Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Jack Johnson, Paula Abdul, Jason Mraz, Tim Robbins, Keb’ Mo’ and Elizabeth Banks were among the musicians and celebrities to perform music alongside students as part of the Turnaround Arts program. Today, the initiative, along with Playing for Change, unveiled their all-star video… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Chad […]
SWMRS co-leader Cole Becker is hanging from the ceiling. The California punk rockers are charging through bracing, hook-y songs off their debut, Drive North, at a New York show. They even return to the stage after their allotted set time and keep rocking unplugged through a cover of the Cure’s… Source: RollingStone Link: Meet SWMRS: […]
In its original form, Maggie Rose’s “Same Sky” has echoes of the sleek dance pop that Taylor Swift and Robyn have mastered, yoking a boom-clap beat to electric guitar riffs and showers of synthesizer. The song appears on Rose’s Variety Show, Vol. 1, which was released in April 2016. But Rose… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]
Brooklyn rapper Joey Bada$$ has dropped his latest single “Devastated,” which the Pro Era MC first debuted during his Coachella set in April. The uplifting, resilient cut finds Bada$$ singing on the radio-friendly chorus, “I used to feel so devastated / At times I thought we’d never make it / But… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]
Gone Is Gone – an experimental rock supergroup featuring members of Mastodon, At the Drive-In and Queens of the Stone Age – launch into deep-space with new single, “Starlight.” The band, masked in silhouette, performs the track in an eerie, frenetic video. “Emptiness is here,” sings Troy Sanders over synth pads and Tony Hajjar’s nuanced… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
By May 1966, John Lennon and Bob Dylan had become the only serious candidates for the newly conceived “Spokesman of a Generation” title. At the height of their creative powers, each of the men sought to break free from their own reputations by making music that had no precedent. Dylan, having stretched… Source: RollingStone Link: Remembering Bob […]
Red Hot Chili Peppers unleash atmospheric funk on “The Getaway,” the title-track of their 11th studio album, out June 17th. “Take me to the future,” frontman Anthony Kiedis croons over Flea’s minimalist bassline. “The Getaway,” available now on all major download and streaming services, arrives weeks after the release of dreamy lead… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]
Neil Young came face-to-face with his arch nemesis – a living, breathing ear of GMO corn – on Thursday’s Late Show With Stephen Colbert, with the rocker engaging in a conversation about why he’s so against agrochemical company Monsanto. Colbert first relayed to Young the results of a study that found there is… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]
Arcade Fire’s Win Butler and Régine Chassagne delivered a quirky DJ set this week during French street artist JR’s exhibition “JR at the Louvre,” held at Paris public garden Jardin des Tuileries. The husband and wife duo were joined by live percussionists as Butler spun tracks by David Bowie (“Oh! You Pretty Things”)… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch Arcade […]
Lee Brice was busy collecting songs for his I Don’t Dance follow-up when he stumbled across “A Little More Love,” a summertime anthem written by Shane McAnally, Ross Copperman, Natalie Hemby and Kristi Neumann. Something about the song’s brotherly bounce made him reach out to Jerrod Niemann. Together, the longtime… Source: RollingStone Link: See Lee […]