This Halloween weekend, Hard threw another Day of the Dead with Skrillex, Deadmau5, Boys Noize, Method Man and Redman, Future, Flying Lotus and tons of costumed revelers. Check out pictures from the Pomona, California throwdown. Source: RollingStone Link: Hard Day of the Dead 2015: See Costume-Heavy Photos From the Pomona Party
Adele’s new single “Hello” had a record-shattering week on the charts as the 25 introductory track sold 1.11 million digital copies in its debut week in the U.S., making it the first single ever to rack up over 1 million downloads in its first week of release. The platinum week also pushed “Hello”… Source: RollingStone Link: Adele's 'Hello' […]
Sports recorded a debut album last year, when they were still students at bucolic Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Since graduation earlier this year, they’ve gone their separate ways — but their second album still evokes the extremely charming sound of late senior year, enjoying the hilariously cheap off-campus rents… Source: RollingStone Link: All of […]
“I hate the beach, but I stand in California with my toes in the sand,” frontman Jesse Rutherford sang on this Ventura County crew’s 2013 sleeper hit, “Sweater Weather.” A spry song that rolled from a half-awake hum to a stadium-ready chorus, it stood out on the radio. But the warmth… Source: RollingStone Link: Wiped Out!
The first album from Long Beard, a band led by New Brunswick, New Jersey, singer-songwriter Leslie Bear, raises some big questions: What happens to your soul when you die? How about the specters of past relationships and life stages? Assembled partly from recordings made in suburban attics and bedrooms, it’s an… Source: RollingStone Link: Sleepwalker
Five years ago, a teenager who now goes both by Will Toledo and Car Seat Headrest was sitting in the back of the family car somewhere in Virginia, writing songs — a young man besotted with backwards-playback effects like John Lennon nearly half a century before him. Eleven self-made, Bandcamp-posted albums… Source: RollingStone Link: Teens Of […]
“I’m a hard-luck kid, so why even try?” Beach Slang singer-guitarist James Alex hollers on his band’s excellent debut. In fact, this hard-luck kid is in his early forties. But that only makes his commitment to blustery, big-hearted punk-rock catharsis that much more heartening. Another fine export from the same Philadelphia that’s already gifted… Source: RollingStone Link: The Things […]
Sam Smith has unleashed “Drowning Shadows,” an elegant, poignant ballad he calls “the saddest song I’ve ever written and probably the least radio-friendly song I’ve ever written.” The soul singer issued that warning during Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show, where the song premiered on Monday. “Do I go home for nothing… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]
The cover of the second album from Steve Martin and Edie Brickell looks like the poster for a light, sophisticated rom-com targeted to an older, NPR-ish audience. That’s the vibe of the rootsy music they make, too: smart and stately, full of detailed craft and unfussy intimacy. Renaissance man Martin has… Source: RollingStone Link: So Familiar
In the mid-Eighties, Def Leppard and genius producer Robert “Mutt” Lange sold an Everest-sized pile of records by making pop-metal at its most streamlined, glossy and, at times oddly beautiful (their dream-cheese masterpiece “Hysteria”). The band’s commercial fortunes took a terminal hit when their partnership with Lange ended, but they’ve continued… Source: RollingStone Link: Def Leppard