When Beach Blanket Bingo gets its 21st century remake, here’s the soundtrack. Shannon Shaw and Cody Blanchard trick out warped Fifties-Sixties rock driven by space-age thrift-shop keyboards, shimmy-shake dance grooves and sexy moonlit vocals — Shaw’s woozy Amy Winehouse-isms are backlit by Blanchard’s shrieky falsetto. If the campy atmosphere nods… Source: Music News

What a time to be alive — and being “alive,” as Future and Drake define it, involves having way too many feelings about way too many strippers for way too many sleepless nights. Their surprise mixtape collabo is shrewdly timed, since both MCs are on a creative roll after dropping… Source: Music News

One year after releasing 1984, his love-letter EP to mid-Eighties punk, Ryan Adams is back with an album-length cover of Taylor Swift’s 1989. It plays like the latest chapter in his ongoing recent Tom-Petty-meets-the-Smiths re-imagining of the Reagan years. “You’ve got that Daydream Nation look in your eye,” he sings,… Source: Music News

Broken Bells have shared a surprise new song, “It’s That Talk Again,” ahead of the premiere of of their concert film, Live at the Orpheum, airing Saturday at 9 p.m. ET on Palladia. The previously unreleased “It’s That Talk Again” was recorded during the sessions for Broken Bells’ 2014 LP, After the Disco, and finds… Source: Music […]

After two Russian comedians tricked Elton John into thinking he was on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the real Putin has given John a ring to schedule a meeting on LGBT rights. Reuters reports that a spokesman for Putin, Dmitry Peskov, revealed to reporters that a call between the pair… Source: Music […]

The Dead Weather have offered another riveting live performance clip off the group’s upcoming LP, Dodge and Burn out Friday. Directed by Jack White, “Be Still” finds the Dead Weather bashing out the swampy, blues-tinged cut in a rehearsal space lined with lifeless, faceless humanoids and piles of tires. As the song plows… Source: Music […]

At this point, Shaquille O’Neal’s LinkedIn probably needs a LinkedIn. Over the past twenty years, he’s been a four-time NBA champion (and one-time MVP), a TV pitchman, a studio analyst, a rapper, a genie, a cop, a venture capitalist and a superhero – and that’s just a quick skim through… Source: Music News

“You have to fuck up in front of a million people till you get it right,” Kurt Vile says of playing new songs live. “Then all those people who saw you say on the Internet that they saw you once and you stinked. And I’m like, ‘No! I’m good now!’” The… Source: Music […]

“We get a little bit more of a difficult journey,” Cassadee Pope told Rolling Stone Country earlier this year, speaking about the tougher climb up the country radio charts that women seem to have, versus men. But she went on to explain the challenge as a glass-half-full kind of thing,… Source: Music News