Archive | January, 2016

M:FANS / Music for a New Society

Like many musicians, John Cale tends to excel in collaboration – see the Dream Syndicate, the Velvet Underground, albums with Nico, duets with Terry Riley and Brian Eno, and production for the Stooges, the Modern Lovers and Patti Smith. Cale’s 1982 LP Music For A New Society, however, was a… Source: RollingStone Link: M:FANS / […]

Nevermen

Ever since introducing himself to the world with Faith No More’s The Real Thing in 1989, Mike Patton has been defined by near-superhuman levels of vocal dexterity and a creative restlessness that borders on ADHD, trying everything from avant-garde composition to Italian opera to the surf rock-death metal hybrids of… Source: RollingStone Link: Nevermen

Malibu

Like Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment or Raury, Anderson Paak is a dreamer and a romantic who blends hip-hop, R&B, rock and soul into a funky world all his own. The Oxnard, California, musician updates the muted grooves of Soulquarians-era landmarks like D’Angelo’s Voodoo with the sweeping, wide-screen ambitions… Source: RollingStone Link: Malibu

Matter

It’s difficult to listen to St. Lucia’s second full-length without thinking of a list of Eighties touchstones: “Home” recalls the high-energy grooves of Prince at his purplest, the synths on “The Winds of Change” sound a little like Madonna’s “Lucky Star.” Ultimately, though, St. Lucia mastermind Jean-Philip Grobler – a… Source: RollingStone Link: Matter

Watch Mike Huckabee's Insane, Desperate Adele Parody

Mike Huckabee has taken Republicans poaching artists’ music without permission to a new and frankly horrifying extreme thanks to the Arkansas governor’s “parody” of Adele’s “Hello,” which turns the Number One single into both a pandering love letter to caucus state Iowa and a desperate attempt to stave off irrelevance in… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Mike […]

Hear the Next Generation of Folk-House With Bunt's New Mixtape

German EDM duo Bunt. are combining folk music and house in infectious ways — and they’re out to make the hybrid stick. Following the traction they gained with single “Harmonica,” the band is debuting a new mixtape featuring house mixes of Elle King, Mumford & Sons, Of Monsters and Men, Vance Joy and… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear the […]

Joe Jonas Talks DNCE's 'Grease: Live' Cameo

Today, DNCE will be entering their first rehearsal with the full cast of Grease: Live. The band signed on to play Johnny Casino and the Gamblers, the fictional band that soundtracks Rydell High’s famous school dance scene, and even more famous dance-off. Filling the shoes of Sha Na Na, the… Source: RollingStone Link: Joe Jonas […]