When Chris Lane recorded his first LP, Girl Problems, he and producer Joey Moi decided to double down on the skill that they believed could help the North Carolinian stand out in the crowd: his ability to slip easily into falsetto, a technique that rarely makes its way into the …
Read More »Donnie Fritts to Pay Tribute to Arthur Alexander on New Album
Songwriter and musician Donnie Fritts returned to his native home of Alabama to record a moving and deeply personal tribute to his longtime best friend Arthur Alexander, the soul singer and songwriter of tunes covered by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, among countless others. The LP June …
Read More »Hear Iggy Pop & Underworld's Buoyant 'Get Your Shirt'
Underworld & Iggy Pop have shared their buoyant new single “Get Your Shirt,” the latest preview from their collaborative EP Teatime Dub Encounters. A sharp contrast to the atmospheric, spoken word song “I’ll See Big,” Pop and Underworld return to their bedrocks – infectious beats and proselytizing vocals – for …
Read More »Watch Young Thug, Lil Uzi Vert Go Full David Lynch in Surreal 'Up' Video
Young Thug and Lil Uzi Vert descend into a world of surreal debauchery in the new video for their song, “Up.” The clip has a distinctly David Lynch-ian vibe with Young Thug and Uzi prominently spitting the woozy track in a room draped in red velvet curtains and covered with …
Read More »Drake's 'Scorpion' Shatters Single-Day Streaming Records
Drake‘sScorpionshattered single-day streaming records on both Apple Music and Spotify, with the rapper’s new double album on pace for the most streamed week in charts history Scorpioneasily crushed Apple Music’s single-day streaming record – previously held by Drake‘s ownMore Life– with 170 million streams worldwide in its first 24 hours …
Read More »Joe Strummer's '001' Box Set to Feature Rare, Unreleased Solo Songs
Joe Strummer‘s work outside of the Clash will be collected in the new compilation Joe Strummer 001, featuring rare and unreleased recordings by the late rocker. The compilation – which features Strummer’s solo work in addition to songs with his 101ers and Mescaleros and the first recordings Strummer made post-Clash …
Read More »How We Made the Greatest Songs of the Century – So Far List
To compile our list the 100 Greatest Songs of the Century – So Far, we reached out to a large group of artists, producers, critics and industry experts who sent us ranked lists of their favorite songs. The list was determined by ballot. Voters submitted their 25 favorite songs of …
Read More »Cassadee Pope to Play 2018 Warped Tour
Years before rebranding herself as a country-pop powerhouse, Cassadee Pope earned her first fans as the leader of Hey Monday. She was a teenage punk-rocker, fronting a band of mop-topped misfits whose fans included Glee co-founder Ryan Murphy – who handpicked the band’s power ballad “Candles” for a key scene …
Read More »Judas Priest Launch Glenn Tipton Parkinson's Foundation to Honor Guitarist
Judas Priest have launched the Glenn Tipton Parkinson’s Foundation, named after the heavy metal act’s guitarist who announcedthat he had been battling the disease for a decade prior to their Firepower Tour. “It was the band that suggested we start a foundation which, although in my name, is really a …
Read More »Coheed and Cambria Detail New Album 'The Unheavenly Creatures'
Coheed and Cambria have detailed their upcoming concept album The Unheavenly Creatures, a sprawling 78-minute, 15-song LP that continues the narrative set forth in the band’s Amory Wars narrative. The band previously trumpeted their upcoming album, Coheed and Cambria‘s first since 2015’s The Color Before the Sun, with the 10-minute …
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