“I know what I’m doin’/Baby, don’t fuck with me,” warns Seratones singer A.J. Haynes in “Gotta Get to Know Ya,” the lead single from the Shreveport, Louisiana-based band’s new album Power (out August 23rd). It’s not intended as a brush-off, but rather a statement of agency and setting the pace …
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Pixies have announced their first album in three years,Beneath the Eyrie, out September 13th. The band also shared the spooky lead single, “On Graveyard Hill,” with an animated visual. Per a press release, Pixies’ eighth studio album will feature 12 songs dealing with “witches, Daniel Boone, misfits” and other haunted …
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Jack Antonoff made a guest appearance on Saturday’s episode of Sesame Street, where the Bleachers‘ frontman joined Oscar the Grouch and his pals, the Grouches, for an endearing rendition of the series’ classic “I Love Trash.” When Antonoff begins singing the track, Oscar cuts him off saying, “Stop, stop, stop. …
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Diplo, Herve Pagez and Charli XCX teamed up for a new track, “Spicy,” which reworks Spice Girls‘ 1996 classic “Wannabe.” The trio also dropped a futuristic music video for the song, directed by Reed + Rader, which features magical flying dolphins. The buoyant pop song replaces the signature chorus with …
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13th Floor Elevators frontman Roky Erickson, a psychedelic rock icon whose career was cut short due to debilitating mental illness and years spent in a Texas mental hospital, has died of unknown causes at age 71. “Roky Erickson, an heroic icon of modern rock & roll and one of the …
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Alt-rock and country music may seem like strange bedfellows, but in the hands of Mike and the Moonpies they go together like chili and cornbread. In honor of the 45th anniversary of the Hole in the Wall, the Austin bar in which they got their start, the Texas-based road warriors …
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“It’s about saying things al chile!” says Lila Downs backstage at the Center for the Arts in Escondido, where she’s about to perform cuts from her latest studio album, Al Chile. Just like the Mexican expression conveys — roughly meaning “straight up” — the folk singer has been keeping it …
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Shane McAnally likes to talk about the point in a writing session when songwriters hear a phrase or melody that makes them completely unable to think about anything else until the song is done. He calls it “the bubble.” “[It’s] where you can no longer have a conversation about anything …
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Keith Richards has always been the picture of effortless cool, and now a new photo exhibition will attempt to capture his mystique. The Morrison Hotel Gallery‘s “Keith, Unfiltered” showcase features images of the Rolling Stones guitarist taken during the past 50-plus years with images by a who’s who of rock …
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Five-piece pop group Why Don’t We shared their latest song “Unbelievable” on Monday, accompanied by a very cheeky lyric video. The clip shows the five group members streaking bare-naked across a desert plain, with the song’s lyrics superimposed over their….well, where they can make sure that it’s a PG-rated video. …
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