Rock
10 Riot Grrrl Albums Every Music Fan Should Own
Editor’s Note: Crate Digging is a recurring feature in which we take a deep dive into a genre and turn up several albums all music fans should know about. This time, we celebrate Women’s History Month with a deep dig into the riot grrrl genre. Emerging from the deep forests of The Pacific Northwest, riot grrrl was a rasping rallying cry at a time when gender norms weighed heavily on the mosh pits and politics imposed itself dangerously on ovaries and queerness. With punk legends like Patti Smith and The Slits preceding them, the emerging DIY feminist punk movement of the ’90s brought with it grievances of the third wavers. Faced with no space in the existing punk-rock scene, attention was turned to tackling sexism and carving out a new underground alternative. A movement of rioting gi...
Rock Rules Top 3 on Billboard’s Album Sales Chart
Kings of Leon’s latest release, When You See Yourself, debuts at No. 2 with 22,000 sold — scoring the band its fifth top 10 as well. A Day to Remember logs its second top 10, as its new studio effort You’re Welcome bows at No. 3 with 16,000 sold. The last time Nos. 1-3 on Top Album Sales were all rock albums was on the July 11, 2020-dated chart. That week, Haim’s Women in Music, Pt. III debuted at No. 1, Khruangbin’s Mordechai started at No. 2 and Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways fell 1-3 in its second week. (Rock albums are defined as those that have charted on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart.) Back on the new Top Album Sales chart, Billie Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? rises 11-4 with 6,100 sold (up 3%), Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album bounces 10-5 ...
Grateful Dead Are Keeping Fans Comfy With New Sock Collection
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Livestreams & Virtual Concerts to Watch: Week of March 15
For more virtual shows and livestreams to tune into this week, check out the roundup below. We’ll update this list as more events are announced. March 16-20: SXSW is taking place virtually this year, and will feature its film festival and music showcases online. Demi Lovato’s documentary Dancing With the Devil — a harrowing look at the singer’s near-fatal overdose — is among the films opening the event. An online pass is $399. March 17: U2 is marking St. Patrick’s Day by streaming their 2001 September concert at Ireland’s Slane Castle for the first time. The show is the first of the band’s four-show streaming series titled “U2: The Virtual Road.” Dermot Kennedy opens the livestream with a new set filmed outside of Los Angeles...
Ben Howard on Weaving Dark Humor Into His Art
Kyle Meredith With… Ben Howard Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public | RSS Ben Howard catches up with Kyle Meredith to tell us about Collections From the Whiteout. The new album finds him teaming up with The National’s Aaron Dessner and getting more experimental. To that end, Howard discusses writing about real-life characters such as Donald Crowhurst and Richard Russell, weaving dark humor into his art, and being influenced by the cities he tours through. Kyle Meredith With… is an interview series in which WFPK’s Kyle Meredith speaks to a wide breadth of musicians. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, Meredith digs deep into the artist’s work to find out how the music is made and where ...
Mumford & Sons’ Banjoist ‘Taking Time Away From the Band’ After Controversial Post
The controversy started when Marshall, in a now-deleted tweet, congratulated Ngo on the publication of his book Unmasked, which promises to take the reader “inside ANTIFA’s radical plan to destroy democracy.” “Finally had the time to read your important book. You’re a brave man,” Marshall tweeted, before deleting the message following a backlash and intense mockery of the band. Ngo, a conservative journalist who rose to prominence filming left-wing protests in Portland, has become notorious for his associations with the neo-fascist white nationalist groups the Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer. The Ngo incident is not the first time Marshall, who also goes by the aliases Country Winston and WN5TN, and Mumford & Sons have courted controversy for associating with noto...
Courtney Barnett Launches Online Archive For Concerts, Rare Recordings & More
The project was initially visualized as a nod to the online archives of Neil Young and The Grateful Dead, a portal to experience Barnett’s gigs at a time when touring was called off. But as the pandemic dragged on, the initiative developed into much more. Barnett spread her wings with her debut 2015 album LP Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, which cracked the Top 20 on both sides of the Atlantic, won the Australian Music Prize and Triple J’s prestigious J award for album of the year, and snagged a slew of APRA, ARIA and AIR Awards. The indie star was also nominated for the best new artist at the Grammy Awards, losing out to Meghan Trainor. A collaborative album with Kurt Vile, 2017s Lotta Sea Lice, was a critical and commercial success. Barnett’s solo sophomore alb...
Imagine Dragons Celebrate Over a Decade as a Band & Tease What’s to Come
The band’s official Twitter account shared four supernatural teaser videos with hints of their upcoming music. According to the account’s bio, Imagine Dragons will release “Follow You” and “Cutthroat” on Friday. This marks their first release since 2018’s Origins, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and marked their fourth No. 1 album on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums and Alternative Albums charts. Over their 13-year tenure, Imagine Dragons has won a Grammy Award for best rock performance for “Radioactive” in 2014, three American Music Awards and nine Billboard Music Awards. Spotify named the act as the most-streamed musical group in 2018. In the week leading up to the 2015 Grammy Awards, Reynolds...
Lake Street Dive on the Challenge of Writing Songs With Important Messages
Kyle Meredith With… Lake Street Dive Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public | RSS Lake Street Dive frontwoman Rachael Price talks with Kyle Meredith about the band’s new album, Obviously. Price discusses working with producer Mike Elizando due to his work with huge hip-hop artists, writing in pairs for the first time, and digging into her teenage diaries for inspiration. The soul-pop vocalist also takes us through the heavier topics on the album, how the songs change depending on what’s happening in the world, and the challenge of putting an important message in a song. Kyle Meredith With… is an interview series in which WFPK’s Kyle Meredith speaks to a wide breadth of musicians. Every Mo...
Adam Levine Says There Are No Bands Anymore & Hayley Williams Has Questions
One of the people who took issue with his statement was Hayley Williams, who has fronted the band Paramore since their first album in 2005 — not too long after Maroon 5’s breakthrough. “adam levine thinks paramore broke up :(,” Williams tweeted. To be fair, some fans thought the same, given that Williams has released two solo albums in the last two years, including last month’s Flowers for Vases/Descansos. But she reassured worried fans on New Year’s Day, replying to a fan’s message of “Omg I thought paramore was breaking up,” tweeting, “lol y’all been worried about that too long. aint happening.” A band that predates Maroon 5 had something to say about Levine’s comment too, with Garbage tweeting in response:&nbs...
Roc Nation Wins $12M Insurance Claim Over Maroon 5 Manager’s Death
Feldstein died suddenly from a pulmonary embolism, with the Los Angeles Medical Examiner declaring his cause of death as natural. But HCC denied paying out Roc Nation’s claim and Roc Nation responded by suing in U.S. District Court Southern District of New York on Jan. 18, 2019, for wrongfully denying insurance coverage. HCC argued in court papers that Roc Nation was precluded from any recovery because the company failed to cooperate with HCC’s investigation of the claim — a contention that Roc Nation denied. HCC also argued that the policy language required the insurance payment be reduced by all future profits that could have been traceable to Feldstein’s services. To this, Roc Nation’s legal team argued that the policy’s plain language outlines that it was entitled to recoup...
Papa Roach and Jeris Johnson on Creating Shorter Songs for TikTok
Kyle Meredith With… Papa Roach and Jeris Johnson Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public | RSS Papa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix and up-and-coming rocker Jeris Johnson sit down with Kyle Meredith to talk about their new releases and “Last Resort” collaboration. The two discuss what the 2000 hit has come to mean with regards to mental health, with Shaddix diving back in time to talk about Infest’s 20th anniversary, while Jeris is dropping his first EP. Jacoby also talks about alcohol abuse and getting clean and how Jeris sees that while navigating new fame. Johnson, who broke out within TikTok, also takes us into the songs that make up My Sword, why turn-of-the-millenium rock is meaningful to h...
