Mixed Bizness: A Playlist of Beck’s Musical Inspiration
Where does he get all those wonderful sounds? Everywhere.Crank this playlist, and read on. You just may learn something. In the beginning, people struggled to even describe what Beck’s music sounded like. Reading through early reviews of “Loser”—his 1994 breakthrough single and trademark anthem—it almost seems as though critics were taking a musical Rorschach test. Some heard the funky drum loop from…
Stream “Disconnected”, From The Upcoming Face to Face Acoustic Album
Face To Face announced a new album last week, and now there’s proof. Hold Fast, featuring 10 of the band’s classic jams stripped down, acoustic-style, arrives July 27 via Fat Wreck Chords. And thanks to Dying Scene’s reveal of the track this morning, we now know it’s not all some big hoax. So check out…
Stream “Disconnected” From The Upcoming Face to Face Acoustic Album
Face To Face announced a new album last week, and now there’s proof. Hold Fast, featuring 10 of the band’s classic jams stripped down, acoustic-style, arrives July 27 via Fat Wreck Chords. And thanks to Dying Scene’s reveal of the track this morning, we now know it’s not all some big hoax. So check out…
Watch Johnny Marr Perform A New Song From His Upcoming Album
Johnny Marr is ramping up a new album, Call the Comet. The Smiths guitarist’s third solo LP is scheduled for release on June 15 via New Voodoo. “I wouldn’t call it a concept record,” Marr explained to NME, “but it’s got a unifying theme going through it about the Earth welcoming a different intelligence from the cosmos…
Crank It or Spank It: The Many Moods of the San Diego Slasher, Hot Snakes’ Swami John Reisenigk
Autodiscography Picks the Brains Behind Drive Like Jehu, Rocket From the Crypt, and More“I’m always writing. I’m always playing. I’m always listening to music, thinking ‘What next?’”
Check Out This New Bullet For My Valentine Song
“Letting You Go” is from the band’s forthcoming new album, ‘Gravity’Bullet For My Valentine just released “Letting You Go,” the third track from the Welsh metal phenoms’ forthcoming album, Gravity—due out June 29 via Search & Destroy/Spinefarm Records. Watch a new video for the song below. According to the band’s frontman, Matt Tuck, this particular song was “very challenging to write in so many ways,” and…
Layaway: The Wise Way to Pay For Riot Fest Tickets Today
While Riot Fest charges less money for tickets than most major festivals, sometimes that’s still too much dough for the budget-conscious festival goer to scrounge up at once. That’s why we offer a service to pay off your Riot Fest tickets like Johnny Cash builds a car: one (monthly) piece at a time. We’re pleased…
We Sorted This Year’s Riot Fest Lineup By Myers-Briggs Types, Like a True ENTJ
Or is it INTP?By now you’ve probably checked out the stellar lineup for this year’s Riot Fest, coming to Chicago’s Douglas Park this September 14-16. As you look down the list—from top-line legends like Beck, Blink-182, and Elvis Costello all the way to the budding talent holding down the undercard—you might be feeling some decision overload. “How am…
