Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds was driving between 63 and 68 MPH on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle in a 35 MPH zone when he was killed in an accident last month in Atlanta, according to a report from local police. The musician, who was 51, died hours later from blunt force injuries at Grady Memorial Hospital. Hinds […]
With several No. 1 hits already in her native Holland, Davina’s second album, Higher, released last September, is taking her global. It’s a beautiful record, blending pop with a sharp edge, to cut the sweetness. “If there is a sweet lyric, then I like the melody darker and rougher to balance it out,” she tells […]
Think of your favorite artist’s music tour. You probably have in mind first the beat and rhythm of their music, their soulful lyrics, the lights on the stage, and the joy of the crowd of your fellow fans. What you don’t usually get to see is all the work put in behind the scenes to […]
Beauty School Dropout has been a band for barely half a decade, but they’ve already played the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. When SPIN caught up with the busy Los Angeles quartet of singer Cole “Colie” Hutzler, guitarist Brent “Beepus” Burdett, producer-guitarist Bardo Novotny, and drummer Colton Flurry, they were fresh off a July […]
Bruce Springsteen fans are in for another bonanza of rarities with Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition, which arrives Oct. 17 from Sony Music a week ahead of the film that portrays its creation, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. The four-disc boxed set is led by a previously unheard electric trio version of “Born in the U.S.A.,” […]
It had been 19 years since Pete Droge released a solo album before his incredibly emotional and personal record, Fade Away Blue, was released on August 22. Turns out, he’d been busy. Droge was 40 when he decided he needed to find his birth mother. It was Thanksgiving weekend 2009. Droge was going through some […]
For the first time since 1916 when Pancho ‘La Cucaracha’ Villa and hundreds of revolutionary gangbangers (los Villistas) stormed the southern border to sack the New Mexico town of Columbus, America is experiencing — our government claims — a land invasion. The intervening century-plus has been quiet, too quiet, on the invasion-front — but not […]
Tame Impala get an assist from Stranger Things star/musician Joe Keery in the video for their latest new song, “Loser,” which follows the release last month of the seven-minute, electro-driven “End of Summer.” The clip was directed by KRISTOFSKI, who has worked closely for years on the visual side of Tame Impala with frontman Kevin […]
While they continue to astonish audiences on their first North American tour in three years, Nine Inch Nails have unveiled the Maxime Quoilin-directed video for “As Alive As You Need Me To Be,” the lead single from their soundtrack to the upcoming film TRON: Ares. The latter is due Sept. 19 from Interscope, with the […]
Now Hear This is a monthly A&R column that provides you with exciting new sounds we discovered through the innovative new music platform Groover. Each month, you can expect a varied bouillabaisse of songs from a vast spectrum of artists from all over the globe, regardless of genre or geography. Photo Courtesy of Tamar Berk […]