Dashboard Confessional unveiled a stirring new song, “Heart Beat Here,” set to appear on their upcoming LP, Crooked Shadows, out February 9th via Fueled by Ramen. “Heart Beat Here” is a quintessential Dashboard ballad, with Chris Carrabba delivering a powerful vocal performance over steady acoustic strumming. A small string section sweeps sweetly into the song as Carrabba hits the chorus, belting, “I feel it in my ribs/ I feel it in my soul/ The pulse just grows/ So loud and...
Ahead of his new LP ‘Freedom’s Goblin,’ underground rock king Ty Segall reflects on his tireless work ethic and the weirdness of semi-fame. Denée Segall Ty Segall is about to be on TV and he looks a little nervous. Not that the fiery, prolific rocker hasn’t already made the rounds on the late-night circuit, but as the first musical guest on Comedy Central’s parody news show The Opposition With Jordan Klepper, he’ll find himself on the air without a guitar in...
Franz Ferdinand offered a theatrical flair to their manic dance-rock single “Always Ascending” on Thursday’s Tonight Show. The band opened on a dimly lit stage, with singer Alex Kapranos crooning over billowing vocal harmonies. Strobe lights flickered as the song erupted with tense guitar riffs and four-on-the-floor drums. In the trimmed-back outro, Kapranos struck a series of dramatic poses. In December, the Scottish quintet issued a dreamlike video for the synth-fueled song “Always Ascending,” the first...
At the time of Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan’s death earlier this week, she was set to revisit her band’s poignant 1994 hit, “Zombie,” with a heavy-metal band. Bad Wolves, a new group consisting of former members of DevilDriver, In This Moment and God Forbid, had recorded a version of the song a few months ago for their upcoming debut album, and Dan Waite, a friend of O’Riordan’s who works at the band’s label, sent it to her to get her...
Fall Out Boy played a hard-hitting, guitar-heavy version of “Hold Me Tight or Don’t” on Thursday’s The Late Show. The quartet did without their usual stage pyrotechnics for the electro-rock track, which highlights their newly issued seventh LP, Mania. Singer Patrick Stump nailed every melismatic fill in his bombastic lead vocal. Drummer Andy Hurley anchored the song with his Latin-tinged groove – veering from digital snare hits to shakers to prominent accents on the ride cymbal. Mania was originally due...
Kylie Minogue released her new song “Dancing,” the euphoric first single her upcoming album Golden. “Lyrically, ‘Dancing’ is really interesting. I guess, on the surface, it is about dancing and going out and having a good fun,” the Australian pop star said of the single in a promo on Twitter. “And it’s also about going out, at the end, and having had a good time. So living life to the fullest, trying to shine whenever you can. I know life...
With Facebook de-prioritizing news stories in its users feeds, some nearly two billion Facebook devotees are going to see big changes in their news consumption habits. And of course, hundreds of publishers are going to see big changes in their revenue and audience-growth models. This week, we talk about news on the internet—how we read it, where we read it, and how we share it. We also say farewell to David Pierce, who is leaving WIRED this week. This will...
The Eagles have settled a lawsuit filed last year to prevent a Mexican hotel from calling itself Hotel California. The hoteliers, Hotel California Baja LLC, withdrew their application for a U.S. trademark, according to Reuters. The decision to dismiss the suit was mutual. The band had sued the company, which operates the Todos Santos hotel in Baja California Sur, with the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, but both parties agreed to call it off Wednesday. The news services said...
Joe Perry discusses his star-studded new solo album, a fiery gig with special guests in L.A., and his future plans with Aerosmith and other projects. Steve Thrasher Aerosmith’s Joe Perry knows something about getting lost in the moment. It happened for the latest time during the final seconds of his show this week celebrating the release of a new solo album at the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood, where guitarists Perry, Slash, Johnny Depp and Dean DeLeo of Stone Temple...
Like Brits did with U.S. punk, Swedes Klara and Johanna Söderberg repurposed Davis Sisters-style country harmony on their 2012 breakthrough “Emmylou” into a bright new thing, laying into notes like they were tunnel-boring through glaciers. Producing their fourth set, folk-rock impressionist Tucker Martine (Neko Case, My Morning Jacket, Sufjan Stevens, the Decemberists) helps shape a dreamy grandeur, with touches of pedal steel and Peter Buck’s guitar atmospherics, while a damaged romance bleeds across a widescreen...
“It’s giving me a heart attack-ack-ack” blurts Merrill Garbus at the start the first Tune-Yards release in nearly four years. What’s “it”? Take your pick – global warming (the funky single “ABC 123” invokes Elizabeth Kolbert’s tour de force The Sixth Extinction), gender tyrannies (“I don’t wanna be a woman/If it means not being a human” Garbus insists on “Now As Then”), the weight of racial history (she interrogates “the blood in my voice” on...
After showing off his dance-pop chops on “My, My, My!” Troye Sivan has returned with a second and much softer taste of his sophomore album. The 22-year-old will be the musical guest on Saturday Night Live on January 20th. On “The Good Side,” Sivan channels Sufjan Stevens’ sorrowful balladry. The tender, acoustic song offers up an apology from Sivan. “But I sympathize and I recognize/And baby I apologize/ That I got the good side/ The good side of things,” he...
Ty Dolla $ign and YG unveiled a vibrant new video for “Ex,” their collaboration from the R&B star’s 2017 album, Beach House 3. “Ex” boasts a throwback Nineties beat based around a sample of 112’s “Only You” featuring the Notorious B.I.G. and Mase. The David Camarena-directed clip fittingly finds Ty Dolla $ign and YG sauntering through lively party scenes and driving lowriders outfitted with hydraulics. Ty Dolla $ign will embark on a North American trek in support of Beach House 3...
U2 rail against President Trump and the Ku Klux Klan in the new video for “Get Out of Your Own Way.” The animated clip was developed by the Broken Fingaz Crew, an Israeli graffiti collective. The imagery in the video alternates between images of anguish – a woman crying, a skull enveloped by flames – and direct political references: Ku Klux Klan members march across the screen, torches in hand, while President Trump looks on from the Oval Office. In...
A little more than 4,600 days have passed since Tool released their most recent album, 2006’s prog-metal odyssey 10,000 Days. It’s a fact that the band is highly aware of, as they’ve labored on a follow-up and humbly answered questions about the would-be record’s progress during the past 12 years. Now it seems they’re closer than ever to completing the album, with drummer Danny Carey saying emphatically that they’ll “definitely” put out an LP this year. Here, we’ve combed through...
R&B singer Tinashe teamed with Migos rapper Offset on the undulant new song, “No Drama.” The track boasts slinky production from Stargate who ladles on heavy bass swells, light-yet-sinister synths and crisp percussion. Tinashe delivers two verses packed with alluring vocal lines and clever lyrics, including a Mean Girls reference, “I need 60 bad bitches acting like they single/ Yelling, ‘You can’t sit with us,’ throwing up middle fingers.” Offset follows with his characteristic triplet flow,...
Veteran indie outfit Yo La Tengo unveiled four new songs from their upcoming album, There’s a Riot Going On, out March 16th via Matador. The album is available to pre-order, with new tracks “You Are Here,” “Shades of Blue,” “She May, She Might” and “Out of the Pool” available to hear now. The four offerings from There’s a Riot Going On find Yo La Tengo explore an array of sounds. “You Are Here” is a sprawling instrumental that builds from a lone...
Brazilian Girls will release their first album in 10 years, Let’s Make Love, on April 13th via Six Degrees Records. The alternative-dance quartet teased the LP with lead single “Pirates,” a barrage of springy synthesizers and singer Sabina Sciubba’s staccato vocal lines. In a statement, Sciubba detailed the positive inspiration behind the LP. “Right now ‘Let’s Make Love’ seems like a very good message to put into the world,” she said. “It’s not even ‘Make love, not...
Haim will kick off a 21-date North American tour this spring in support of their latest album, Something to Tell You. 50 Best Songs of 2017 Cardi B’s money moves, Harry Styles’ classic rock breakout, the record-breaking “Despacito” and more The Sister Sister Sister tour begins April 3rd at Schnitzer Hall in Portland, Oregon and wraps May 28th at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado. The trek includes sets at Coachella, as well as stops in Seattle, Austin, Atlanta, Nashville,...
Jimmy Fallon and the Roots picked up their classroom instruments and Ray-Bans on Wednesday to record a breezy version of “Havana” with Camila Cabello. Two members of the Roots replicated the piano-heavy groove of “Havana” with a cheerful melodica and a tinny xylophone. The rapper Black Thought chipped in by tapping out the beat on a triangle. Cabello started the performance tentatively, but soon she was commanding the room: salsa dancing in place, waving her sunglasses, loudly counting the rhythm...
