Currently on the road warming up stadiums and amphitheaters for Luke Bryan, Randy Houser will launch his own trek in the fall. Dubbed the We Went Tour, after his current single, the tour marks the vocalist’s first ever as an arena headliner. A longtime favorite in Nashville, revered for an honest… Source: RollingStone Link: Randy […]
Last year didn’t go the way Future planned. The Atlanta croon-rapper’s much-ballyhooed, underperforming Honest failed to make him the Trap King of Pop, and his relationship with R&B star Ciara fell apart. To regroup, Future went back to the strategy that drove his 2011 come-up: flooding the market with mixtapes,… Source: RollingStone Link: DS2
On his English-language debut, Latin superstar Prince Royce aims to prove himself the crossover heir to Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias. The Bronx-born singer, 26, pulls out all the stops, enlisting an army of producers and guests like Snoop Dogg, Pitbull and Jennifer Lopez. But Double Vision lacks focus, failing… Source: RollingStone Link: Double Vision
Chelsea Wolfe is an L.A. singer-songwriter with a taste for black veils and other unabashed goth affectations. But her fifth LP shows she’s much more than a gimmick. Her voice is more confident than it’s ever been, whether it’s bathed in industrial noise on the opener, “Carrion Flowers,” or backed… Source: RollingStone Link: Abyss
Ashley Monroe refuses to choose sides in the feud between commercial country and the “alt” variety. Her third LP imagines a 2015 mainstream by reflecting what it once was — Loretta and Dolly in the Sixties, sure, but also Emmylou in the Eighties and Reba in the Nineties. Witness the title… Source: RollingStone Link: The Blade
“Here we come from another time,” Chuck D raps on Public Enemy’s 13th studio album. In fact, PE’s iconic rap radicalism is as timely as ever in the era of Black Lives Matter, and a couple of tracks here push an argument for their relevance by echoing the spacey minimalism… Source: RollingStone Link: Man Plans […]
On the hidden track tucked at the end of this U.K. band’s debut, singer-guitarist Ellie Rowsell strums her guitar on a demo-quality recording that recalls Liz Phair’s low-fi-grail Girly Sound tapes from 1991. “Teach me rock & roll,” she sings with breathy anticipation. That sense of open-ended self-discovery suffuses every… Source: RollingStone Link: My Love […]
Nearly a quarter-century after it was released, Pavement’s 1992 debut, Slanted and Enchanted, is still arguably the greatest indie-rock LP of all time — an offhand masterwork of magic-hour guitar static, thrift-shop melodic charm and singer-guitarist Stephen Malkmus’ poker-faced romanticism. Pavement were on an amazing run at the time, keeping their… Source: RollingStone Link: The Secret […]
If you always dreamed you’d get a chance to hear Natalie Imbruglia sing “I Melt With You,” your future just got a little more open wide. This Australian pop thrush broke hearts around the world back in the Nineties with her classic karaoke weeper “Torn,” and Male has that same… Source: RollingStone Link: Male
As a summer breeze blew, Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Andris Nelsons summoned the sense of an opening to heaven as voices from the giant choir rattled the open-air theater. Nelsons had chosen Mahler's Symphony No. 8, one of the biggest and most involved works of the classical repertoire, to celebrate Saturday's 75th anniversary of Tanglewood, […]