Vincent to Moses Sumney to J Balvin, came together on The Metallica Blacklist to pay tribute to the band’s 1991 classic, The Black Album, it was just more proof of how vast their influence has been. In honor of
After Bob Dylan’s soft-rock classic John Wesley Harding was released in 1967, publicist Michael Goldstein, who worked for Dylan’s manager Albert Grossman, gave Jimi Hendrix a copy of the record. Hendrix then took one of the songs, “All Along the Watchtower,” essentially attached a bunch...
Another acoustic classic that’s easy to miss, mostly by virtue of the band’s memorable leather-clad performance in the video, with Brian May opting to play the entire song on an entirely inaudible, oh-so-rock ‘n’ roll black Fender Telecaster that actually only crops up in the song’...
The first single written specifically forFaceless, “Straight Out of Line” starts with explosions, whirring helicopter blades, and shouted military commands, before launching into a far more complex song than its intro would suggest. The music opens with a lurching, enigmatic bass and drum-heavy ...
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throbs with the insistent kick drum, funky guitar, and arpeggiated synths of classic giorgio moroder. tesfaye coos soulfully, deploying his upper register while describing a woman who asks to indulge a fantasy that sounds a lot like erotic asphyxiation. “bring me close to heaven, babe,” she...
The real drummer George had planned to use was late, so he kept the Linn drum beat he’d used on the demo. Heralded as a surefire No.1 – the duo believed it would enter at that position, something very few acts managed in those days – it entered at No.4 and jitterbugged to ...
There’s a loose formula to Jeff Rosenstock songs: shouted choruses, rapidfire tempos, even faster strumming. But the DIY-punk lifer seems hell-bent on switching things up with his fifth solo album,HELLMODE. Even with shinier production and mid-tempo indie rock pivots like “GRAVEYARD SONG” ...
- and, as well as the expected acoustic and electric pianos, strings, organs and pads, you also get a multitude of modern synth tones and drum sets. Performance: But don't worry, it still very much feels like a digital piano. Featuring the beloved PHA-4 keybed - with Escapement and ...
From the sharp intake of a drum roll that opens the song to the scuzzy, major-key blowout that offers a long-awaited catharsis, “Midnight Sun” uses rock’s ominous side to ward off an unidentified threat. Consider it a talisman for a new decade of misinformation, paranoia, and emotional...