Every single number that’s rolled in around Drake’s juggernaut new album Scorpion, from the size of its track list to the playback figures reported by streaming services, has been staggering. Within half a day of the record’s Friday morning release, Spotify announced that streams from it had climbed to 10 million an hour. Scorpion’s first-day streaming total on the service came out at 132 million. On Apple Music, that figure was 170 million. Those are the highest single-day streams ever...
Adeline, singer of nu-disco band Escort, achieves a “natural” high on her funky new slow jam “Emeralds.” “No drugs, no drinks, no pills; I don’t need to pretend,” she croons over slap-bass, psychedelic guitar lines and atmospheric synths. “No shame, no fucks to give; I’ll do it all again.” The vocalist paired her debut solo single with an impressionistic video in which she sings in a mirrored room and appears to levitate backwards off the ground. In a statement to...
Lilly Hiatt got a little assistance from friends Margo Price and Brandy Zdan on a fiery cover of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World,” captured by a fan at Hiatt’s Nashville show last Thursday. Appropriately, Hiatt’s own “Records” leads off the 10-minute performance at the Basement East. A searing rocker from her Trinity Lane album, the tune exalts her beloved LPs as being far more dependable than any boyfriend and even shouts out Neil Young in the bridge. As the...
Sheryl Crow says her next studio album will be her last. The singer-songwriter shared the news in a recent interview with radio host Kyle Meredith. “I made the decision in my head that the record that comes out next year will be my last full album and I’ll just start putting songs out. That feels good to me,” Crow says. “To not spend the time in the studio to make a fully realized conceptual album but just to put out...
Danish indie rocker Oh Land will return in 2019 with a new studio album, the artist’s first LP in five years. Oh Land (real name Nanna Øland Fabricius) will team with producer Thomas “Doveman” Bartlett – who worked on albums like Sufjan Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell and Florence and the Machine’s “Sky Full of Song” – for what she is touting as her most personal release yet. Oh Land last released her fourth album Earth Sick in 2014. “Since the...
One of pop’s central problems is that it’s always trying to be so damn popular. Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth aren’t, at least not in the usual boilerplate ways. They’re teenaged BFFs from Northeast England with a surrealist sense of humor, as their band name suggests. For the second Let’s Eat Grandma LP, <em>I’m All Ears</em>, they depart the willfully weird fringe territory of their debut for someplace nearer the mainstream, and the music is stronger for it — a balancing...
For a band that exudes such a peaceful, easy feeling in their music, the Wild Feathers sure have a hard time coming to rest. The Americana group have spent the better part of their eight years together grinding out the miles on tour, but when they sat down to work on their third LP, Greetings From the Neon Frontier, they had to re-learn how to chill out. The recording of their second album, the more experimental Lonely Is a Lifetime, all...
Drake‘s ambition grows more grandiose every year. In 2017, he released the genre-hopping, 22-song More Life playlist, which sounded like an attempt to conquer every sector of popular music at once. He one-upped himself last Friday with Scorpion, a 25-track double album designed to shock, awe and discombobulate. Pulpy Nineties R&B samples collide with piercing drums; morose singing drones beneath emphatic raps, modern Memphis hip-hop rubs up against retro New York boom-bap, slow-rolling Houston rhythms battle nervy New Orleans bounce,...
Panic! At the Disco scored their second straight Number One album as Brendon Urie and company’s new LP Pray for the Wicked opened atop the Billboard This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: On the Charts: Panic! At the Disco Take Number One With ‘Pray for the...
What makes a summer jam? Is it the sunniest chorus, the hottest beat, the most weeks on the charts? Do the lyrics have to be about beaches and barbecues, or is it a question of vibe? What if it’s a song on your summer playlist and no one else’s? We believe the answer is “all of the This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Selena Gomez’s ‘Back To You’ Is the Song of the...
The man accused of firing multiple gunshots at Lil Wayne’s tour bus in April 2015 had his conviction overturned Friday, just three years into This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Lil Wayne Tour Bus Shooter Has Conviction...
Given that Music From Big Pink came out in the turbulent summer of 1968, it’s tempting to frame the album as a set of soothing sounds for troubled times. Don’t believe it. The Band‘s debut LP was quietly radical. In a period when the musical landscape was overrun with psychedelic whimsy, their synthesis of country, blues, gospel, Western classical, and rock was enriching and inspiring. While Jimi Hendrix, Cream and the Who split eardrums with overdriven amplification, Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson,...
