Amber Mark released “a subtle New York anthem” titled “Put You On” on Friday. The track features a guest verse from the rapper DRAM. “Put You On” drips with references to R&B and hip-hop from the first half of the Nineties — the fat synthesizers and big bassline point to …
Read More »Dilly Dally Went Through Hell to Get to 'Heaven'
In the video for Dilly Dally‘s “I Feel Free,” singer-guitarist Katie Monks prowls around a gothic cemetery before digging up four graves. Three of them contain her bandmates – guitarist Liz Ball, bassist Jimmy Tony and drummer Benjamin Reinhartz. Inside the fourth, she finds the white Flying V guitar she …
Read More »U2 Abruptly End Berlin Show After Bono Suffers 'Complete Loss of Voice'
UPDATE: Bono issued a statement following Saturday night’s cancelation where he assured fans the European leg will continue as planned. “I’ve seen a great doctor and with his care I’ll be back to full voice for the rest of the tour,” Bono wrote. “So happy and relieved that anything serious …
Read More »Songwriter Lera Lynn on Duets Album 'Plays Well With Others,' Stylistic Evolution
Lera Lynn has a classic quandary on her hands at the moment: she can’t actually perform her latest album while she’s on tour. Plays Well With Others, released in June, paired Lynn with a wide assortment of duet partners, including John Paul White (who produced the album at his studio …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Ryan Culwell, “Can You Hear Me”
The lead single off Texas songwriter Ryan Culwell’s new album The Last Americandeftly sums up where we are as a society in 2018: a nation of detached, tech-addicted Tweeters desperate to find some kind of flesh-and-blood connection. For Culwell, that connection can even be alien contact; he opens the lyrics …
Read More »Pearl Jam, Mike Shinoda, Alessia Cara Join Suicide Prevention Campaign
Pearl Jam‘s Mike McCready and Stone Gossard, Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda, Stone Temple Pilots, Alessia Cara and 30 Seconds to Mars’ Jared Leto will participate in the second-annual suicide prevention and mental health awareness campaign “I’m Listening.” Radio network Entercom organized the multi-platform initiative, which will feature a two-hour broadcast …
Read More »Nina Nesbitt Has Sound Advice for the Ladies in Acoustic Version of 'Loyal to Me'
Scottish singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt imparts some wisdom — and light gymnastics — in the video for her latest single, “Loyal to Me.” Nesbitt stopped by Rolling Stone headquarters to share an acoustic version of her cutting new song, as well as some background: inspired by Nineties R&B ballads, she wrote …
Read More »Hear Disclosure's Hypnotic New Song 'Moonlight'
UPDATE 2: Disclosure have shared another song titled “Love Can Be So Hard,” the Lawrence brothers’ third new track of the week. After “Moonlight” draw from a cappella acts from the 1940s and “Where Angels Fear to Tread” explored the Sixties, the latest track is “inspired by our love of …
Read More »Lady Gaga's 'The Fame' at 10: How Her Debut Was a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
“I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star,” Lady Gaga toldRolling Stone for her first cover story in 2009. She was talking about her state of mind before her big breakthrough the year prior, but by the time she spoke to RS, Gaga didn’t need …
Read More »Review: Haunt Get Retro-Metal Right on 'Burst Into Flame'
In metal as in many other styles, retro reigns. Bands and labels are falling all over themselves to evoke the Heavy Metal Parking Lot golden age via studiously old-school production values and cover art that screams 1987, right down to the cheesy font choices. A lot of the results look the part …
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