Depeche Mode founder Martin Gore will release MG, a solo LP of 16 electronic instrumentals, on April 28th via Mute. Gore began work on the album following the March 2013 conclusion of Depeche Mode’s Delta Machine tour, writing and producing the material at his home studio in Santa Barbara, California.  In a… Source: RollingStone Link: Depeche […]

Bob Dylan mined the Frank Sinatra catalog for his new covers album Shadows in the Night, and for the video for the 1940s standard “The Night We Called It a Day,” the rock legend revisits the stark black-and-white, smoky nightclubs and double-crossing of that decade’s film noir. In the video, Dylan and a well-connected… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

Last June, Halestorm singer-guitarist Lzzy Hale’s name trended on Twitter — spelled incorrectly. She had just joined country superstar Eric Church for a rafter-shaking duet on his “That’s Damn Rock & Roll” at the NBC-televised CMT Music Awards and stolen the show. Viewers bombarded social media with raves about “Lizzy Hale.” It was… Source: RollingStone Link: Watch […]

The battle over “Blurred Lines” continues in a Los Angeles courtroom as Robin Thicke, T.I. and Pharrell Williams face off against the Marvin Gaye estate over whether the Worst Song of 2013 infringed on the soul singer’s “Got to Give It Up.” After the “Blurred Lines” creators preemptively sued the Gaye estate in September… Source: RollingStone Link: Robin Thicke […]

Forty years ago, Bad Company followed their self-titled debut with the chart-topping, five-times platinum Straight Shooter. “Feel Like Makin’ Love,” the record’s second single, has since become a fixture of classic rock radio, and a new deluxe edition of the album exhumes a different version of the track. Hear this… Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Bad […]

When Mumford & Sons’ bassist Ted Dwane showed up at his London studio early last year to begin work on the group’s third album, he was confronted with a surprise: a room full of synthesizers. “It was bizarre,” he says. “I didn’t expect we were going to do the same thing… Source: RollingStone Link: Mumford & […]

Three years ago, teen-pop phenom Carly Rae Jepsen scored a massive breakthrough hit with “Call Me Maybe,” a dance-pop dedication to an inconvenient whirlwind meet-cute. But the singer sounds more confident in her romantic feelings with new single “I Really Like You.” “I really, really, really, really, really, really like you,”… Source: RollingStone Link: Carly Rae […]

Last June, Parquet Courts visited the Nashville studios of Third Man Records, playing tracks from Sunbathing Animal and 2013’s Tally All The Things That You Broke for a small, sweaty crowd. The set was recorded directly to acetate, and tomorrow, it will be released as the group’s first live album…. Source: RollingStone Link: Hear Parquet […]

Faith No More will return with Sol Invictus, the band’s first album since 1997, on May 19th, and after trumpeting their comeback with first single “Motherfucker” and “Cone of Shame,” the “Epic” crew have unveiled another new cut: the pulverizing, hypnotic “Superhero.” The song, fittingly, debuted at Marvel.com, where Faith No More bassist… Source: RollingStone Link: Faith No […]

Orrin Keepnews, an NEA Jazz Master, Thelonious Monk producer, record exec and four-time Grammy winner, passed away today at his home in El Cerrito, California at the age of 91, one day shy of his 92nd birthday. Keepnews’ son Peter, an editor for the New York Times, confirmed his father’s… Source: RollingStone Link: Orrin Keepnews, […]