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Paul McCartney, New: Album Review
16 solo albums and 50 years into an incredible career, Paul McCartney aims for the middle again with the not-so-new sounds of whatever this latest one is called.
Reverend Mothers Bring Rock Back With Acolyte’s Revival EP
Rock & roll ain’t dead. Actually, it might be living in Boston.
Fall Out Boy, Ryan Adams Get Down and Dirty on New EP
When Fall Out Boy ended a four-year hiatus this spring with the release of fifth album Save Rock and Roll , audiences and critics were clearly happy to hear their unique blend of verbose, baroque pop-punk on the airwaves again. (Lead single “ My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up) ” hit No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 – rarified air for a rock band in the 2010s.) If you’d told fans they’d follow up Save Rock and Roll with a taut, grimy EP of punk tunes, it might’ve been hard to believe. […]
The Singles Bar: Tears for Fears, “Ready to Start”
New Wave legends Tears for Fears surprised fans with their first new recording in nine years: a cover of Arcade Fire’s “Ready to Start.” It might be crazy to call a band with 16 U.K. Top 40 hits “underrated,” but Tears for Fears – to this writer – have only seemed to earn the respect they truly deserve in recent times. In the last decade, Gary Jules and Michael Andrews had a U.K. chart-topper with a mournful cover of the band’s “ Mad World ,” […]
Kings of Leon, ‘Wait For Me:” The Singles Bar Review
The boys in Kings of Leon have just released the second song from their new album Mechanical Bull, slated for release on September 24th. “Wait For Me,’ is a slow burner ballad that, for my money, is much more impressive than first single, ‘Supersoaker.’ It definitely has an arena rock ‘lighters-in-the-air,’ feel to it. It also has a middle-eastern coda reminiscent of Tom Petty’s ‘Don’t Come Around Here No More.’ It’s potential to do to adoring female fans what the first single promised […]
Mini-bLISTerd: A Tribute to the Style of Nile
If you like music and you’ve been on the Internet in the past few weeks, you can’t go far without seeing Daft Punk’s name in print. The French dance duo came back in a big way this month with the release of Random Access Memories , a stirringly retro dance album and their first proper studio album in eight years (a live album and the soundtrack to TRON: Legacy have all appeared in the interim). Deftly zigging where an EDM-fueled crowd expected them to […]
Hashtag, You’re It: Eight Examples of Outdated Tech in Pop Music
15 years from now, someone will pull this article up and ask “What’s a blog?”
The Shouting Matches, Grownass Man: Album Review
Musical anonymity can be a funny thing. Justin Vernon, the neo-folk mastermind behind Bon Iver, isn’t going completely incognito by stepping out with a few friends to record a loose-limbed garage-blues record, but it’s something of a musical disguise nevertheless; his ethereal, crooning falsetto replaced with a gnarled, expressive wail, one could easily mistake his vocals on The Shouting Matches’ Grownass Man for the work of… of anyone else, really. Take your pick. But that’s not to say that Grownass […]
Walk Off the Earth, R.E.V.O.: Spin Cycle
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In several ways, the scrappy members of Walk Off the Earth are bucking the stereotypes. Consider that if this band name rings a bell, it’s likely for one of two reasons: 1. You saw that viral video of Walk Off the Earth covering “Somebody That I Used To Know” on a single guitar, or 2. You are a member of Walk Off the Earth. That video’s their claim to popular fame, and yet there’s no accusing them of being a […]