When Oklahoma retro-rock revivalist JD McPherson decided to record his first-ever Christmas album, Socks, he asked himself one key question. “What do we exclude?” says McPherson. “What are the first things that most bands want to do when making a Christmas record and how do we not do those things?” …
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“Sicko Mode” might be a song of the year contender, and the most popular song on Travis Scott‘sAstroworld. But real Astroheads and Travaholics know that “Yosemite,” featuring Gunna and Nav, is the album’s brightest moment. Thankfully, the holiday season can begin now that Travis has delivered his latest gift, the …
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With the number of days in the 115th session of Congress rapidly dwindling, GOP senators are turning on their turbojets, determined to confirm a slate of federal judges before the term ends and they are forced to start the process of nominating and holding hearings from scratch. The problem, for …
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System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian, who has been writing film scores for some years now, has composed the music for the disaster film Spitak. Ahead of its U.S. premiere in Glendale, California on December 7th, Tankian is releasing its soundtrack album via his Serjical Strike Records imprint in …
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Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford, Jr., was a good guy, if you believe his mama. “Emantic was that person who people went to when they needed someone to talk to,” April Pipkins tells Rolling Stone on Monday, four days after her son, known as “EJ,” was shot to death by a police …
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Standing onstage during the final moments of this year’s Americana Music Festival in Nashville, Chris Shiflett glanced into the wings, cracked a grin and motioned for Elizabeth Cook to join him at the microphone. The two had crossed paths while recording an episode of Shiflett’s biweekly podcast, Walking the Floor, …
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When Bob Lewis packed up his stuff and left Northeastern Pennsylvania for Nashville in 2014, he put a period on his involvement in the punk and hardcore scene that he helped define in the depressed coal-mining region. Bands like Lewis’s Bedford, Jay Morgans’ Soughwutt and Burial Ground offered an outlet …
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Over the years, Annie Clark, who performs as St. Vincent, has presented herself as an 18th-century–dressed robot who dances on her tippytoes, a twee piano crooner, a sort of modern-day Louis Prima and, most recently, a guitar-eviscerating neon space alien. “I think it’s cool that some people hate it,” she …
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Arriving just in time to win a place among the year’s worst films, Robin Hood — bursting with an entitled sense of its own non-existent coolness — falls flat on its fat one. It’s the umpteenth version of the heroic outlaw story, once more taking on the merry man that …
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Anderson .Paak’s third LPOxnardis his first release on Dr. Dre’s Aftermath label, andfor longtime fans It’s been interesting (and maybe a bit worrying) to watch him scale up his career goals to meet the ambitions of his new corporate benefactors. There have been subtle placements of his music in NBA …
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