod for black-metal scene politics after they dispatched a manifesto at an academic conference and released an album on an indie-rock label, Brooklyn art-metal band Liturgy have returned with 57 minutes of immersive, ecstatic experimental rock that almost defies genre. While the churning ice-pick guitars and blastbeat drums of black metal are still a… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Liturgy's […]
“Check your egos at the door” read the sign on the front door of A&M Studios in Los Angeles on the night of January 28th, 1985. Producer Quincy Jones had placed it there because dozens of the nation’s biggest singers were walking through that door, and he had exactly one… Source: RollingStone Link: 'We Are […]
The Replacements will embark on their Back By Unpopular Demand tour on April 9th, and a week after Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson hit the road, Rhino will reissue the influential band’s entire officially released catalog as the eight-disc box set The Complete Studio Albums 1981-1990 on April 14th. The collection will… Source: RollingStone Link: Replacements Ready […]
“It’s not what you do when people are looking that matters; it’s what you do when people aren’t looking,” Kristian Bush said as he introduced his powerful new song, “Walk Tall,” at the Grand Ole Opry recently. “I write songs for a lot of different reasons. This one I wrote… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Kristian […]
In January, the first recording by Elvis Presley – a 1953 acetate disc featuring “My Happiness” and “That’s When Your Heartaches Begin” – sold at auction for 0,000 to “an undisclosed buyer.” It turns out the secret purchaser wasn’t just any deep-pocketed Elvis fan: Jack White has revealed that it was his winning bid that… Source: RollingStone Link: Jack White […]
Musical siblings Josephine and Alexandre de la Baume, along with director Francesco Carrozzini, team up with Swiss luxury label Bally for a truly, well-fashioned narrative. Source: Yahoo Music Link: The Story Behind Singtank's New Music Video
A couple of months after Brian Wilson releases his upcoming album, No Pier Pressure, the singer-songwriter will hit the road for a summer tour. Wilson’s former Beach Boys bandmates Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin, who recorded the No Pier Pressure song “Sail Away” with him, will join him on the… Source: RollingStone Link: Brian Wilson […]