In their ’00s heyday, this Rhode Island noise-punk duo splattered audiences with quick, giddy blasts of DayGlo brutality — usually setting up on the floor right in the middle of the crowd rather than playing from a stage. They’re back after a six-year hiatus, hammering away like Sonic Youth gone speed… Source: Rolling Stones song […]

The alluringly murky production on the Shakes’ new cut evokes the kind of schmutz-caked soul 45 you might discover in a rural junk shop that also sells M-80 explosives and candied hog jowls — the perfect funky feel for Brittany Howard’s beef-squashing plea. Over a guitar line that recalls James Brown’s… Source: Rolling Stones song […]

You only live one time, so Migos offer a straightforward strategy for getting the most out of your days on Earth: Avoid repetition. The Atlanta trio affirm that the first cut is the deepest, the first chain is the brightest and first party is the most turnt. Their case adds… Source: Rolling Stones song […]

Indie folk auteur Sufjan Stevens is already a master at musical vulnerability, but on the first single off his upcoming album Carrie & Lowell — named for his mother and stepfather — Stevens finds a strikingly fresh way to rip open his wounds for the world. On the atmospheric “No Shade in… Source: Rolling Stones song […]

Some cite LMFAO’s bottom-shelf novelty hits as everything that’s wrong with today’s music. “Juicy Wiggle” (from the group’s Redfoo) makes the case that pop has been shamelessly silly all along, attempting an unlikely fusion of contemporary EDM and Fifties rock. This is how the hop would have sounded if your… Source: Rolling Stones song […]

Eight years have passed since Modest Mouse put out a new album, and if the urgency and absurdity of the Pacific Northwest crew’s new single is any indication, frontman Isaac Brock must be crawling out of his skin. It’s a frenetic onslaught of paranoia, silliness, endlessly elastic rhythms and swirling… Source: Rolling Stones song […]

Sleepless, lonely Laura Marling paints a bleak picture: Women go crazy, her neighbors beg for help through the walls and she hears animals dying — it’s like a folk-rock Walking Dead, right down to the chilling strings that swell around the song. By the time she reaches the final verse, she… Source: Rolling Stones song […]

Death Cab For Cutie’s new album is their first without founding member Chris Walla, and their first since frontman Ben Gibbard divorced Zooey Deschanel. So when Gibbard sings, “There’s a dumpster in the driveway of all the plans that came undone,” you know the sad realness is really real. But when defiantly raw… Source: Rolling Stones song […]

“Every day, I’ll make promises that plague Sarah’s heart/So I can watch her fall apart,” indie-rock wunderkind Alex G sings. On this doleful bedroom-pop nugget (written a few years ago, before his Internet-driven career took off), he turns his passive-aggressive warbling into bright, blurry poetry that anyone could love — except maybe… Source: Rolling Stones song […]