Their Sound: Loosely wandering but tightly composed forays into garage rock with a blurry, psychedelic edge. They may be from Tennessee, but their second LP, For Use and Delight, is more evocative of Dylan’s Infidels than Nashville Skyline, jetting off into lush and layered territory that pulls from Link Wray and… Source: RollingStone Link: Promised Land […]
Omi scored one of this year’s fizziest hits with “Cheerleader,” a pop-reggae trifle with a fun-loving dance beat and lyrics about his decision not to cheat on his woman. What a guy! But the 28-year-old Jamaican singer’s charm wears thin on his debut LP. “Cheerleader” was a years-old song that… Source: RollingStone Link: Me 4 […]
Best Coast keep things simple, but quintessentially California, in the new lyric video for “In My Eyes,” off the duo’s third LP, California Nights. The video finds frontwoman Bethany Cosentino and guitarist Bobb Bruno leading their touring band in front of a small audience on the roof of Capitol Records’ famed circular headquarters… Source: RollingStone Link: Best […]
Jamie N Commons’ look screams modern fashion, but his sound is refreshingly old school, a passionate riff on vintage blues and soul. The charismatic London singer-songwriter recently journeyed to the Big Apple, where joined Timberland for the unveiling of the brand’s Fall 15 Collection and a celebration of its Modern… Source: RollingStone Link: See Jamie […]
A letter signed by all four members of the Beatles petitioning for Mick Jagger to play the lead role of Alex in the film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange has hit the auction block. Paddle8 will offer up the unique item, which carries an estimated selling price of $18,000 to $25,000. As the story goes, in… Source: RollingStone Link: Mick […]
Drake released “Hotline Bling” during his Beats 1 OVO Sound radio show at the end of July; since then, the song has become a phenomenon. It instantly eclipsed the rapper’s Meek Mill diss track “Charged Up” (which arrived the same day), despite all the hoopla surrounding the Drake-Meek beef. “Hotline Bling”… Source: RollingStone Link: Drake Takes: […]
Taylor Swift delved into the way she manages and maintains her career, friendships — including Kanye West — and the mythology that surrounds songs like “Bad Blood,” in a revealing, lengthy profile in GQ. Author Chuck Klosterman spends much of the story plumbing the peculiar relationship between Swift’s very public personal life… Source: RollingStone Link: Taylor […]
When Jean-Michel Jarre helped create electronic music in the 1970s, the sound came off as revolutionary. With the genre now increasingly mainstream, Jarre is seeking to trace its evolution. In an album to be released Friday, Jarre's first of new material in eight years, the French artist has reached out to other musicians he sees […]
Steven Tyler has followed up his well-publicized request to Donald Trump to stop using “Dream On” with an op-ed for Huffington Post about copyright law. “My intent was not to make a political statement, but to make one about the rights of my fellow music creators,” the Aerosmith frontman wrote… Source: RollingStone Link: Steven Tyler […]
UPDATE: In response to other websites categorizing Katy Perry as a “backup singer” in reference to her collaboration with P.O.D., the band’s Marcos Curiel has shared the following statement with Rolling Stone: “This is revisionist history and disrespectful to our girl Katy who was NEVER a backup singer … We invited… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Katy […]