On March 18th, One Direction played a show at Hong Kong’s AsiaWorld Arena. The crowd was relatively small, but the South China Morning Post described a scene of “mass hysteria” that began even before the band took the stage. The set was filled with catchy tunes and the boys were… Source: RollingStone Link: One Direction […]
Part feminist intellectual, part Scandinavian dreamer, Jenny Hval lives in a world littered with evocative juxtapositions. On her fifth album (and first for indie tastemakers Sacred Bones), the Oslo singer-songwriter balances Björkian levels of vocal mysticism with experimental spoken-word stylings that recall Laurie Anderson. Apocalypse, girl is a shift toward… Source: RollingStone Link: Apocalypse, girl
Three summers ago, rap found a new center in Chicago. Lil Durk joined artists like Chief Keef, Lil Reese and Young Chop as their unfiltered street rhymes went from local to national fame in a blink. Durk’s major-label debut sticks to the mood of melodic exasperation that’s carried throughout his… Source: RollingStone Link: Remember My […]
Alternative rock icon Beck on Thursday hinted he was ready to release new music and signaled he would return to his ironic side. The image shows Beck in an abstract, carnival-like atmosphere, with flashing objects around his face that resemble small billiard balls and twisted sticks. Beck has released 12 studio albums that have almost […]
Jim Ed Brown, the mild-mannered crooner who spent a half-century at one of US country music's most prestigious venues, the Grand Ole Opry, died Thursday. Brown died from cancer at a hospital in Franklin, Tennessee, near Nashville, according to Webster Public Relations, which represented him. The singer won crossover success in 1959, topping both the […]
Jim Ed Brown, whose easygoing vocal style led to a seven-decades-long career that included Grand Ole Opry membership and 2015 election into the Country Music Hall of Fame with his sisters Maxine and Bonnie Brown, died Thursday at Williamson Medical Center in Franklin, Tennessee, after a lengthy battle with cancer…. Source: RollingStone Link: Country Music […]
“Does a man have to fight all his life only in death to take flight to the skies?/Warmongers vie to take my throne, no respect is ever shown.” The lyrics from the song “Massacre of the Saxons” could easily be mistaken for something by Iron Maiden, yet they came from the… Source: RollingStone Link: Christopher […]
Carly Rae Jepsen will release her new album Emotion on August 21st via Schoolboy Records/Interscope, and has plans to drop a new single and video for “Run Away With Me” in July. The LP will be be available for pre-order starting June 23rd and will come with instant downloads of previously released albums cuts,… Source: RollingStone Link: Carly […]
Last week, Melvins founder Buzz Osborne wrote a scathing review of the new documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck for The Talkhouse, criticizing the film as being “90 percent. . . bullshit.” Now the musician has reinforced his stance on Brett Morgen’s acclaimed project in an interview with Riff You,… Source: RollingStone Link: Buzz Osborne […]
Multiple documents tracing the rise of Sean Combs’ Bad Boy Records and the Notorious B.I.G. — including a contract featuring Christopher Wallace’s rare signature — are among a number of music-related items now up for auction via Paddle8. Another auction highlight is a handwritten note from Elvis Presley with a setlist for his Pearl Harbor… Source: RollingStone Link: Read […]