Charles Bradley delivers a stark, speechless performance in the new video for his cover of Black Sabbath’s “Changes,” the title track from his upcoming LP out April 1st via Daptone Records imprint Dunham. Bradley previously released a version of “Changes” as a Record Store Day Black Friday single in 2013, making this… Source: RollingStone Link: Charles […]

WHO: Sheer Mag guitarist Kyle Seely acknowledges that “everyone thinks I was born and raised on nothing but Seventies rock,” and it isn’t hard to understand why. His boogie-ing, fuzz-drenched riffs and barbed-wire solos often draw comparisons to acts like Thin Lizzy and Lynyrd Skynyrd, while his band’s tuneful, if raw and… Source: RollingStone Link: Sheer Mag's […]

“How Soon Is Now?” was the Smiths hit that never quite was. Their U.K. record company buried it on a B-side in 1985 because they thought the track – built around a swooping tremolo attack on a single F-sharp chord that sounded like guitarist Johnny Marr was surfing a tsunami… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: The […]

Eagles of Death Metal returned to Bataclan in Paris less than one month after gunmen interrupted the band’s show at the venue as part of a series of terrorist attacks around the French capital, The New York Times reports. Frontman and co-founder Jesse Hughes did not offer a comment to reporters gathered outside the venue, though he and his bandmates added flowers… Source: RollingStone Link: Eagles […]

On the one hand, the 1988 LP This Note’s For You was an admirably perverse move from Neil Young – an album decrying the use of pop music as a corporate branding tool (quaint, right?), dressed up as a big-band rhythm-and-blues review. On the other hand, it was a collection of mostly… Source: RollingStone Link: Bluenote Café

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Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings brought the holiday blues to Conan Monday with a pining, web-exclusive rendition of “Please Come Home for Christmas.” Jones belted the somber, mid-tempo tune with characteristic aplomb, running vocal circles around a clever arrangement by the Dap-Kings that mixed sultry guitars, gritty horns and seasonally apt orchestral… Source: RollingStone Link: Sharon […]

There are many Velvet Undergrounds – the avant-pop shockers of The Velvet Underground and Nico, the proto-punk noisemakers of White Light/White Heat, the folk-rock redemption-seekers of the self-titled third LP, the coulda-been mainstream contenders of Loaded. And then, as this four-disc set shows, there was the live band, which was something else again…. Source: RollingStone Link: The Complete […]

If you’re going to name your band Stove, you’d better be pretty hot. Luckily, Steve Hartlett, the former songwriter of New England indie favorites Ovlov, is up to the challenge. After the drawn-out break-up of his old band, Hartlett has changed tacks for this searingly introspective solo project. His first… Source: RollingStone Link: Is Stupider

After releasing Wasted on the Dream in March of this year (no thanks to ex-label Warner Brothers), JEFF the Brotherhood paused for a moment, took a sizeable bong rip and plunged into a mystical desert oasis. At least, that’s the impression left by Global Chakra Rhythms, the first album the Orrall brothers have recorded… Source: RollingStone Link: Global Chakra […]