This country duo has quietly racked up hits like “How Not To” and “From the Ground Up” since 2014, and they’ve taken their fair share of shit along the way for daring to have a softer, less rowdy presentation than their peers. On their self-titled third album, Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney maintain their low-key approach, delighting in simple, domestic pleasures and providing a reminder to pause This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Dan + Shay Kick up a...

This D.C. quartet’s terse debut grinds and giggles as it flips off the status quo, taking the old saw about dancing’s place in a revolution and repurposing it as a credo for a perpetual-motion, no-jerks-allowed mosh pit. Vocalist Adriana-Lucia Cotes has an urgent yelp that gives her bandmates’ spiky, nimble post-post-punk a giddy jolt, turning the beauty-myth broadside “Glamour” into a This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Mock Identity’s ‘Paradise’ is Explosive...

Steve Soto, a mainstay of the Southern California punk and hardcore scenes and the co-founder of two seminal outfits, the Adolescents and Agent Orange, died Wednesday. He was 54. While a cause of death has yet to be announced, the Adolescents’ Tony Reflex confirmed Soto’s death on Twitter. “With This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Steve Soto, Adolescents Founder and Punk Veteran, Dead at...

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: 5 Seconds of Summer’s ‘If Walls Could Talk’ Is the Song of the...

Depending on the time of day and the angle from which one chooses to assess their gloried runs, or the spiritual damage, the Jackson family saga can seem like either the African-American Dream or the Blackest Greek tragedy ever. Only in Black America – where the nation’s worst intentions battle with the better angels of its nature over the same double-consciousness riddled bodies – could the This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: It’s a Hard Knock Legacy: Appreciating the Lessons...

In a Vanity Fair cover story, Kendrick Lamar reacted to Kanye West‘s controversial comments about This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Kendrick Lamar Talks Kanye West, Fan’s Use of N-Word, Pulitzer...

The Smashing Pumpkins unveiled an utterly bizarre video for their new song “Solara.” The Nick Koenig-directed clip finds Billy Corgan being held captive in an otherworldly asylum. There, he This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Smashing Pumpkins Confront Surreal Horrors in ‘Solara’...

America’s biggest attempt at music copyright overhaul in decades, also known as the Music Modernization Act, passed unanimously in the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, meaning it now only needs to pass a full Senate vote before landing on the This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: The Music Modernization Act Is One Step Closer to Fixing Music...

Gwen Stefani opened her Las Vegas residency, Gwen Stefani – I’m Just a Girl, with an unexpected cover of Rihanna’s “Umbrella.” Stefani delivered a faithful This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Gwen Stefani Covers Rihanna at First Night of Las Vegas...

Sterling Campbell had co-founded a cassette label and a VHS tape label in Ottawa, but needed a new creative outlet after moving back to Cornwall, Ontario, to be closer to his daughter. “I was like, ‘I need to start something up for myself here,'” he says. “‘What’s the most ridiculous thing I could do right now?'” The answer was Strudelsoft, the label that the 36-year-old bills as This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Revolution at 3.5″: Inside Vaporwave’s Floppy Disk...

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: Harry Styles’ ‘Carolina’ Is the Song of the...

Stephanie Hwang was 15 when she left her native California for Seoul, South Korea, where she hoped to become a music star. Within two years, the teenager – now going by the stage name of Tiffany – made her debut with Girls’ Generation, which would become one of the most successful K-Pop groups ever. “It wasn’t easy in the beginning, because I was in Korea without my family and I couldn’t speak This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Tiffany Young...

Spotify’s RapCaviar and ¡Viva Latino! playlists, already some of the most powerful spheres of influence in the music industry, are now also looking to be some of the most lucrative. The music-streaming service announced tour dates this week for “¡Viva Latino! Live,” a concert series featuring popular Latin music artists from its playlist of the same name that boasts more than 8 million This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: The Biggest New Artist on Tour in 2018 Is…...

Earlier this year, sibling pop trio AJR released “Burn the House Down,” their first single since their hit 2017 album The Click. Little did members Adam, Jack and Ryan Met know that the song would end up becoming part of a greater cause. The energetic track, meant to reflect the current American political climate, has been adopted by the March for Our Lives campaign, appearing in This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: AJR on Their March for Our Lives Anthem and...

Charli XCX struts around an empty warehouse in the new video for her late-night, pop-trap jam, “5 in the Morning.” It’s her first solo offering since she released her Pop 2 This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Charli XCX’s Sultry New ‘5 In the Morning’...

Bebe Rexha’s voice makes a quirky, squirmy sound that may not be your cup of squeak. But if it is, then it’s crazily irresistible and, given the right melody, unstoppable. Her serpentine wail is the precious ingredient in some of today’s biggest hits, the factor that’s turned otherwise bland songs like Louis Tomlinson’s “Back to You” and Florida Georgia Line’s “Meant to Be” into body-rocking This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Bebe Rexha’s...

“I gotta say, when it comes down to discovering weird samples, that dude’s kind of all over it,” says Now Again Records founder Eothen “Egon” Alapatt of Kanye West, the superstar producer who’s dropped five sample-soaked releases in the past five This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Kanye West’s Summer of Samples: How Two Reissue Labels Helped Make Wyoming...

The family and record label of Vinnie Paul has announced a public memorial for the late Pantera drummer. “Vinnie Paul: A Public Celebration of Life” will take place Sunday, July 1st – the day after Paul’s private funeral in his native Texas – at Dallas’ Bomb Factory venue. Fans hoping to attend the memorial must receive a This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Vinnie Paul: Public Memorial Announced for Pantera...

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: Tove Styrke’s ‘Say My Name’ Is the Song of the...

Three days after undergoing surgery on his broken hand, Tom Morello was back onstage in Stockholm, Sweden, performing live with Prophets of Rage, the supergroup/“elite task force of revolutionary musicians” featuring members of Rage Against the This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Watch Injured Tom Morello Recruit Fan for Rage Against the Machine...