Babymetal’s self-titled debut was the best-selling Japanese album in America last year, and the viral sensations (whose “Gimme Chocolate!!” music video has racked up over 26 million views on YouTube) continue to blaze their unique path in 2015 with an official Stateside reissue, which is available digitally now and will… Source: RollingStone Link: Babymetal: What […]
The third annual Life Is Beautiful Music & Art Festival will invade downtown Las Vegas September 25th through 27th, and this year the fest will welcome headliners Stevie Wonder, Kendrick Lamar, Duran Duran and hometown rockers Imagine Dragons. Hozier, Kid Cudi, Weezer, Death Cab for Cutie and the Killers’ Brandon… Source: RollingStone Link: Stevie Wonder, […]
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit were heading to Orlando when they heard about B.B. King’s death last Friday morning. “B.B. King wasn’t just a famous blues singer,” Isbell wrote in an early morning tweet. “He was a truly incredible guitar player. Didn’t give a damn about chords. You can’t sing… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Jason […]
Pete Townshend celebrated his 70th birthday Tuesday with the release of the politically charged new track “Guantanamo” that will be featured on his upcoming solo compilation Truancy: The Very Best of Pete Townshend. As evidenced by the title, the new song is about the American military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “Down in… Source: RollingStone Link: Pete Townshend […]
Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. is far from the buttoned-up type – sartorially, his band is still best known for their tight jeans and leather jackets. So while it might seem odd that the 35-year-old is moving into formal men’s fashion, his collection of ties – a collaboration with Elliot Aronow of… Source: RollingStone Link: Albert Hammond […]
With Zedd behind the boards, even Tom Waits could make a feel-good summer hit: Everything the 25-year-old German producer handles, from his own 2013 smash “Clarity” to Ariana Grande’s “Break Free” last year, turns to candy-rave gold. True Colors, Zedd’s second LP, includes songs about love, breakups and seizing the… Source: RollingStone Link: True Colors
You know the feeling when your friend falls apart because she didn’t get invited to the cool party tonight, while you explain there is no cool party tonight? Finally, a punk-rock song to address this trauma: “There Is No Function Stacy,” just one of the gems on Joanna Gruesome’s fantastic… Source: RollingStone Link: Peanut Butter
Las Vegas newcomer Shamir works disco into a state of undress on his first full-length album. He isn’t operating in the same romantic vein as, say, Sylvester, one obvious predecessor — just delivering a healthy dose of real talk, set to clean cuts of vintage Chicago house grooves. On “Vegas,” the… Source: RollingStone Link: Ratchet
“Are we human or are we dancer?” Brandon Flowers once asked with the Killers. But as he proves on his excellent new solo album, he sounds most human exactly when he’s dancer. The Desired Effect is easily his strongest work since the Killers’ 2008 keeper Day & Age, and it’s… Source: RollingStone Link: The Desired […]
Even if he hadn’t been the mod-firebrand voice of the Jam, Paul Weller would be a British rock institution, an icon of high standards still challenged by the adventure in his nation’s Sixties and Seventies revolutions. Weller’s 12th solo album is a robust binding of the experimental tangents on 2008’s… Source: RollingStone Link: Saturns Pattern