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 […]
So Familiar
The cover of the second album from Steve Martin and Edie Brickell looks like the poster for a light, sophisticated rom-com targeted to an older, NPR-ish audience. That’s the vibe of the rootsy music they make, too: smart and stately, full of detailed craft and unfussy intimacy. Renaissance man Martin has… Source: Music News
Def Leppard
In the mid-Eighties, Def Leppard and genius producer Robert “Mutt” Lange sold an Everest-sized pile of records by making pop-metal at its most streamlined, glossy and, at times oddly beautiful (their dream-cheese masterpiece “Hysteria”). The band’s commercial fortunes took a terminal hit when their partnership with Lange ended, but they’ve continued… Source: Music News
Kurt Cobain's 'Unplugged' Cardigan, Lost John Lennon Guitar Up for Auction
Kurt Cobain’s green cardigan from Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged taping, the Beatles’ drumhead from their 1964 visit to the Ed Sullivan Show and a long-lost acoustic Gibson belonging to John Lennon are among the nearly 350 rock-related items that will hit the Julien’s Live auction block on November 7th. Cobain’s Manhattan brand sweater – “a… Source: Music […]
Flashback: Tom Jones, Dwight Yoakam Cover the Rolling Stones
Throughout the Sixties, Welsh-born singer Tom Jones scored huge pop hits on both sides of the pond with “It’s Not Unusual,” “Delilah” and “What’s New, Pussycat.” A wildly popular stage and TV star whose live concerts made grown women swoon (and willingly sacrifice their undergarments), Jones also turned the country… Source: Music News
Reese Witherspoon Wants ‘Legally Blonde 3′ To Happen For Feminist Reasons
A political career for Elle Woods would get people talking about women in government, Witherspoon says. Source: MTV Movie News
17 Reasons Brandy Is The Only ‘Cinderella’ You Need
The 1997 Brandy version of “Cinderella” is the best version. Source: MTV Movie News
