ALBUM OF THE WEEK: Courtney Barnett, Tell Me How You Really FeelThe Melbourne axe-slinger’s second album “is noisy and way more pissed off than her 2015 debut, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, unsheathing sharp new earnestness alongside her trademark sabers of sarcasm and penetrating observation,” This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: 10 New Albums to Stream Now: Courtney Barnett, Stephen Malkmus, Lil Baby and More Editors’...

Cheap Trick embrace eternal sunshine on the rousing new song “The Summer Looks Good on You.” The power-pop band open with a blast of Queen-like vocal harmonies before settling into a bluesy hard-rock riff. “Yellow and beige shines through the haze as the holidays wait for you,” frontman Robin Zander This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Hear Cheap Trick’s Hard-Hitting New Song From 20th...

Shawn Mendes laments the brevity of a one-night stand on his new single “Where Were You in the Morning?” The singer-songwriter croons over layered, fingerpicked guitars. The track builds with a funky bassline, chiming piano, finger snaps and snippets of electronics – all anchoring his smooth falsetto. “You didn’t leave your number for me/ Left me without a warning,” he sings. “How do This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Hear Shawn Mendes’ Soulful New Song ‘Where Were...

In 2017, BTS boldly went where no K-Pop group had gone before, cracking the American Top 40 with a remix of their “Mic Drop” single featuring Steve Aoki and Desiigner. Love Yourself: Tear is the first all-new album from the seven-piece ensemble since this breakthrough. (April’s Face Yourself was mostly a repackaging of previously released songs for the Japanese market.) But This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: BTS’ ‘Love Yourself: Tear’ Is K-Pop With Genre-Hopping...

Phantogram released a poignant new single, “Someday,” as part of a mental health initiative. All proceeds from sales and streams of the track – and its B-side, an atmospheric cover of Sparklehorse ballad “Saturday” – will benefit the American Foundation for Suicide This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Phantogram Channel Personal Tragedy on New Song for Suicide...

The title is a giveaway. Low Cut Connie’s fifth album draws on the same sessions – at Ardent Studios in Memphis – that propelled this Philadelphia band’s 2017 blast of Fifties-infused glam-punk hallelujah, Dirty Pictures (Part 1). But these ten tracks, mostly written by singer-pianist Adam Weiner, are hardly leftovers. In fact, the opening sequence is a knockout. “All These Kids Are Way This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Low Cut Connie’s ‘Dirty Pictures (Part 2)’ Is...

As the list of fraud accusations against Jay-Z’s Tidal increases, the music-streaming service is countering with its own investigation – not into the accuracy of its data, but into how that data had been potentially breached. Norwegian financial newspaper Dagens Næringsliv published an extensive report last week saying it had This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Tidal Hits Back Against Rumors of Wrongdoing With Its Own...

Courtney Barnett performed her scorching power-pop anthem “Nameless, Faceless” on Thursday’s This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Courtney Barnett Play Scorching ‘Nameless, Faceless’ on...

Ariana Grande opened up about the Manchester terror attack outside her concert and how that experience informed her upcoming album Sweetener in This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Ariana Grande on Manchester Attack: ‘Processing Is Going to Take...

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Back in 2013, Courtney Barnett covered Kanye West’s ‘Black Skinhead’ on Australian radio as a guitar-charged glam-grunge stomp, reframing its outrage in her bedhead Melbourne white-girl flow. It was a questionable yet telling move for a fellow verbose storyteller, delivered just as her single “Avant Gardener” – a deceptively offhand first-person account of an asthma attack – announced the This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Courtney Barnett’s Raging, Empathetic...

Liam Payne and J Balvin performed their suave single “Familiar” on Thursday’s Late Show. The duo traded hooks while bouncing around a stage that recreated a busy city street. Neon-tinted signs lit up like flashy storefronts displayed the song’s lyrics during the chorus. The This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Liam Payne, J Balvin Perform Summer Jam ‘Familiar’ on...

Jessie Reyez examines how women through the eras have paid the price for injustice and gender inequality in the empowering new video for “Body Count.” In the Peter Huang-directed video – filmed in Reyez’s Toronto hometown – Reyez has apparently This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Jessie Reyez Channels Salem Witch Trials for Empowering ‘Body Count’...

Steven Tyler stopped by The Late Late Show to play a few rounds of “Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts,” a Truth or Dare of sorts where the Aerosmith singer and James Corden must either say something revealing or eat This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Steven Tyler Reveal Secrets or Eat Gross Foods on...

ABC has unveiled the new trailer for its upcoming documentary, The Last Days of Michael Jackson. The two-hour special features never-before-seen interviews with the late singer conducted by ABC News anchors Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer. The documentary traces Jackson’s rise as the King of This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: ‘Last Days of Michael Jackson’ Trailer: Doc Features Never-Before-Seen...

Dave Matthews Band‘s longtime violinist Boyd Tinsley has been sued for sexual harassment by musician James Frost-Winn. Tinsley recruited the trumpeter for the band the violinist assembled called Crystal Garden. The suit, obtained by Rolling Stone, claims that Tinsley “discovered” Winn in 2007 when he was This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Dave Matthews Band’s Boyd Tinsley Sued for Sexual...

“You should see the wall of ambivalence I’m building!” sang Andrew Savage on his band’s 2013 stoned ‘n’ starving slacker-rock breakthrough Light Up Gold. He sure as shit ain’t ambivalent now. “Allow me to ponder the role I play/In this pornographic spectacle of black death!” he hollers on “Violence,” a standout on his band’s fifth LP that conjures both the Fall and Fear Of This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Parquet Courts’...

The greatest story in Nineties indie-rock was watching Pavement grow from boutique noise aesthetes into one of America’s truly fine bands. In the 19 years since they closed up shop, it’s been equally fun seeing frontman Stephen Malkmus relax into an excellent solo career marked by a warmth, humor and generosity, growing past his early days as the “ironic” “Prince of Slack.” Over the course of This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks’...

The seminal reggae label Trojan Records will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year with a slew of musical releases, a new documentary and a handful of live events. Founded in 1968 by Lee Gopthal and Chris Blackwell, two Jamaican ex-pats living in London, Trojan helped introduce an array of reggae artists to mainstream audiences. The label’s catalog includes music from Lee “Scratch” This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Reggae Label Trojan Records Details 50th Anniversary...

Anderson .Paak unveiled a bold new song “Bubblin,” his second track of 2018. The song premiered on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show Thursday.  “Bubblin” boasts a stomping drum beat and a striking mix of synths, strings and horns that Paak This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Hear Anderson Paak’s New High-Speed Song...