Archive | October, 2015

Standing Still

Covers albums can be a way for acts whose creative juices have gone dry to bail themselves out for a spell. Rarely do they make the kind of singular artistic statement that Ruby Amanfu achieves with Standing Still. The Ghana-born, Nashville-bred singer — who was formerly one half of the… Source: RollingStone Link: Standing Still

Daybreaker

Over the last few years, Nashville’s Moon Taxi have worked their way up from Bonnaroo buzz-band to something approaching Kings of Leon country, playing a pleasingly cross-bred rock — a little indie, a little proggy, kinda poppy, Southern and jammy in a way that might be unrecognizable to oldsters who… Source: RollingStone Link: Daybreaker

Angels & Ghosts

With Depeche Mode, frontman Dave Gahan’s haunting baritone often provides the human touch within songwriter Martin Gore’s icy electronic tableaus. With Soulsavers — a British production duo known for its gospel-inflected, organic sound — the singer has room to grow into something more. Angels & Ghosts is the second album… Source: RollingStone Link: Angels & […]

Thank Your Lucky Stars

Beach House craft songs like cloudy sapphires: glittering on their surfaces, with a blue, murky power underneath. Over six albums, the Baltimore duo have distilled their sound into an exact dream-pop formula, leaving room for their devoted fans to project their own hopes onto their songs. Their fifth LP, this… Source: RollingStone Link: Thank Your […]

Storyteller

There’s as much Janis as Patsy in Carrie Underwood’s delivery, as much Heart as Harlan Howard. It’s that voice that makes her the only truly unfadeable American Idol success story: a country-pop-rock superpower that sweeps in like the sanctified cyclone of her 2012 hit “Blown Away,” laying waste to drunken-lout fathers, abusive… Source: RollingStone Link: Storyteller

Run the Jewels Break Down 'Meow the Jewels' Donation Recipients

Run the Jewels have updated their Meow the Jewels Kickstarter page with a full breakdown of how they donated their funds in the fundraising effort as well as which organization will receive all future profits from the cat-sampling Run the Jewels 2 remix album. “We’ve been trying to figure out where the… Source: RollingStone Link: Run the […]