12+ hour, 47+ min ago   (455+ words) Cinema Stereo were stuck until a piece of songwriting advice from John Mayer helped Ian Rayha turn one difficult day into “Lean On You,” a swaggering rock song whose lyrics came together in just 10 minutes. “Lean On You” and its…...

15+ hour, 40+ min ago   (462+ words) Spread Eagle have channelled years of touring into ‘The Brutal Divine’, a 10-song blast of hard rock, metal and punk led by the snarling guitar attack of “Flat Earth Vultures.” The band’s fourth studio album is out now, with “Flat…...

18+ hour, 8+ min ago   (460+ words) Lydia May ends “PURGER” by stripping everything away until only her voice remains. The Melbourne-born, London-based singer wrote and produced the closing bedroom harmony choir herself, bringing one of her most personal songs to an appropriately intimate conclusion. “PURGER” is…...

20+ hour, 57+ min ago   (425+ words) Abbie Ozard tackles the exhausting cost of keeping the peace on “Backbone,” a fuzz-drenched indie-pop song about apologizing too much, avoiding confrontation and eventually realizing how much of yourself can disappear in the process. “Backbone” is out now and marks…...

21+ hour ago   (367+ words) Amongst Liars are pushing into a different phase of the band with “Repair Myself,” an explosive alt-hard-rock single that also introduces guitarist Leo Burdett as their new lead vocalist. “Repair Myself” is out now alongside an official video, giving the…...

21+ hour, 54+ min ago   (520+ words) M.I.A. has built her seventh studio album around one number and an enormous idea. ‘M.I.7’ contains seven songs created across seven locations, with its structure inspired by the seven Trumpets of Revelation and a spiritual framework that stretches from biblical judgment…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (547+ words) The Beta Band are together again after more than 20 years, making this a particularly good time to revisit the gloriously strange story of how they got here. Frontman and founding member Steve Mason tells that story in ‘Failure Is Always…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (654+ words) Frank Zappa returned to Hollywood’s TTG Studios in October 1966 with The Mothers of Invention, a television crew, dancers, underground personalities and enough unpredictability to make the room feel closer to a happening than a conventional recording session. Six decades later,…...

5+ day, 18+ min ago   (638+ words) How ‘Whip It’ Turned Devo’s De-Evolution Theory Into New Wave’s Sharpest Concept That Eric Alper Devo began as a theory before it ever became a band, which is a fairly unusual way to build a career in rock and roll....

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (282+ words) The Kinks Celebrate 60 Years Of “Sunny Afternoon” With New Animated Video That Eric Alper The Kinks have given “Sunny Afternoon” a new animated life 60 years after the song first arrived in 1966. Written by Ray Davies, the classic became one of…...