After an 11-year hiatus, The Raconteurs have suddenly released a brand new rock album. The band's official site has chronicled the album's drip fed release since February of this year. Read More
Rodrigo y Gabriela brought their signature propulsive performance to bear song after song—punctuated by quieter moments of conversation where both ruminated on the individual and collective journeys that brought them to this point. Check out our full collection of shots from a great show. Read More
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"Blow" and its narrative sound like music from another era, one of authenticity, country lonesomeness, and living a life worth singing about. Read More
The recent auction of 127 of David Gilmour's guitars went for a $21.5 million, with all the proceeds being donated to combat climate change. Read More
Glenn Danzig has been busy and now seems like a good time to appraise the Misfits' self-proclaimed legacy of brutality. Read More
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William Russell Wallace’s LP may go by the name of 'Dirty Soul', but it’s a piece of unadulterated talent, pouring straight from the source. Read More
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Alejandra O’Leary and her single "Wires" masterfully taps into the very core of one of the richest nostalgia goldmines – '90s shoegaze rock. Read More
The plot is based on the so-called 27 Club theory, based on the idea that there is something sinister in the fact that multiple famous rock stars have left this world at the age of 27. Read More
Maybe the ‘old fashioned’ rock critics have further retreated into the online fringes of their personal websites and academic research, even further than they did last year. But luckily, they are still writing books. Read More
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"San Jacinto" is about a vice-fueled 'dirty soul,' but such music could never come out of a dirty place. Excess and guilt give birth to beautiful music. Read More
Daughters' latest is a raw, twisted, in your face mass of sound that gets it's hooks deep into your brain with its hypnotic patterns. Read More
As Imagine Dragons have reached for more and more festival anthems their music has gotten more and more soulless, with 'Origins' reaching an all-time low. Read More
'Trench' is a surprisingly subdued follow-up to their breakthrough album, but its hyper-focused music might just be some of their best stuff yet. Read More
Any road you take in rock music, the one to fame or the one to oblivion, is paved with sad stories of mishaps and misfortune. Late Gene Clark, co-founder of The Byrds, is probably the epitome of them. Read More
If anybody in modern music is taken as a stereotype of the genius/weirdness combination it is late Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett, a founder and brief mailman of Pink Floyd, solo artist, painter, and recluse - often most of these things at the same time. Read More
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"Nebulas" by Holy WOW! is a trippy garage rock song with a video to match, the two evoking a strange, spacey mix of Depeche Mode and Pink Floyd. Read More
While there's no way that this was the exact vision Lil Peep had for this project, they still did a good job of highlighting the immense talent and potential he had as an artist that could blur genre lines and be the face of this new "emo rap" wave. Read More
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The music video for "Orange is for Love," just like the actual song, is like a David Lynch film, meant to be experienced rather than analyzed. Read More
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"Orange Is For Love" by Elvyn Rhud is a stoner/psychedelic rock song that can take you on a trip to a number of places, real and imaginary. Read More
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"Concealed Little Weapon" is a dose of nostalgia for the 90s rock and grunge classics, but with its talented creator's unique and elusive touch. Read More
What happens when lifelong rock fans get old? They spread memes. I can’t imagine anything less rock ’n’ roll than complaining on Facebook about the musical tastes of kids these days. Read More
The Go-Betweens produced some of the most mutant, evocative intellectual pop, that never succeeded at the time it was made, but lingers on til this day. Read More
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"Hitting The Bricks" is a short history lesson of how to live the life of a full-on rock start, a fasinating true story of talent recognizing talent. Read More
Skip Spence - Canadian born songwriter, singer, guitarist, drummer (and a few other things), in many ways represents the essence of psychedelic weirdness, with all the brilliant music it produced as well as all personal pitfalls that came along with it. Read More
