Laura Jane Grace just made the feel good hit of the summer
The Against Me! singer recorded the sunny “Park Life Forever” with her eight-year-old daughter, Evelyn.
Is “Be My Baby” the first punk song ever?
To paraphrase Kim Gordon—England didn’t invent punk rock, girl groups did. In the early 1960s, teenage sisters Veronica and Estelle Bennett and their cousin, Nedra Talley had formed a singing group called the Ronettes. One night in 1961, the girls teased their hair and applied a glut of eyeliner in order to sneak into the…
Twitter is down and it’s amazing
For a brief-but-amazing time today, Twitter was broken. Over those enlightening thirty minutes or so, you couldn’t tweet your stupid thoughts, you couldn’t scroll through your stupid feed, and therefore, you couldn’t see what stupid thoughts other stupid people were tweeting. It was brilliant. Twitter controlled the damage by telling us that something was “technically…
Is “Train Kept A-Rollin’” the First Punk Song Ever?
Pinning down the first song written in any particular musical style is an impossible task. Genres don’t emerge fully formed from the mind of a single creator, even if they can sometimes look that way in retrospect. The closer you look, the blurrier things get. For every landmark release like “That’s Alright (Mama)” in the…
A Perfect Circle channels R.E.M. and sci-fi with new song
“So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish” is from the band’s first album in 14 yearsA Perfect Circle will release ‘Eat the Elephant’ on Friday, April 20. Today, the band released a new song called “So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish,” which pays tribute to R.E.M., The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and dead celebrities.
HD Vinyl is a thing that may exist soon
The time to re-purchase the Beatles’ White Album may once again be upon us, because high-definition vinyl is now a little bit closer to becoming a reality. According to Pitchfork, Austria-based startup Rebeat Innovation just received $4.8 million in funding on their HD vinyl project, and the company says that this cash will enable them…
The Riot Fest Week in Review
Week of April 2nd, 2018New music from The Cure, Alice Bag, Cherry Glazerr, Billie Joe Armstrong, The Bronx, The Lawrence Arms, L7, Johnny Cash, and more.
5 Janet Jackson hits that are basically industrial music
Janet Jackson is widely recognized one of the most influential female R&B artists of her generation, and one of the most successful pop stars of all time, but she rarely gets much credit for being the sonic innovator she is. Over the course of her career she and her longtime producers Jimmy Jam and Terry…
