Scott Stapp reflects on the trying past five years of his life and his road to redemption on the singer’s new song “Purpose for Pain.” The track features on the Creed singer’s upcoming album The Space Between the Shadows, his first solo LP since 2013’s Proof of Life and the …
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Bruce Hornsby invited Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon to join him in the studio for a serene new song, “Cast-Off,” that will appear on his upcoming album, Absolute Zero. The two artists trade off vocals about loving someone so much they’d be OK with being someone’s castoff. “I’ll be your castoff,” …
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“Angie, are you tough enuh-uff/To let it go?” asks Mary Timony over sugared electric guitar churn at the outset of Ex Hex’s latest, immortalizing a new rock’n’roll Angie with as much performative heartache and swagger as Jagger, maybe more. Ex Hex’s second album is about garage-rock thrust at its core, …
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Meek Mill revealed the first teaser for his upcoming docuseries Free Meek during the rapper’s sold-out performance at the Met in his native Philadelphia amid the “Meek Mill Weekend” celebrations. The preview, which was also uploaded to YouTube, features snapshots of concert footage, documents from the case as well as …
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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard will release a new LP, Fishing for Fishies, on April 26th via ATO/Flightless Records. The prolific psych-rockers previewed the record with the ebullient singalong title-track, a warped nursery rhyme in which multi-instrumentalist Stu Mackenzie sings about feeling disgusted by the act of fishing. “I …
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Over the weekend, several viral videos showed spontaneous dance parties erupting on New York City subway platforms as ecstatic crowds leaving Robyn‘s Madison Square Garden show sang “Dancing on My Own” and “Hang With Me” one more time for the road. That spirit of getting lost in the moment and …
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Before the release of The Downward Spiral — Nine Inch Nails‘ 1994 industrial-metal masterpiece, which came out 25 years ago today — Trent Reznor felt the need to apologize to his label. “I said to the label, ‘Look — sorry, but I don’t think there’s a fucking single in here. …
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Three years after Elton John announced plans to pen a “no-holds-barred” autobiography, the rock legend has revealed when the memoir will arrive. “My life has been one helluva roller coaster ride and I’m now ready to tell you my story, in my own words,” John tweeted Friday. “My first and …
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The National have announced a new album, I Am Easy to Find, which is available for preorder and will be released on May 17th via 4AD. The band has also unveiled the LP’s first single, “You Had Your Soul With You.” A stuttering, bright melody and beat serves as an …
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The Hold Steady adopt an Exile on Main St. swagger with their brass-heavy new song “The Last Time That She Talked to Me.” Throughout the track, frontman Craig Finn gazes back on a past relationship, picking apart scenes in reliably dense detail. “If all of my existence is ever on …
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