Why Bonnie Depart Toward Love
We spoke with Blair Howerton in an exclusive profile upon the announcement of her band’s sophomore LP, Wish on the Bone. Watch the visualizer for “Fake Out” below. By Matt Mitchell [Paste Magazine] When you’re as influenced by Sheryl Crow and the Chicks as you are a “pop girly, through and through,” you’re bound to build a ...
Nick Lowe on Why He Made a New Rock Album: ‘People Want to Hear Short, Punchy Tunes’
The power-pop pioneer and former Rockpile member teams up with Los Straitjackets to release Indoor Safari, his first album of original songs in more than 12 years [Rolling Stone] In his rollicking new single “Went to a Party,” Nick Lowe puts on a “bad suit,” starts “jigging” to the music, is mistaken for Robyn Hitchcock, and ...
Influential Debut Album by the dB’s To Be Reissued and Available on Vinyl for the First Time
[Magnet] Stands For deciBels, the 1981 debut from the dB’s, didn’t make much of a commercial impression, but it enthralled a small legion of college-rock loyalists soon to swoon over bands like R.E.M., whose members are among the many who cite the LP as an inspiration. Ask a dB why the record has endured, and you ...
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Release Hypnotic Live Version of ‘When the Levee Breaks’: Listen
[Billboard] The nearly century-old country blues song has been a staple of the duo’s live sets for years. By Gil Kaufman Robert Plant has mostly kept his Led Zeppelin past at arms-length since the group officially disbanded in 1980. But there are a few songs from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band’s catalog that he has revisited and revised ...
See Soccer Mommy Bring Out Phoebe Bridgers for Elliott Smith Cover at L.A. Show
In addition to rendition of “The Biggest Lie,” Sophie Allison also debuts a handful of new songs at latest gig [Rolling Stone] BY DANIEL KREPS Soccer Mommy welcomed guest Phoebe Bridgers onstage Tuesday during her Los Angeles gig, with the duo delivering a rendition of Elliott Smith’s “The Biggest Lie.” Taking the stage at the Masonic ...
