“I love Coldplay!” Ryley Walker yells in the middle of a crowded bar in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood. “There, I said it.” It’s been a long journey to get to this point, but after years of disavowing his passion for bands like Coldplay, Switchfoot and DC Talk in order to …
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Ozzy Osbourne may be the self-proclaimed “Prince of Darkness” when he’s onstage singing hits like “Bark at the Moon” and “Paranoid,” but it was a much sweeter scene backstage before he went on at his tour kickoff earlier this year. When we visited Osbourne at Allentown, Pennsylvania’s PPL Center, his …
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On Wednesday night, the Mac Miller Circles Fund hosted a tribute concert in the late rapper’s memory. It was a star-studded event — Mac was a near universally beloved figure in hip-hop — featuring artists like SZA, Chance The Rapper, Rae Sremmurd and Travis Scott. It also featured video interstitials, …
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Across the Dominican Republic and New York City, a community of underground musicologists and engineers have committed themselves to transforming cars, vans and SUVs into gargantuan, roving speaker systems. These custom automobiles and their music-obsessed makers were profiled in a short film, Más Fuerte, released in conjunction with Presidente. Sean …
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Sharon Van Etten blends past and present in the frenetic new video for her recent single, “Comeback Kid.” The track will appear on Van Etten’s forthcoming album, Remind Me Tomorrow, out January 18th via Jagjaguwar. Jonathan William Turner directed the video, in which Van Etten bellows the blistering, synth-heavy cut …
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The Avett Brothers haven’t released an album of new music in more than two years, but on Wednesday night they gave fans a taste of some fresh material on Late Night With Seth Meyers with a joyous sing-along called “Roses and Sacrifice.” A reflection on love, commitment, and compromise, “Roses …
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For Steve Perry, selecting five songs that inspired him as a young singer required making some difficult choices. “This is such a tough question,” he says when we spring the task on him. “That’s because five is just not enough.” But he eventually took out his iPhone, began scrolling through …
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Dream-pop purveyors Beach House have unveiled new song, “Alien.” An outtake from their 7 recording sessions, it was previously available on tour only and is now being released as a limited edition B-side to 7 track “Lose Your Smile” on “slime green vinyl”. In the song’s accompanying video directed by San Charoenchai, …
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Chill-bass duo ODESZA announced they will be curating their own festival, to Rolling Stone during ACL Fest 2018. Dubbed SUNDARA, the ODESZA-curated music festival will be held at the all-inclusive Barceló Resort in Riviera Maya, Mexico.The four-day/night event will take place March 13th through the 16th. “It’s a bunch of …
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Psychic Temple is another name for Chris Schlarb, a self-styled cult leader from Long Beach, California, who’s really just a wickedly skilled producer, songwriter and musician. His Bandcamp page is full of sweet, strange sounds on the outskirts of folk-rock, jazz and psychedelia, and even further out than that — …
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