“R&B, dancehall, electronic and hip-hop are genres that are really pushing the limits,” Jamie Hince, the Kills’ British singer-guitarist, told Rolling Stone recently. “But guitar music isn’t. Most bands are just tributes to the 1970s or the Nineties.” With their new album, Ash & Ice, out June 3rd, the Kills… Source: RollingStone Link: The Kills […]
Pianist Robert Glasper has spent the past 10 years decorously disassembling whatever walls folk may imagine separate the romantic funk of modern R&B from the abstract truths and monster chops of modern jazz. This not-having-two-effs-to-give quality alone renders Glasper a qualified son of Miles Davis and the ideal cat to aid actor/director/screenwriter/… Source: RollingStone Link: Everything's Beautiful
If vulnerability had a sound, what would it be? Does being unguarded always mean being meek and unassuming? Or do the vulnerable have some fight in them? In their debut LP, Philadelphia noise-rock duo Pinkwash bare their teeth as powerfully as they bare their wounds. Inspired by the loss of… Source: RollingStone Link: Collective Sigh
History repeats itself with the latest set by the Jayhawks, a band built on the Everly-cum-Burrito Brothers vocal harmonies of Mark Olsen and Gary Louris that, when Olsen departed in the Nineties, went from baroque country rock into rangier pop-rock territory. After his one-off return for 2011’s Mockingbird Time, its Louris’ show again… Source: RollingStone Link: Paging Mr. […]
Rita Wilson is best known as an actress and producer (as well as the wife of Tom Hanks), but her 2012 debut as a singer, AM/FM, was a strong set of classic pop and country covers that showed off her Broadway-steeped vocal chops. Wilson’s second album, recorded in Los Angeles and Nashville with… Source: RollingStone Link: Rita Wilson
The Stockholm-based company licenses music to create playlists, streaming and download products. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Warner Music Group Acquires Digital Compilation Company X5
Of Montreal have announced their new album, Innocence Reaches, which will be released on August 12th via Polyvinyl. The group’s 14th album follows the release of last year’s studio effort, Aureate Gloom, and their live album, Snare Lustrous Doomings. Frontman Kevin Barnes said the style of the group’s new 12-song set developed from him listening… Source: RollingStone Link: Of […]
When Southern-rock/country artist Tim Montana finished watching the 2014 film American Sniper, the story of U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, in a theater struck quiet by the movie’s somber ending, he was overcome by the desire to do something to help U.S. service members suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. So Montana,… Source: RollingStone Link: Tim […]
A quick survey of the pop music landscape: Kanye West, in the midst of rolling out an album that frequently changed titles and engaging in a Twitter feud with a rapper named Wiz, claimed he was $53 million in debt but could still "buy furs and houses for my family." A scandal known as "DoughnutGate" […]
In the wake of last week’s shooting at a T.I. show at New York’s Irving Plaza that left one dead and three others wounded, concert promoter Live Nation has canceled or postponed six upcoming New York shows, including performances by YG, Joey Bada$$ and Mac Miller. “In light of last week’s tragic… Source: RollingStone Link: Live […]