A sliced-up samurai is relegated to a life of watching TV and recalling his glory days in the bizarre, charming and oddly heartbreaking new clip for Thundercat’s “Them Changes.” Directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada, the clip opens on two samurai locked in a fierce battle in a garage to the tune of Thundercat’s… Source: RollingStone Link: Samurai […]
Sometime after the release of their sixth studio album, 2001’s The Tired Sounds of the Stars of the Lid, Austin-borne drone duo Stars of the Lid quietly, patiently moved from obscurity into semi-obscurity, renown as the most acclaimed ambient musicians since the heyday of Brian Eno. The three-LP opus featured… Source: RollingStone Link: How Stars […]
(Reuters) – Pop singer Taylor Swift, British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, R&B singer Beyonce, and DJ-producer Mark Ronson lead the nominations for the MTV Video Music Awards, the cable network said on Tuesday. Swift, whose "1989" was the best-selling album of 2014, earned nine nominations for the awards to be handed out on Aug. 30. Sheeran […]
Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” and “Blank Space” music videos earned the pop star a whopping nine nominations for this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, with Ed Sheeran and Beyoncé trailing with six and five nods, respectively. The trio will compete for the Moonman in a number of categories, including Video of the Year, where Swift’s star-studded, Kendrick… Source: RollingStone Link: Taylor […]
Late in 1949, Eddy Arnold recorded a song called “Take Me in Your Arms and Hold Me,” an “answer” record to a massive hit he had two years earlier called “I’ll Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms).” Although “Take Me” was Arnold’s 12th… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: See […]
Roger Waters will reissue his 1992 LP, Amused to Death, on July 24th, and Rolling Stone has the exclusive on the updated music video for the remastered album’s “What God Wants, Part 1.” The clip features Waters and guitarist Jeff Beck, who appears on a handful of Amused to Death tracks, performing the… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Roger […]
A new animated movie, Scooby-Doo! and Kiss: Rock & Roll Mystery, finds the self-proclaimed “hottest band in the world” playing a gig for the cartoon crime solvers and an angry flying robot head. In this exclusive clip from the film, streaming above, a stadium full of makeup-wearing fans watch the… Source: RollingStone Link: See Kiss […]
Jerrod Niemann may not have decided on a title yet for his upcoming fourth album, the follow-up to last year’s High Noon, but as he and producer Jimmie Lee Sloas were putting the project together, they had a clear sense of its vibe. “We talked about music that is inspiring us… Source: RollingStone Link: Jerrod […]
US pop star Miley Cyrus has announced she'll be hosting this year's MTV VMAs, set to air live on August 30. Cyrus won the award for Video of the Year for her hit single "Wrecking Ball" at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, a year after she made headlines for a VMAs performance that involved […]
Dieter Moebius, a pioneer of electronic music whose art background led him to develop ambient soundscapes, died Monday. Michael Rother, his partner in the band Harmonia, announced Moebius's death on Facebook. "He will be dearly missed by all of us," Rother said, without revealing a cause of death. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Electronic music innovator […]