“Meet me in the back shed/I’ll be hanging up the knives,” Purity Ring’s Megan James sings on the Canadian duo’s second album. Their music is as creepy and alluring as her invitation would suggest. Producer Corin Roddick crafts stark tracks that find a middle ground between lustrous synth pop and… Source: RollingStone Link: Another Eternity
Kevin Barnes’ formal restlessness is his charm and flaw. It has made Of Montreal an ever-morphing, rarely boring indie-rock standby — but it can also find him riffling through random scraps like Macklemore in a Goodwill superstore. So goes Barnes’ latest: Impressive disco-funk-glam couplings (the politically incensed “Bassem Sabry”) rush the… Source: RollingStone Link: Aureate Gloom
“Even if we wanted/You can’t turn back the hands of time,” Kelly Clarkson sings over the synth strut of the aptly titled “Nostalgic.” But the OG American Idol manages to pull off that clock reversal, flooring her DeLorean back to the Eighties on her seventh studio album. She gets her… Source: RollingStone Link: Piece by […]
You cannot accuse Noel Gallagher, the former singer-guitarist and domineering songwriter in Oasis, of lacking self-awareness. The title of his second album since that British band’s implosion in 2009 gets right to Gallagher’s stubbornly retrospective passions — anything by the Beatles; Seventies glam; the Eighties boom in paisley jangle, led in… Source: RollingStone Link: Chasing Yesterday
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Ezra Laderman, a classical music composer whose works ranged from symphonies to operas to music for Academy Award-winning films, has died. He was 90. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Classical music composer Ezra Laderman dies at 90
The 1965 musical film was recently paid tribute at the 87th annual Academy Awards. Source: Yahoo Music Link: 'Sound of Music's' 50th Anniversary: What the Stars Are Doing Now
While Boots is known predominantly for his production work on recent releases from Beyoncé and Run the Jewels, the elusive artist is starting to step out on his own. After releasing a 30-minute short film titled “Motorcycle Jesus,” he has now made the soundtrack available to stream. Listen to it below. The… Source: RollingStone Link: Stream […]
When Paramore announced dates for their Writing the Future Tour in January, they made it clear this run of shows wasn’t just a tour, but “a celebration” of the success they found with their Grammy-winning self-titled album. But that doesn’t mean they’re slacking on the pre-show preparations. “We’re driving to rehearsals right now in Jeremy [Davis’]… Source: RollingStone Link: Hayley […]
Former founding Blink-182 member Tom DeLonge isn’t letting his public breakup from the band get in the way of releasing new music. Just over a month after Blink-182 announced that their guitarist had left the band “indefinitely,” DeLonge revealed plans to release an album titled To the Stars… Demos, Odds and Ends. The LP,… Source: RollingStone Link: Tom DeLonge […]
UPDATE: A representative for West has confirmed that Paul McCartney is the artist whistling at the end of “All Day.” The section appears to be a re-recording of a song McCartney wrote in 1969 that was inspired by a Pablo Picasso painting of a guitarist. The studio version of Kanye West’s new… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]