2015 continues to be the Year of the Soundtrack on the Billboard 200 as Pitch Perfect 2 became the third soundtrack to reach Number One after debuting atop the charts with 107,000 total album sales. While the sequel already made more at the box office in its first week than the… Source: RollingStone Link: On the […]
Spotify announced Wednesday that it has added video content and new playlists in its latest update, as it works to maintain its footing in the ever-expanding streaming market. The service will now offer video clips and audio shows, including content from Disney, ABC, NBC, ESPN, BBC News, Comedy Central and MTV,… Source: RollingStone Link: Spotify […]
Loveable lowbrow rock & roll revivalists Low Cut Connie reimagine the early-Seventies Stones as South Jersey keg-party killers, or the New York Dolls in Converse sneakers. The New York crew’s third album features a sticky-fingered roof raiser about a “modern dude” who dresses up “like Tina Turner, ’69” and shakes… Source: RollingStone Link: Hi Honey
With “Raise ‘Em Up” continuing its reign as the most popular song on country radio, Keith Urban — who teamed up with Eric Church for the chart-topping Fuse single — is adding another duet to his catalog. This time, he’s the special guest, not the frontman, playing guitar and banjo on… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Keith […]
As Depeche Mode’s chief songwriter — and the man behind the lyric “words are very unnecessary” — Martin Gore has been peppering the synth-pop torchbearers’ records with icy instrumental stopgaps since their 1981 debut. Now he’s assembled MG, an album of nothing but wordless electro experiments, a collection of 16 short, swooping… Source: RollingStone Link: MG
If only every rock singer were as unapologetically confident as Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale. In the past, she’s sung lascivious lyrics like “I get off on you getting off on me” and “Love bites, but so do I” with all the self-consciousness of a Russell Brand character. Now, on “Apocalyptic” — the… Source: RollingStone Link: Into the […]
Jamie Foxx’s music has always come with the effortless charisma you’d expect from an Oscar winner. His fifth album balances bumptious party fare (the Pharrell-produced “Tease,” the Eighties R&B glide “Baby’s in Love”) with dark-tinted slow jams like “You Changed Me,” where he goes croon-for-croon with Chris Brown, and “Text… Source: RollingStone Link: Hollywood
A$AP Rocky is continuing his psychedelic journey nearly two weeks after premiering the first official single from his upcoming album, At.Long.Last.A$AP. The Harlem rapper dropped his latest track, “LSD,” along with a disorienting music video bringing its trippy theme to life. The Dexter Navy-directed video introduces its substance-influenced mode with a warm… Source: RollingStone Link: A$AP […]
When it was announced in late April that Glenn Beck was giving Andrew W.K. a talk show on the Blaze, his radio-TV network, both sides of the political spectrum cocked an eyebrow. After all, a cagey conservative and left-leaning hard-rocker make for strange bedfellows. But Beck is long-removed from his perch… Source: RollingStone Link: Glenn […]
The newest volume in Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series of books about important albums is on Devo’s 1980 mainstream breakthrough Freedom of Choice, written by Evie Nagy, a staff writer at Fast Company. While most people associate Devo and Freedom of Choice with songs like “Whip It” and “Girl U Want,”… Source: RollingStone Link: 'That's Pep!': […]