Bernie Sanders and his supporters are confident that the Senator from Vermont is well qualified to serve as Commander in Chief, but does he have what it takes to be a hip-hop star? Video-remix specialist DJ Steve Porter seems to think so, judging from his latest Rolling Stone exclusive supercut. Porter,… Source: Music News
Sam Hunt, Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Carter Highlight ASCAP Awards
“Tonight, it’s all about the songwriter,” David Nail told Rolling Stone Country at last night’s 53rd annual ASCAP Country Music Awards in Nashville. “I wouldn’t be here without them.” Indeed, in a week that culminates with the crown jewel in the Nashville honors crowd, Wednesday’s CMA Awards, smaller shows like… Source: Music News
Carly Rae Jepsen Lives Pop Fairy Tale in 'Your Type' Video
Carly Rae Jepsen muddles the lines between fantasy and reality in the charming video for “Your Type,” one of several sugar-coated anthems from her new album, Emotion. The dulcet words of an anonymous nighttime radio DJ introduce the clip’s “Cinderella story,” as the camera tracks Jepsen in the throes of the doldrums,… Source: Music […]
Hear Sia's Liberating New Song 'Bird Set Free'
Sia has followed up the electrifying single “Alive” with the anthemic new track, “Bird Set Free.” Both will appear on her upcoming LP This Is Acting, out January 29th. Related: Sia Delivers Electrifying Vocals on New Song, ‘Alive’ “I don’t care if I sing off-key/I’ve got myself and my melodies/I sing with… Source: Music […]
All of Something
Sports recorded a debut album last year, when they were still students at bucolic Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Since graduation earlier this year, they’ve gone their separate ways — but their second album still evokes the extremely charming sound of late senior year, enjoying the hilariously cheap off-campus rents… Source: Music News
Wiped Out!
“I hate the beach, but I stand in California with my toes in the sand,” frontman Jesse Rutherford sang on this Ventura County crew’s 2013 sleeper hit, “Sweater Weather.” A spry song that rolled from a half-awake hum to a stadium-ready chorus, it stood out on the radio. But the warmth… Source: Music News
Sleepwalker
The first album from Long Beard, a band led by New Brunswick, New Jersey, singer-songwriter Leslie Bear, raises some big questions: What happens to your soul when you die? How about the specters of past relationships and life stages? Assembled partly from recordings made in suburban attics and bedrooms, it’s an… Source: Music News
Teens Of Style
Five years ago, a teenager who now goes both by Will Toledo and Car Seat Headrest was sitting in the back of the family car somewhere in Virginia, writing songs — a young man besotted with backwards-playback effects like John Lennon nearly half a century before him. Eleven self-made, Bandcamp-posted albums… Source: Music News
The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us
“I’m a hard-luck kid, so why even try?” Beach Slang singer-guitarist James Snyder hollers on his band’s excellent debut. In fact, this hard-luck kid is in his early forties. But that only makes his commitment to blustery, big-hearted punk-rock catharsis that much more heartening. Another fine export from the same Philadelphia that’s already… Source: Music News
Hear Sam Smith's 'Saddest Song,' Piano Ballad 'Drowning Shadows'
Sam Smith has unleashed “Drowning Shadows,” an elegant, poignant ballad he calls “the saddest song I’ve ever written and probably the least radio-friendly song I’ve ever written.” The soul singer issued that warning during Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show, where the song premiered on Monday. “Do I go home for nothing… Source: Music […]
