Music Review John Clarck Blackwell
This Melbourne band's full-length debut is a minor marvel: 10 perfectly pitched guitar-pop songs, not a dud among 'em. There are echoes of other bands – generous handfuls of R.E.M. and the Cure, mostly, with a little New Order and Television thrown in – but they make it all sound
Some cotton-candy jump-up drum tumble, some ruffled-sleeve harpsichord, wild-style samples, sugar-sharp melodies and chirp-along pep-rally yammering – all orchestrated within an inch of their pretty little lives. It's just the Go! Team doing its adorable joy-grenade thing like the illest party starters in Munchkin Land. The UK crew’s new one quotes
Thirty Seconds to Mars unveiled the music video for "Rescue Me," featuring a montage of people expressing various emotions in tight close-up shots. The song appears on their fifth album America, which was released in April. "'Rescue Me' is a song about pain, a song about This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com:
A decade after Gwen Stefani and Pharrell collaborated on dance-floor banger "Hollaback Girl," they're steeping their emotions on a pop-reggae allegory about a bear with an identity crisis for their contribution to the Paddington soundtrack. As improbable as the premise sounds, parents can enjoy it almost as much as their
The Grateful Dead have announced their latest deep-dive box set release, Pacific Northwest '73-'74: The Complete Recordings, which will feature six complete shows recorded during those years. Today the band is previewing the set by unveiling a 26-minute medley including the American Beauty closer This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com:
Though his star shone brightest in the Clinton era, Dave Matthews doesn't seem too interested in indulging much Nineties nostalgia. His first album in six years features just a few of DMB's least-attractive jam-funk impulses: "Can't Stop" rides a rote groove and sentiment ("I'm like a junkie for you, babe"),
Leave it to perennial party-man 2 Chainz to turn a song about real-life horror – somebody lurking around a drug house – into a quasi-celebration. As a jittery trap beat shuffles around ominous piano notes, the rapper brags about drinking "Dom Pérignon by the pitcher" and deals barely-subtle sex metaphors about
Moby will sell his entire record collection to raise money for Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. The sale begins Thursday, June 14th at Reverb LP's site dedicated to Moby's collection, which This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Moby to Sell Massive Record Collection, Rare Test Pressings for Charity
Sleep, The Sciences | ★★★★At the Gates, To Drink From the Night Itself | ★★★ 1/2Burn the Priest, Legion: XX | ★★★Five Finger Death Punch | And Justice for None ★★ In the late Seventies, heavy metal transcended musical genres and became a culture. Metalheads grew their hair as long as they
"Air" is filled with hypotheticals. As a relationship falls apart, Waxahatchee frontwoman Katie Crutchfield weighs the meaning of every action and the possibility within every choice, her careful articulation revealing not indecisiveness but empathy. When she draws out the line "You are patiently giving me everything I didn't need," you feel for