One month before Modest Mouse end their eight-year album hiatus with Strangers to Ourselves, the band has unveiled the album’s longest cut “The Ground Walks, With Time in a Box.” It’s the songs that stretch out past six minutes that typically showcase the band’s musicianship and allow Isaac Brock and company to delve deeper on tracks. The… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]
New York City alt-metallers Helmet were one of the more unlikely success stories in early Nineties music. Led by jazz-educated guitarist Page Hamilton, a preppy-looking, post-30 veteran of the downtown Manhattan avant-garde underground — he had logged time with experimental composer Glenn Branca and the noise outfit Band of Susans… Source: RollingStone Link: Helmet's Page […]
At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, June 18th, 2014, the six members of the Chicago-based band Umphrey’s McGee – singer-guitarist Brendan Bayliss, guitarist Jake Cinninger, bassist Ryan Stasik, keyboard player Joel Cummins, drummer Kris Myers and percussionist Andy Farag – walked into Abbey Road Studios in London and went to Studio… Source: RollingStone Link: Inside Umphrey's […]
Global Citizen, the international anti-poverty organization that has pledged to eradicate extreme global poverty by 2030, announced that Coldplay frontman Chris Martin will produce and curate the annual Global Citizen Festival until 2030. “It really is the pivotal year for the movement,” said Global Citizen co-founder Hugh Evans at a press event… Source: RollingStone Link: Chris […]
Big Sean gets inspirational on his new song, “One Man Can Change the World,” a stark piano ballad featuring Kanye West and John Legend that will appear on the rapper’s upcoming LP, Dark Sky Paradise, out February 24th. Over a simple rolling piano beat, Sean reminisces about his rough upbringing, touching on everything from his… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear […]
Entertainment law developments, including an appeal concerning Ray Charles’ songs and a guilty plea from a Megaupload computer programmer. Source: Yahoo Music Link: Hollywood Docket: Pre-1972 Music; 'Barely Lethal' Lawsuit; Aimee Mann Settlement
Martin is the agency’s executive vice president of worldwide music Source: Yahoo Music Link: APA Promotes Music Agent Steve Martin to Partner
Nearly lost in Kanye West’s claustrophobic SNL 40 performance, his surprise appearance alongside Drake and the debut of his new song “Wolves” is the main reason why the rapper was in Manhattan in the first place: The debut of his Adidas Originals collection. After his line finished on the New York Fashion Week runway,… Source: RollingStone Link: Kanye West: […]
Lesley Gore, the singer of Sixties hits like “It’s My Party,” “Judy’s Turn to Cry” and “You Don’t Own Me,” passed away today at a New York City hospital following a bout with cancer. Gore was 68. “She was a wonderful human being – caring, giving, a great feminist, great… Source: RollingStone Link: Lesley Gore, […]
Passion Pit have announced the details for the new album Kindred, the synthpop band’s first LP since 2012’s Gossamer. In addition to revealing that the 1o-track Kindred would arrive on April 21st and that pre-orders will kick off February 17th, the Michael Angelakos-fronted outfit also shared the album’s first single, the joyous “Lifted… Source: RollingStone Link: Passion Pit […]