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How Lucius Made the Band Uniform Cool Again
By simply getting dressed and appearing onstage, even the most fashion-averse musicians can become synonymous with a certain look. But when musicians make their style aesthetic central to their overall...
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Bonnie Raitt On Her Legacy of Playing Hard, Working Harder
Bonnie Raitt has won 10 Grammys and sold millions of albumswithout wavering from her artistic instincts and integrity. After nearly five decades of combining blues, country, and folk into a signature...
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Stephen Malkmus On Scoring TV and Covering “Margaritaville”
"Flaked" is a Netflix series released last week that revolves around Chip, a man in his late-thirties whose idea of telling the truth is constantly telling lies. Set in the gentrifying neighborhood of...
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10 Excellent Grateful Dead Covers Not by Jam Bands
Grateful Dead fans rejoiced at yesterday's news that the National have finally set a May 20th release date for their long-anticipated Dead tribute album, Day of the Dead. Featuring 59 covers from...
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A Visual History of Battles (the Band)
Battles bassist and guitarist Dave Konopka holds down what he calls a "full-time side job" — as the experimental rockers' art director. As such, the Massachusetts College of Art and Design alum has...
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Icebreaker: Jessy Lanza on Trump and Kanye's Similarities, Why She Wants to...
Our new interview series Icebreaker features artists talking about things—some strange, some amusing, some meaningful—that just might reveal their true selves. First up is Canadian pop experimentalist...
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Three Months of Privately Mourning David Bowie in Public
The most cathartic moment of last week’s two Music of David Bowie tribute shows came about halfway through Thursday night’s program. Michael Stipe stepped out onto the stage at New York’s Carnegie Hall...
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Charles Bradley Thinks the System Is Still Fucked
Traditionally, at the end of a rousing production, an audience tossing roses on the stage to laud the performers isn’t an uncommon practice. At a Charles Bradley concert, that flower-flinging wave of...
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Popping the Drop: A Timeline of How EDM’s Bubble Burst
The only thing the media loves more than a success story is a spectacular fall, and thus the death knell for EDM has been ringing louder and louder in recent months."Vegas turns up nose at superstar...
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That Kanye West/Beethoven Concert: Bad Idea Or Really Bad Idea?
Last week, the Young Musicians Foundation, a nonprofit organization offering scholarships to thousands of young musicians in the Los Angeles area, announced an eye-catching free concert: “Yeethoven.”...
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Here’s Why Musicians Won’t Stand for Illegal Uploads Anymore
As recently as 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeals of twopeople owing almost a combined $1 million for allegedly downloading and sharing copyrighted music. The cases of Jammie...
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Why Merle Haggard Was a Country Game Changer
Throughout his career—and he kept working right until his death on April 6, 2016, a day that happened to be his 79th birthday—Merle Haggard tied the past to the present, and wound up pointing toward...
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How Bounce Music Brings New Orleans Natives Back Home
At Lil Weezyana Fest, the August 2015 revue that lovingly showcased old-school New Orleans bounce stars ranging from 5th Ward Weebie to first-gen Cash Money signee Ms. Tee, R&B singer-songwriter PJ...
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Are Kesha’s Lawyers Playing to the Public More than the Courts?
If Kesha ultimately loses her case against Dr. Luke, the producer she has accused of drugging, raping, and abusing her, it won't be for the lack of qualified attorneys. Since suing Dr. Luke in October...
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Why Animal Collective's Deakin Took 7 Years to Make His Kickstarter-Funded Album
The point of crowdsourcing seems straightforward: Give someone money, so they can make something cool. But not every Kickstarter or Indiegogo has a tidy ending. The internet is littered with stories of...
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The Ramones Come Home, Via the Queens Museum
The 1979 film Rock N Roll High Schoolis, like America itself, a wild menagerie of fantasy and fact. It's centered around one teenage girl's quest to get the Ramones to play a killer tune that she wrote...
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Remembering My Friend Tony Conrad and His Eternal Music
When I first met the pioneering avant-garde musician Tony Conrad, who passed this weekend, he was dressed entirely in marine green. This was almost 20 years ago now, when I was a new graduate student...
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Eating Our Way Through Frankel’s, the New Jewish Deli from Brooklyn's Music...
“Musicians don’t work very much,” Zach Frankel says with a smile. His brother Alex, of the DFA duo Holy Ghost!, laughs. The brothers have just opened Frankel’s Delicatessen & Appetizing in...
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Meet Pam the Funkstress, Prince’s New DJ
Pam the Funkstress is so true to her name, even Prince wants to party with her. For the past month, the Bay Area DJ has been hitting the road with the Purple One on his lavishPiano and a Microphone...
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PJ Harvey’s Onstage Evolution in 7 Videos
Invisible Hits is a column in which Tyler Wilcox scours the internet for the best (and strangest) bootlegs, rarities, outtakes, and live clips."I feel I am filled with complete opposites," Polly Jean...
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