Eric Church has always been excellent at balancing whiskey-charged toughness with open-hearted musical subtlety: His first great hit was 2011’s “Springsteen,” a masterwork of literary detail and melodic texture, and 2014’s The Outsiders nailed a 21st-century country-rock sweet spot. So it’s no big shock to hear him big-upping Wilco’s Jeff… Source: RollingStone Link: Mr. Misunderstood
Eric Church has always been excellent at balancing whiskey-charged toughness with open-hearted musical subtlety: His first great hit was 2011’s “Springsteen,” a masterwork of literary detail and melodic texture, and 2014’s The Outsiders nailed a 21st-century country-rock sweet spot. So it’s no big shock to hear him big-upping Wilco’s Jeff… Source: RollingStone Link: Mr. Misunderstood
On her 2012 breakthrough, Visions, singer-producer Claire Boucher (a.k.a. Grimes) was an indie-rock fan’s platonic ideal of a pop star – blurring moody electro and moodier R&B in music that she made herself on Garageband, turning the underground into her own diva stadium, all while implying that actual pop success… Source: RollingStone Link: Art Angels
On her 2012 breakthrough, Visions, singer-producer Claire Boucher (a.k.a. Grimes) was an indie-rock fan’s platonic ideal of a pop star – blurring moody electro and moodier R&B in music that she made herself on Garageband, turning the underground into her own diva stadium, all while implying that actual pop success… Source: RollingStone Link: Art Angels
The last time Puff Daddy made a pure, uncut hip-hop album intended for car stereos instead of techno-fried dance floors was back in 2001 – before mixtapes like 50 Cent Is the Future made his big-budget rap albums unfashionable, and before YouTube made his big-budget music videos unnecessary. In those… Source: RollingStone Link: MMM
The last time Puff Daddy made a pure, uncut hip-hop album intended for car stereos instead of techno-fried dance floors was back in 2001 – before mixtapes like 50 Cent Is the Future made his big-budget rap albums unfashionable, and before YouTube made his big-budget music videos unnecessary. In those… Source: RollingStone Link: MMM
“We mean to stop, in increments, but can’t commit/We post and sit, in impotence/The harder you hit, the deeper the dent,” Joanna Newsom spits on “Leaving The City” — a storm system of consonance and assonance that morphs between harp-led Renaissance courtly dance and social-media-damning, Mellotron-amped rap rock. The California-bred singer-songwriter… Source: RollingStone Link: Divers
“I’m off the grid/I’m out of range,” Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox sings on his band’s seventh record. Agreed: No one spaces out like these Atlanta shoegazers and masters of distracted guitar poesy. Fading Frontier follows 2013’s dark-hued Monomania with a brighter, freer dream rock. It’s their most eclectic album, from the… Source: RollingStone Link: Fading Frontier
Craig Finn’s second solo set has been billed as his New York album, but the eternal Midwest transplant steers the looming dread and thin hope of these vivid strugglers’ tales through Colorado, Pennsylvania and (naturally) Minnesota en route to the Empire State. It’s less about literal place than emotion, per usual,… Source: RollingStone Link: Faith in […]
A honeymoon with Lana Del Rey is more sticky than sweet: Get ready to enter a world of truly tortured romance, complete with enough bitterness, lust and violence for a one-woman revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? If the pop star’s guitar-laced 2014 LP, Ultraviolence, was a one-night stand… Source: RollingStone Link: Honeymoon