After the release of Lord Huron’s acclaimed third album Vide Noir, the Los Angeles-based indie rock band took a few steps back during a session at Spotify Studios to cover a formative influence: Neil Young. For singer Ben Schneider, Young was a “perennial presence” growing up since his parents were …
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Melbourne’s Oh Pep! make indie-pop with the emphasis on “pop”: Their songs are smooth-running, precision-crafted melodic machines that just happen to be written and performed by two or three people instead of a factory. The couple in their new single “Your Nail and Your Hammer” first meet at a government …
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UPDATE (10/12): “Fleetwood Mac strongly disputes the allegations presented in Mr. Buckingham’s complaint and looks forward to their day in court,” a rep for the band said Friday. “The band has retained Dan Petrocelli to handle the case.” Petrocelli, a Los Angeles attorney, had previously represented the Eagles’ Don Henley …
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On the new episode of our podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now, we dig deep into the music movie of the year, A Star Is Born.To hear the entire discussion, press play below or download and subscribe oniTunesorSpotify. Will Lady Gaga win an Oscar for her revelatory performance, and what will …
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Rising R&B singer Ella Mai performed her Nineties throwback cut “Trip” on The Tonight Show Wednesday. The song appears on Mai’s self-titled debut album. The performance found Mai and her live band injecting a fresh urgency into the slick R&B groove of “Trip.” Mai deftly handled the song’s myriad vocal …
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Tom Morello has made plenty of big, brazen sounds in his career with Rage Against the Machine and other projects. But even by his standards, his first solo album under his own name is a noisy one. “I’ve been secretly toiling away on this record,” he says of The Atlas …
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Although normally focused on Americana-leaning country music, Chris Shiflett‘s Walking the Floor podcast goes full-on mainstream with this week’s episode. Justin Moore is the special guest, talking with his host about songwriting on Music Row, adolescence in rural Arkansas and the challenges of touring as a family man. Here are …
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Austin City Limits music festival is back in Texas this weekend, and Red Bull TV will be livestreaming many of the sets. Headliners for this year’s festival include Metallica, Travis Scott and Paul McCartney. Red Bull’s livestream will take place all three days for the first weekend of the two-weekend …
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Two decades ago, Steve Perry walked away from a legacy of carefree rockers and sentimental torch songs. His last recordings at the time, bonus tracks on a greatest hits comp, allowed him to stretch his elastic vocal cords to great heights, the likes of which he’d soared to with Journey …
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Night three of The Voice’s season 15 Blind Auditions on Monday was notably country heavy, but it also featured a trio of captivating pop performances. Nineteen-year-old Audri Bartholomew stood out with a stunning, operatic rendition of Loren Allred’s “Never Enough,” a hit from the soundtrack to Hugh Jackman’s P.T. Barnum …
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