Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 11th studio album, The Getaway, is out now. For the first time since 1991, the band worked with a producer other than Rick Rubin, calling on Danger Mouse to refresh their funky, Cali-rock sound. Over the course of their career, the band members have become as known… Source: RollingStone Link: Weekend Rock […]
Father’s Day weekend is usually presented as a time for kids to shower their dads with love and appreciation, but it can also go the other way. Hayes Carll’s heart-swelling video for “The Magic Kid” shows how, perfectly capturing the other side of the coin. Originally released back in April, the… Source: RollingStone Link: See […]
The wave of 2016 mega-albums (The Life of Pablo, Lemonade, Views) has slowed somewhat, but great music is still pouring forth from both huge stars and cutting-edge indie artists. Here are the songs we currently have in heavy rotation, including a gem from the Monkees’ surprising comeback and the latest… Source: RollingStone Link: Our Favorite […]
Passenger, the singer-songwriter best known for his ubiquitous 2012 single, “Let Her Go,” will release his eighth studio album, Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea, on September 23rd via Nettwerk. Passenger (Mike Rosenberg) co-produced the LP alongside previous collaborator Chris Vallejo (INXS, Empire of the Sun) at Neil Finn’s… Source: RollingStone Link: 'Let Her […]
“The process has changed drastically since our first time in the studio so many years ago,” says Justin Moore of making his fourth full-length album, Kinda Don’t Care, which hits shelves August 12th. But the country singer is not interested in nostalgia. “This is the best piece of music we’ve delivered… Source: RollingStone Link: Justin […]
Brandy Clark’s 2013 debut, 12 Stories, heralded a Nashville songwriting renaissance, alongside pathfinders like Kacey Musgraves and Eric Church. Its sequel, and proper major label debut, ups the ante: It’s music tooled alternately for stadiums and songwriting circles, commercial and public radio, line-dance bars and coffee shops. Clark’s a badass who… Source: RollingStone Link: Big […]
On his self-titled 2012 debut, Australian producer Harley Streten (a.k.a. Flume) came off as an EDM artist with a pop side, mixing shades of R&B into his relaxed tracks. His follow-up is more aggressive (check the bass-driven banger “Wall Fuck”). Layered, abrasive electronics set a grimy backdrop for MC guest… Source: RollingStone Link: Skin
When Tom Petty reassembled his first, pre-Heartbreakers band in 2007, it may have seemed like a novelty. Now, with a second album, Mudcrutch feel like a steady moonlighting gig. This record is more of a band effort than the decades-delayed debut – all of the members get writing credits, and… Source: RollingStone Link: 2
“When you change yourself, you’ll change the world,” roars Joe Duplantier on “Silvera,” the second track from Gojira’s sixth and latest album – and “change” definitely seems to be the operative word these days for the French progressive metal giants. The highly anticipated Magma finds Joe, his drummer brother Mario,… Source: RollingStone Link: Magma
Following the breakout success of 2014’s Bury Me At Makeout Creek, 25-year-old Mitski Miyawaki takes a walk on the weird side in her fourth LP. Assisted by producer and instrumentalist Patrick Hyland, she shrugs off indie rock convention from the onset; “Happy” opens the album with braying saxophones, beats craftily fashioned from CD skips and lyrics about a… Source: RollingStone Link: Puberty 2