The latest act to emerge from a young Boston scene making rock worth geeking out over again (see Speedy Ortiz and Krill) is Palehound — a.k.a. 21-year-old Ellen Kempner, whose songs morph as unmappably as her emotions. She also plays the hell out of a guitar, but only when necessary to… Source: RollingStone Link: Dry Food

Throughout N.W.A’s brief career, it was Ice Cube who served as the group’s main political firebrand — a shit-starter of the highest order, unafraid to take on systemic injustice and institutional hypocrisy. But on “Animals,” Dr. Dre’s track off his recently released Compton, it’s the Beats mogul and reclusive producer who delivers one… Source: RollingStone Link: DJ Premier […]

Leaving festivals like Woodstock and Monterey aside, there is no more famous gig in rock & roll history than when the Beatles played Shea Stadium, an orange and blue ass pit of a venue in front of 56,000 mostly teenyboppers on August 15th, 1965. It is a gig one might even term… Source: RollingStone Link: Why the […]

CHILMARK, Mass. (AP) — By day, President Barack Obama enjoys the music of such artists as Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and the Bobs — Dylan and Marley. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Obama releases music playlists on Spotify

Metric released “The Shade” — the anthemic first single off their forthcoming sixth album, Pagans in Vegas — back in May, and now the Canadian synth-pop band have debuted a prophetic video for the song. Watch the new clip below. In the video, the band is seen playing on a sun-drenched rooftop. The performance footage… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

“I’ve always been the odd one out in Garbage,” Shirley Manson says matter-of-factly, her Scottish accent slightly emphasizing the word “always.” “Even now, I’m the odd one out. I was never part of the gang. I’m much younger than the guys in the band. I had a different upbringing. They’d… Source: RollingStone Link: Shirley Manson […]

Luke Hemmings, frontman of Aussie emo-gone-pop sensations 5 Seconds of Summer, is embarrassed by all of the songs he produced when he first started writing music. However, he has a happier recollection of one of his initial collaborations with 5SOS bassist Calum Hood. “We were really good friends at school,” he recalls. “Michael [Clifford,… Source: RollingStone Link: How 5 […]

Years before becoming the go-to organist for ZZ Top and Jimmie Vaughan, Mike Flanigin paid the bills as a lead guitarist. He’d play pick-up gigs and weekly shows in Austin, occasionally hitting the road as a sideman for touring groups like the Red Devils. One night back home in Texas, he… Source: RollingStone Link: Stream B3 […]

Yasiin Bey, the rapper and actor formerly known as Mos Def, has surprise-released an experimental new track, “Basquiat Ghostwriter,” inspired by police brutality and the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat. The track finds Bey weaving abstract imagery over noise samples, jazz-punk drums and whirring synthesizers – a sonic collage assembled from recordings made… Source: RollingStone Link: Yasiin Bey […]

David Gilmour has kept a pretty low profile since wrapping up his On an Island tour in 2006. But The Endless River, last year’s surprise, mostly instrumental Pink Floyd farewell album, gave the singer-songwriter some momentum that led him to finally complete his upcoming solo disc, Rattle That Lock, out September 18th. The LP is a loose concept… Source: RollingStone Link: David Gilmour […]