Next month, Jimmy Eat World and Manchester Orchestra, two long-running and canonical bands who have grand and sweeping emo classics for days, will head out on a North American tour together. It’ll be a true co-headlining affair, with the two groups taking turns closing the shows. In the lead-up to the tour, the two groups […]
Late Primal Scream Keyboardist Martin Duffy’s Son Accuses The Band Of Financial Exploitation
Late last year, the veteran UK rock keyboardist Martin Duffy died after suffering a brain injury from a fall at his home. Duffy was 55. He’d played with bands like Felt and the Charlatans, but he spent most of his career in Primal Scream — first as a contributing musician and then as a full […]
Welcome Interstate Managers Turns 20
Fountains Of Wayne had released three albums and been together nearly a decade before they reached the Top 40 with their 2003 single “Stacy’s Mom.” A zippy new wave throwback indebted to the Cars’ chugging rhythms and keyboard-heavy power-pop, the song features a hormones-raging teenager fantasizing about romancing his friend’s mom. While on some level […]
Video: Hit-Boy, Big Hit “Tony Fontana 4”
Hit-Boy keeps it in the family with the fourth installment of his Tony Fontana song series, which arrives with its music video. With ThirdEyeRaz back behind the lens, the father-and-son duo are stacking bread and packing up kilos for their introspective collabo. “Last night I woke up in the middle of night / Had a […]
Rap Radar Podcast: Tyler, The Creator
New season! Photos: Kenya Frank Tyler, The Creator stands by his product. So much in fact that two years after releasing his Grammy Award winning album, Call Me If You Get Lost, he repackaged it as The Estate Sale. But Tyler music isn’t the only thing on Tyler’s plate. He’s opened the market up to […]
Tupac Gets Hollywood Walk Of Fame Star
Even Hollywood trying to get a piece, baby. Photo: Chris Pizzello After nearly three years since his untimely demise, rap legend and actor Tupac Shakur posthumously received his star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. On Wednesday (Jun. 8), family and friends of 2Pac gathered on Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, California for […]
Vampire Weekend Announce Vinyl-Only Live Album Series
Vampire Weekend have announced a vinyl-only live album series. The first edition of this series, Frog On The Bass Drum Vol. 01 Live In Indianapolis, went on sale today and is already sold out of its 2,500 copy run. It’s made up of recordings from the band’s June 2019 show in Indianapolis, and includes their […]
The Nerves’ Jack Lee Dead At 71
The California musician Jack Lee died last month at 71 from colon cancer, as Pitchfork reports. Lee was the leader of the ’70s power-pop trio the Nerves, and songs he wrote would go on to be covered by Blondie, Paul Young, and Suzi Quatro. Lee formed the Nerves in 1974 while living in San Francisco, […]
Video: Juice WRLD “Glo’d Up”
Happy Anniversary. Juice WRLD’s life goes on in his new music video, “Glo’d Up”. Courtesy of Grade A Films, the visual depicts a younger version of the late rapper at his alma mater, Homewood-Flossmoor Community High School. The clip soon shows his fruits of labor with a lavish crib full of plaques before the rapper […]
Sunbather Turns 10
“Nature Boy” is not only a landmark for being Nat King Cole’s first crossover hit to reach white audiences in America. It also presented this country with the idea of the hippie. Cole got the song from eden ahbez, an American orphan who worked at a health food store in Los Angeles, who’d learned of […]