Glam rock revivalists the Darkness will return with their fourth LP Last of Our Kind on June 1st, the band’s first album since their 2012 reunion set Hot Cakes. In addition to the new album announcement, the Darkness also unveiled the bloody animated video for first single “Barbarian,” a tale… Source: RollingStone Link: The Darkness […]
With Kim Gordon’s memoir, Girl in a Band, due out this week, snippets of the audio edition of the book have begun surfacing online. Rough Trade has posted a nine-minute stretch of the singer-songwriter talking about her formative years from the first chapter, and the retail chain has promised to post… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Kim […]
Earlier this month, fun. informed fans that – while they were not breaking up – the Some Nights band were going on an indefinite hiatus that will end “when we are inspired to do so.” With the Best New Artist Grammy-winning group on a break, singer Nate Ruess announced that he would momentarily leave… Source: RollingStone Link: Nate Ruess […]
“I’m not bossy, I’m the boss,” commands frontwoman Sadie Dupuis on the first cut off New England pop-punk outfit Speedy Ortiz’s upcoming Foil Deer. While she’s not the first alpha female to echo the sentiment, her confrontational enunciation and ironic cooing over the track’s grungy, dizzying guitars are Dupuis’ own… Source: RollingStone Link: "Raising the […]
In their ’00s heyday, this Rhode Island noise-punk duo splattered audiences with quick, giddy blasts of DayGlo brutality — usually setting up on the floor right in the middle of the crowd rather than playing from a stage. They’re back after a six-year hiatus, hammering away like Sonic Youth gone speed… Source: RollingStone Link: "The Metal […]
The alluringly murky production on the Shakes’ new cut evokes the kind of schmutz-caked soul 45 you might discover in a rural junk shop that also sells M-80 explosives and candied hog jowls — the perfect funky feel for Brittany Howard’s beef-squashing plea. Over a guitar line that recalls James Brown’s… Source: RollingStone Link: "Don't Wanna […]
You only live one time, so Migos offer a straightforward strategy for getting the most out of your days on Earth: Avoid repetition. The Atlanta trio affirm that the first cut is the deepest, the first chain is the brightest and first party is the most turnt. Their case adds… Source: RollingStone Link: "One Time"
Indie folk auteur Sufjan Stevens is already a master at musical vulnerability, but on the first single off his upcoming album Carrie & Lowell — named for his mother and stepfather — Stevens finds a strikingly fresh way to rip open his wounds for the world. On the atmospheric “No Shade in… Source: RollingStone Link: "No Shade […]
Ryan Culwell grew up in the Texas panhandle, a windswept place filled with oil fields and open plains. It was there, surrounded by flatlands stretched to the horizon, that he began writing his own songs, looking to better understand the spirit and sparseness of his home by setting it to… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Texas […]
In 1968, country singer Tammy Wynette was on a hot streak that began two years earlier with “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad.” The first of her Number One singles, “I Don’t Wanna Play House,” topped the country chart in ’67, followed by “Take Me to Your World,” “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” and… Source: RollingStone Link: Flashback: Lyle […]