Wale and Jerry Seinfeld are the most unlikely pair in pop culture. The rapper first paid tribute to his favorite comedian with 2008’s The Mixtape About Nothing; Seinfeld returned the favor by shouting him out in last year’s Top Five. Here, they consummate their friendship with a full-on collaborative LP…. Source: RollingStone Link: The Album […]
Drenge are a three-piece band that suggest how Nirvana or the White Stripes might’ve turned out if they’d grown up stupid and contagious in the North of England. The band’s 2013 debut came with adorable grunge complaints like “People in Love Make Me Feel Yuck.” On the follow-up, singer-guitarist Eoin… Source: RollingStone Link: Undertow
Jennifer Nettles, the cheery voice behind crossover country hits “Stuck Like Glue” and “All I Want to Do,” has always seemed like Sugarland’s happy-go-lucky breakout star. This solo debut from the duo’s other half, Kristian Bush, might challenge that — it’s 12 songs about sunsets, beach trips and the people we… Source: RollingStone Link: Southern Gravity
“If my heart had a geography, it would look just like walking down Fifth Avenue,” Ryan Adams told the crowd at the end of his solo acoustic stand at Carnegie Hall last year. On this stunning 40-plus-song live collection, he offers a heartfelt love letter to his former hometown, revisiting… Source: RollingStone Link: Live at […]
Tori Amos arrived in 1991 like the cool older sister of a million alt-rock fans’ dreams, hair aflame in a shade unattainable by Manic Panic. The pop charts had never heard a female voice quite like the one on Little Earthquakes, from the sharp mix of desire and frustration in… Source: RollingStone Link: Under the […]
Just as baby boomers trawled the Seventies for a new Dylan, millennials — and those who profit off them — are still in search of the next Bieber. Shawn Mendes, a 16-year-old Canadian with more Vine followers than Justin himself, once seemed like a viable candidate. His debut album, though, presents him… Source: RollingStone Link: Handwritten
Matt and Kim are experts at throwing euphorically geeky dance parties, cranking out jams that would sound more at home in a bounce castle than in a club. The mix of indie pop, hip-hop and EDM on the Brooklyn duo’s fifth album has never been catchier — from the twerped-out trap… Source: RollingStone Link: New Glow
Two years ago, Waxahatchee’s bracingly intense Cerulean Salt made punk singer-guitarist Katie Crutchfield an indie star. Now she is terrified of slowing down. “I can be a ray of light,” she sings on “Stale by Noon,” “but you are always in my head.” It’s one of many songs where Crutchfield… Source: RollingStone Link: Ivy Tripp
From 2002’s “The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton” to the lauded novel Wolf in White Van, underdog artisans have been John Darnielle’s favorite alter egos. His new Mountain Goats set draws its characters from the world of small-time wrestling. Expecting jokes? Think again. A battered dude poignantly remembers… Source: RollingStone Link: Beat the […]
It’s been a late-game rally for eternal teenager Brian Wilson, the boy genius-turned-Great American Artist who, by his own measure, just wasn’t made for this world. After three more-or-less lost decades in the wake of Pet Sounds, few expected 2004’s Brian Wilson Presents Smile — and even fewer 2012’s intermittently great Beach Boys reunion… Source: RollingStone Link: No Pier […]