Florence and the Machine’s 2012 MTV Unplugged set was startling. Here was Florence Welch’s magnificently wayward choir-girl voice laid bare, shorn of cathedral reverb and synth swaddle, singing hits and covers (including Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness”) backed by wooden instruments and candles. The band’s first LP since that… Source: RollingStone Link: How Big […]
Diplo has spent the past few years as the guy Madonna, Beyoncé and Justin Bieber dial up when they want their hits to have a little next-level studio science. But it’s his electro-reggae project Major Lazer that really lets him unleash his inner beat freak. The crew’s third album is… Source: RollingStone Link: Peace Is […]
This Brooklyn duo had one of the best indie hits in recent memory with 2012’s “All of Me,” a beautifully sculpted nugget of sad-Eighties dance pop. On their second album, singer-guitarist Eric Emm and multi-instrumentalist Jesse Cohen sound like they burn prayer candles to the moany ghosts of OMD and… Source: RollingStone Link: Highlights
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell met in 1974, but it took them until 2013’s Grammy-winning set Old Yellow Moon to make a record together. The original duets on their follow-up range from heartbreak (Crowell’s superb “No Memories Hanging ‘Round”) to social consciousness (the bluesy “The Weight of the World”). Harris’… Source: RollingStone Link: The Traveling […]
Part of an exploding network of L.A. visionaries, Kamasi Washington is the sax-wielding jazz guru on recent masterpieces by Kendrick Lamar and Flying Lotus. Now he’s made one of his own — a three-disc debut on FlyLo’s label with a 10-piece band, plus choir and strings. To be sure, it’s a… Source: RollingStone Link: The Epic
Meet the winners of this year’s All Other Band Names Suck contest: the boy-girl losercore duo Elvis Depressedly. Mathew Lee Cothran and Delaney Mills turn floor-hugging moods into lavish pop miniatures, evoking the Mountain Goats times the Left Banke. After a string of excellent low-fi releases, New Alhambra offers the… Source: RollingStone Link: New Alhambra
The Italian fest will fete the late pop star with a screening of a Lifetime biopic and a selection of her films, including ‘The Bodyguard.’ Source: Yahoo Music Link: Ischia Global Film and Music Festival Sets Whitney Houston Retrospective
The Italian fest will fete the late pop star with a screening of a Lifetime biopic and a selection of her films, including ‘The Bodyguard.’ Source: Yahoo Music Link: Ischia Global Film and Music Festival Sets Whitney Houston Retrospective
Shot by Brett Ratner, the video showcases Carey in all her diva glory as she drinks champagne and daubs herself with her very own brand of perfume. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Mariah Carey Gets Matched With 'Empire' Star Jussie Smollett in "Infinity" Music Video
Zac Brown Band also joins the second wave of performers set to entertain country fans June 10. Source: Yahoo Music Link: CMT Music Awards: Eric Church, Jake Owen, Sam Hunt Added to Performers Lineup