Billy Joel was about halfway through his eighth studio album, The Nylon Curtain, and sensing the creative strain. He turned that feeling into the album’s lead single. “The pressure I was writing about in this song wasn’t necessarily music business pressure. It was writing pressure,” Joel told MTV’s Night School in 1982. “I said, ‘I […]
If you ever thought “What would be the most Kid Rock fan thing to do?,” then we may have an answer. Recently, in Wheeling, Virginia, a woman was arrested after a Kid Rock concert at the Pavilion at Star Lake. The town’s police said they responded to a fender bender, and multiple people at the […]
This new Counterparts single is killer, man. From the driving verses to the massive choruses, it’s the kind of song that’s going to tear you between wanting to throw down and wanting to stand there and scream the lyrics at the top of your lungs. Maybe try to do both at once? Lyrically, Counterparts vocalist […]
The Cult has released a new song titled “A Cut Inside” and revealed the full track listing for their new album Under the Midnight Sun, which arrives on Oct. 7. You can listen to the new song and see the full track listing below. “A Cut Inside” is the second song released from Under the Midnight […]
If you’re an Alice In Chains fan, you obviously know about ‘Dirt,’ yes, that’s right – arguably Alice’s best album was ‘Dirt’ and the legacy that has been spawned in the music world from that album is severely underrated. One might think that Alice In Chains were not as mainstream successful as bands such as […]
Not long ago, producer Giles Martin wasn’t sure four-track-era Beatles albums like Revolver could be properly remixed. The tech, he said then, wasn’t there yet. “That’s a good example of, ‘How do we do that?’” Martin told Rolling Stone in 2021. “How do I make sure that John [Lennon] or Paul [McCartney]’s vocal isn’t just in […]
Wolfgang Van Halen has posted about playing at Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert, “What an amazing young man Shane Hawkins is. We unfortunately have too much in common. I envy his strength, because I certainly don’t have it. Watching him with tears in my eyes obliterate My Hero just like his father in front […]
Darkthrone released Eternal Hails in 2021 and they’re already back with a brand new record! Darkthrone has announced Astral Fortress for October 28, which they’re describing as both vintage-sounding with its use of mellotron and synthesizer, and “seething with hell” in terms of lyrics. It’s also Darkthrone, so I’m not sure why anyone would expect […]
“I’ve tried to make something indescribable,” Billy Corgan told MTV in 1998, previewing the retooled sound of Smashing Pumpkins‘ polarizing fourth LP, Adore. A noble mission — but also a difficult one: The album’s folky reveries and cushy electronics didn’t fit the Pumpkins mold of the previous seven years, leaving behind the proggy guitar solos, virtuoso drumming and […]
Tracking their full story as a band Enter Shikari are set to release their first ever authorised biography, ‘Standing Like Statues’, on October 26. Written by Luke Morton and published by Faber Music, it “tells the Shikari story through a series of comprehensive interviews with all members of the band and the team that surrounds […]