The epic annual campfest known as the Eurovision Song Contest is set to spread its pageant of artistic excellence and international rivalry to new and distant shores this year. For the first time since its 1956 debut, fans across the world will be able to take in the pinnacle of European… Source: RollingStone Link: Eurovision 2015 […]
PC Music is the brainchild of London producer A. G. Cook, one of the minds behind last year’s online hit “Hey QT,” a supercatchy wad of synthetic bubblegum sung by a virtual starlet marketing a fake energy drink. That same aesthetic is all over this collection of singles (most of them offered… Source: RollingStone Link: PC Music […]
This six-piece Rhode Island punk act gets its unabashedly Marxist-feminist message across in ways that are both fun and furious. The group’s first full-length album flies by in a boisterous, intoxicating rush, 24 minutes of saxophone-laced noise and radical slogans. On the hilarious “Tall Boys,” lead singer Victoria Ruiz threatens… Source: RollingStone Link: Full Communism
In the years since Kurt Cobain’s death, countless bands have recycled his poppiest ideas. Metz are the rare act to follow through on Cobain’s gnarliest punk-rock instincts instead. On their second LP, the Toronto trio take their sound in an even less polished direction than on their 2012 debut — think… Source: RollingStone Link: II
Growing up pop-punk is hard to do. Tom DeLonge’s trials have been particularly public, with ongoing rifts with his Blink-182 bandmates and a foray into overindulgent space rock with Angels and Airwaves. On this solo set, DeLonge tries to find a new way forward, culling from unreleased songs originally intended… Source: RollingStone Link: To the […]
Now this is utopia: electronic dance music with exploratory dynamics and cosmic-R&B vocal glow. Todd Rundgren was already making records like this at the height of glam — his 1973 astro-rock suite, A Wizard, a True Star; the 1975 spiritual-prog epic, Initiation — so he sounds at home with his Norwegian… Source: RollingStone Link: Runddans
One-third of the Wu-Tang Clan have teamed up with producer Adrian Younge for a moody, new Spaghetti Western–influenced track, “Return of the Savage.” The track will appear on the sequel to Ghostface Killah’s 2013 LP Twelve Reasons to Die – 12 Reasons to Die II – and features appearances by the… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Ghostface, […]
Titans of rock (the Rolling Stones, the Who), country megastars (Shania Twain, Kenny Chesney) and pop’s newest icons (Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran) are taking over stadiums, arenas and amphitheaters across North America this summer. The season is shaping up to be one of the biggest in biz history, and we have the ultimate guide… Source: RollingStone Link: Summer 2015's […]
Founded in 1985 with a lineup that included Queen, Rod Stewart, AC/DC and James Taylor, Rock in Rio made its United States debut last weekend, bringing in bands like Metallica and No Doubt for two nights of rock & roll in southern Nevada. This past Friday and Saturday, the festival went pop,… Source: RollingStone Link: Rock in […]
For the final installments of her Backyard Sessions in support of Happy Hippie Foundation, Miley Cyrus performed faithful covers of the Turtles’ “Happy Together” and Paul Simon’s “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.” Miley takes on the classic tracks by herself, interpreting both songs somberly before showing off her voice on the… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]