All year long, the music world has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. Surprisingly, the Recording Academy had the most memorable tribute to the genre so far, with Questlove stringing together a generations-spanning medley that went down as one of the great Grammy moments in recent memory. Now the VMAs have staged a star-studded […]
VMAs: Watch Fall Out Boy Cover “We Didn’t Start The Fire” Live For The First Time
Early in the summer Fall Out Boy covered Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire,” updating the lyrics to reference topics from the past 30+ years, though not in chronological order. “Listen, we did our best,” the band’s Pete Wentz told Zane Lowe at the time. “It’s very, very, very difficult.” Tonight Fall Out Boy […]
Wild Nothing – “Suburban Solutions”
Next month, Jack Tatum’s indie-pop project Wild Nothing will release the new LP Hold. While Tatum has collaborated with other artists recently, this will be his first new Wild Nothing album in five years, and it’ll reflect on the process of becoming a father and leaving Los Angeles to return to the Virginia suburbs where […]
Institute – “City”
The grimy DIY band Institute started a decade ago, when a bunch of members of Austin punk bands got together to make something different. The music that they make in Institute is a version of post-punk that occasionally veers off into psych-rock, but they keep the immediacy of the house-show hardcore that raised them. Institute […]
Adam Scott & Scott Aukerman Launch Latest Music Podcast U Springin’ Springsteen On My Bean?
Adam Scott and Scott Aukerman have been talking music for a long while on their podcast series, which has gone through a few different iterations over the years. After running through all of U2’s discography with U Talkin’ U2 To Me?, they moved on to R.E.M. with R U Talkin’ R.E.M. Re: Me?, took a […]
Citizen – “When I Let You Down”
Next month, the fired-up Midwestern alt-rockers Citizen will follow up their 2021 album Life In Your Glass World with their new LP Calling The Dogs. We’ve already posted the early tracks “If You’re Lonely” and “Hyper Trophy,” and now they’ve also dropped the jittery new song “When I Let You Down.” “When I Let You […]
The Most Iconic Concept Albums Of All Time
Concept albums are a collection of songs in which each track plays a significant role in making the album feel like a unified piece. This can be accomplished lyrically, instrumentally, compositionally, or just about anything that ties the record together as a whole. Unsurprisingly, music critics don’t have a clear definition as to what makes […]
Vic Mensa “LVLN Up”
Chain hanging, it’s heavy as fuck. Ahead of the release of his Victor album, Vic Mensa turns up on the project’s latest offering, “LVLN Up”. Over a boisterous instrumental, the Windy City rapper unleashes his braggadocious bars and reminds folks of his longevity. “I got a whole new gameplan, I’m doing numbers like Rain Man […]
Madder Rose Announce First Show In 24 Years
If you are younger than 40, there is a very good chance that the words “Madder Rose” will mean absolutely nothing to you. They might mean nothing to you if you’re over 40, too, but that just means that you weren’t reading, like, Magnet and CMJ and the pre-MySpace-emo version of Alternative Press every month. […]
We’ve Got A File On You: Mark McGrath
We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc. Not every career musician is comfortable with the word “nostalgia.” For example, Third Eye Blind’s Stephan Jenkins is notoriously anti-nostalgia, despite most of his radio […]