Chrissie Hynde has rounded up a host of rock’n’roll heavy hitters for the new album Duets Special, which will be released Oct. 17 by Rhino. The project features a different special guest on each of its 13 songs, including the late Mark Lanegan, the Killers’ Brandon Flowers, Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan, Garbage’s Shirley Manson, Cat […]
The irony isn’t lost on Guy Garvey that he had to get good and drunk to write a song called “Sober.” “Isn’t it perverse?” he says with a chuckle. The Manchester band first came up with the track’s taut, bass-driven groove shortly after Alex Reeves (The Ting Tings, Bat For Lashes) started playing drums for […]
In a big empty house high in the hills near Glendale, California, Daron Malakian is singing along to an old outlaw country tune. It’s called “Waymore’s Blues,” a classic Waylon Jennings ballad from 1975. It’s a gently loping track set to acoustic guitar, organ, and a playful bass groove. The lyrics are a little bit […]
Dutch-born, Nashville-based DJ, producer, and songwriter MOONLGHT is influencing the evolution of electronic music by blending classic nostalgia with cutting-edge production. Known offstage as acclaimed music talent Stefan Schonewille, he has quickly emerged as one of EDM’s most exciting new voices. MOONLGHT explores creative boundaries and offers a fresh take on modern electronic music with […]
Every summer, thousands of music-loving humans escape to the juxtaposition of a festival – an inner city and yet lakeside-oasis that is Lollapalooza. This year, the festival broke records with its attendance which was no surprise when four day passes sold out within the hour they dropped. Chicago’s loop became the place to be for […]
Over the week my mother was dying, I listened to Boy George’s second solo album, Tense Nervous Headache, every night after coming home from the hospital. Locked in my bathroom, sitting on the floor, my 21-year-old self needed at least one full playthrough to help process what was happening. Less than a year later, still […]
She’s back! Taylor Swift has announced a new album, The Life of a Showgirl, and has begun taking pre-orders for it on her web site, but it seems more information will have to wait until her appearance tomorrow (Aug. 13) on boyfriend Travis Kelce’s New Heights podcast. The news follows a day of teases on […]
Florence + the Machine are teasing new music on social media, including a spooky clip in which singer Florence Welch, clad in a red dress, digs a hole in a windy, desolate soundscape. She later emits three visceral screams, apparently upon seeing what’s inside. Welch and company’s last new album, Dance Fever, came out in […]
Maye Osorio couldn’t sleep. One day, while buying a yoga mat at the Grand Central Market’s Bazaar in Downtown Los Angeles, she found out why. “I had a meeting that day in that building, and I saw a lady who was selling yoga mats, so I went up to her and she just started reading […]
As I walk into Yellow Racket Records at 2311 E. Main Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Destroyer is playing over the loudspeakers. Ben VanderHart, the founder and creative director of the store, is sitting at a table in the Listening Room, a space situated in the next room over from the main store area, where listening […]