Brandon Flowers performed a handful of new songs from his upcoming solo LP The Desired Effect at a hometown gig at the Bunkhouse Saloon in Las Vegas earlier this week. But as Stereogum points out, amidst the new material, the Killers frontman snuck in a delightful cover of Robert Palmer’s “Simply Irresistible.” Considering he operates… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
DENVER (AP) — The trials of young people brought to the U.S. before they are old enough to know what it means to be illegal are the themes of an album being released Thursday featuring Shawn King of the Denver-based group DeVotchKa. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Denver, LA musicians find universal stories behind headlines
Step Brothers is one of those rare movies that gets funnier every time you watch it. That’s probably why it received extremely mixed reviews when it came out, but has slowly become a cult classic – and widely considered to be one of the funniest movies of the 2000s. DVDs don’t sell… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: […]
The Mavericks threw a late-night dance party on Conan Wednesday night, giving the winter blues a much-needed sendoff with the impossibly catchy “Summertime (When I’m With You),” from the band’s latest LP, Mono. The Latin-fused big band sound of the group, which includes members Raul Malo on vocals and guitar, Eddie… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
A white policeman tussles with an unarmed black man in the video for Run the Jewels and Zack de la Rocha’s new video, “Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck),” echoing the recent high-profile police-versus-civilian deaths including Michael Brown and Eric Garner. After brief cameos by the three rappers, the clip’s… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]
UPDATE: “Bitch Better Have My Money” is now available on iTunes. Rihanna has released “Bitch Better Have My Money,” the second single off her forthcoming, as-yet-untitled eighth album. After teasing the song’s cover art on Instagram, the singer released sneak peeks of the track’s intro and outro exclusively on the lip-synching app Dubsmash. Listen to a… Source: RollingStone Link: Rihanna […]
If you walk down the Venice Beach boardwalk in L.A., you’ll find Todd Ray in his element: A 21st century P.T. Barnum standing on the pavement, chirping into a bullhorn and offering passerbys a glimpse at his two-headed turtle. It’s just one of the pets making up his collection of… Source: RollingStone Link: How Todd […]
Passion Pit mastermind Michael Angelakos finds clarity in the thick of a raving crowd in the new video for “Lifted Up (1985),” the first single off the synth-pop outfit’s forthcoming LP, Kindred. The clip opens with an overhead camera moving downwards, trying to keep Angelakos in frame as he’s jostled by a horde of revelers…. Source: RollingStone Link: Passion […]
Every afternoon for the past three weeks, Jason Isbell has been showing up to the Sound Emporium around 1 p.m. The routine is usually the same: He’ll park in the Nashville building’s back lot, walk past the bowls of complimentary Cheez-Its and biscuits and greet his bandmates inside Studio A. Then,… Source: RollingStone Link: In the […]
“Did you hear that gunshot?” asks Brian Kelley, one half of Florida Georgia Line. “My neighbors are outside shooting today.” Sure enough, there are a few loud bangs as Kelley talks, but they don’t seem to faze him. After all, just a few weeks earlier, he and his FGL bandmate Tyler… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]