A couple of hours before Pearl Jam played the Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, South Carolina, on April 21st, guitarist Mike McCready called into Rolling Stone to talk about the band’s ongoing North American tour. The shocking news of Prince’s death hit earlier that day, and that night he’d sprinkle a bit… Source: RollingStone Link: Pearl Jam's […]
When it comes to music videos (and fans), it’s hard to beat Carrie Underwood. The country superstar has won the CMT Music Awards’ Video of the Year honors a record six times. She’ll try for a seventh on June 8th, when the cable network broadcasts its annual awards show from… Source: RollingStone Link: 2016 CMT […]
Death From Above 1979 and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club will partner for a co-headlining North American tour this fall. Los Angeles rock duo Deap Vally will provide support throughout the trek, which begins October 11th at the House of Blues in Cleveland and wraps November 11th in Washington D.C. at the Fillmore. A complete… Source: RollingStone Link: Death […]
Best New Artist Grammy winner Meghan Trainor is returning this week with Thank You, a brash pop statement that expands the hitmaker’s sound into dance-, rap- and Carribbean-influenced tunes. Having already grabbed a Number One single (“All About That Bass”) and a Number One album (Title), she was prepared to… Source: RollingStone Link: How Meghan […]
James Blake gets abstract and emotive in the new video for “I Need a Forest Fire,” a track off his surprise album, The Colour In Anything, featuring vocals from Bon Iver. Directed by UVA, the clip comprises gorgeous shots of various art installations that play with light, shadow and shapes, while birds and… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Maddie & Tae’s new single, “Sierra,” takes on a high school classmate of Maddie Marlow’s who apparently taunted and trash-talked her. In the searing song, Marlow and Tae Dye strike back at Marlow’s bully, telling her that karma is soon to bite. But just a few days ago, Marlow and… Source: RollingStone Link: Maddie & […]
Brooklyn indie-pop outfit Lucius released a surreal video for “Gone Insane,” off their latest LP, Good Grief that uses stop-motion graphics, facial contortions, and a creepy mannequin that emphasize the abstractions of the song. Directed by Nathan Johnson, the video is made of over 3,000 still images and finds singer-songwriter Jess Wolfe singing in… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
When John Doe looks back at the early days of punk in Los Angeles, the thing that strikes him first is a sense of community. It was fun scene, and that’s an adjective he says can’t be immediately pinned to the genre’s other major punk hubs in the late Seventies. “New… Source: RollingStone Link: X's John […]
Kvelertak are the rare metal band that seem to succeed at trusting their intuition. The Norwegian group goes freeform where more traditional headbangers often question and belabor even the most inconsequential guitar pick scrape. Whether it’s juggling black-metal blast beats and Eighties-influenced power-rock riffs or indulging three-guitar Iron Maiden-esque prog-rock… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Kvelertak […]
For a Radiohead record, everything about the journalistic rush to judgment dictated by short-notice releases in our shoot-first media economy feels wrong, corrupt, diseased. That’s especially true for A Moon Shaped Pool, whose launch – that goofy word, as if LPs were space ships! – began with the band circulating snail… Source: RollingStone Link: A Moon […]