Rock
All Time Low Earns First Radio Chart No. 1 With ‘Monsters’
The band crowns Alternative Airplay with its Blackbear-assisted hit. In its first appearance on Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chart, All Time Low is a winner, as “Monsters,” featuring Blackbear, rises to No. 1 on the Sept. 19-dated ranking. While All Time Low’s discography dates to its 2005 debut album The Party Scene, “Monsters” became the first song from the pop-punkers to reach Alternative Airplay when it debuted in late May. Now the song marks All Time Low’s first radio chart No. 1. The act previously hit a No. 13 best on the Adult Pop Songs airplay chart with “Good Times” in 2017. Blackbear also scores his first airplay No. 1 after reaching a No. 2 high on Pop Songs with “Hot Girl Bummer” in March. All Time Low i...
My Morning Jacket Nabs First Adult Alternative Songs No. 1 With ‘Feel You’
The rockers rule after first charting in 2008. My Morning Jacket reaches No. 1 on a Billboard songs chart for the first time, with “Feel You” crowning the Adult Alternative Songs airplay list dated Sept. 19. The song surpasses the Kentucky band’s previous best peak, as “I’m Amazed” hit No. 5 on Adult Alternative Songs in 2008. That also marked the act’s first appearance on a Billboard radio chart. The act is the fifth to land a first Adult Alternative Songs No. 1 in 2020. Two bands completed a similarly lengthy career trajectory: The Strokes (“Bad Decisions”) and Tame Impala (“Lost in Yesterday”) also landed multiple successful albums prior to reigning for the first time. Concurrently, “Feel You” jumps into the t...
Here Are All the Livestreams & Virtual Concerts to Watch During the Coronavirus Crisis: Week of Sept. 14
Summer is going out with a major bang! The last full week of the warm-weather season features some seriously rockin’ livestream shows, including one by The Killers, and a weekend of music from the long-running industrial music festival Cold Waves. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, artists around the world have been canceling shows to help prevent spreading COVID-19, which has led to the deaths of more than 193,000 people just in the United States to date. Instead, they’ve been doing livestream concerts from home and empty venues, while music festivals have done the same, with some also featuring rare footage of past shows. Below is a list of the livestream music events happening the week of Sept. 14 that you can enjoy from the safety of your own home. We’ll add...
10 Almost Famous Quotes You Probably Say All the Time
When Cameron Crowe put us on the tour bus with William Miller, Penny Lane, and Stillwater 20 years ago, he did more than just make us a fly on the wall for the circus, pump us full of great music, and make us believe that we’re cool. After we came back to the real world after 122 minutes of thinkpieces, Band Aids, and golden gods, we had a new language to describe our own realities — and love of music. So, here we are, two decades later, long after Doris has been retired; drunk on the booze of friendship; dark and mysterious as ever; totally, utterly uncool; and still tossing about the following lines as if we first saw Almost Famous just yesterday. Don’t “fecking” judge us. Anyway, it’s all happening. “One day … you’ll be cool.” <img data-attachment-id="1069223" data-permalin...
Ziggy Marley, Mick Jagger, The Who & More Pay Tribute to Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert
Tributes are pouring in after the passing of Jamaican reggae legend Frederick “Toots” Hibbert. Music stars like Ziggy Marley, Mick Jagger, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Massive Attack and many others took to social media to pay tribute to the Toots & the Maytals frontman, who died Friday (Sept. 11) at the age of 77. “So sad to hear of Toots Hibbert’s passing. When I first heard Pressure Drop that was a big moment – he had such a powerful voice and on stage he always gave the audience his total energy. A sad loss to the music world,” Jagger tweeted. Hibbert’s death was announced on his eponymous band’s social media accounts, saying that the singer/songwriter “passed away peacefully tonight, surrounded by by friends and family at the University H...
John Fogerty Speaks Out After Trump Plays ‘Fortunate Son’ at Rally: ‘I Find it Confusing’
John Fogerty says he’s confused over why President Donald Trump would want to use Creedence Clearwater Revival‘s classic song “Fortunate Son” during his campaign rallies. In a video posted to Facebook on Friday (Sept. 11), the 75-year-old musician explained that he wrote “Fortunate Son” in 1969 at the height of the Vietnam War to express his frustration about wealthy people using their power and influence to avoid being drafted. “It’s a song I could’ve written now, so I find it confusing, I would say, that the president has chosen to use my song for his political rallies, when in fact it seems like he is probably the ‘Fortunate Son,'” said Fogerty, who was drafted and served in the military. The singer/songwriter’s vid...
Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert, Early Ska and Reggae Legend, Dies at 77
Frederick Hibbert, better known by his “Toots” alias as leader of the legendary ska outfit The Maytalls, died on Friday. (Sept. 11). His death was announced on his eponymous band’s social media accounts, saying that the singer/songwriter “passed away peacefully tonight, surrounded by by friends and family at the University Hospital of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaiaca.” No cause was given, but last week, it was reported that Toots was in an intensive care unit as he awaited results of a test for COVID-19. He was 77 years old. Toots was born to Seventh-day Adventist preachers in Jamaica in the early ’40s, and as a teenager, moved to the Trenchtown neighborhood of Kingston, commonly known as the birthplace of reggae music. There, he met Ralphus “...
Beastie Boys’ ’90s Punk Record ‘Aglio E Olio’ Hits Streaming Services: Listen
The Beastie Boys are back, sort of. The Hall of Fame inducted hip-hop crew have finally released Aglio E Olio on streaming services, a quarter century after they cut it. Aglio E Olio represents the Beasties in full-on punk mode. Its eight tracks are raw, high-octane and, at just 11 minutes in total, the EP has more pace than Usain Bolt. Think “Heart Attack Man” from Ill Communication, their classic album from 1994. Recorded the following year, in 1995, the EP was originally released on CD and 12″ vinyl record by the band’s now-defunct label Grand Royal. Amery “AWOL” Smith, drummer with Los Angeles thrash veterans Suicidal Tendencies, guests on the record alongside Ad-Rock, Mike D and the late MCA. Next month sees the release of Beastie Boys Music, a 20-son...
The Flaming Lips Return to Earth on Devastatingly Beautiful American Head: Review
The Lowdown: Looking back now, it feels safe to say that the ’10s represent something of a lost decade in the long, strange journey of The Flaming Lips. After ushering in the new millennium with a pair of unlikely mid-career classics (1999’s The Soft Bulletin and 2002’s Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots) and closing out the ’00s with unexpectedly muscular rock fanfare (2009’s Embryonic), Wayne Coyne and his merrymakers spent most of the next 10 years getting into tabloid feuds, recording scattershot side projects, and cosplaying as Miley Cyrus’ acid-casualty uncles. The Flaming Lips records they did manage felt like dispatches relayed from a derelict space station, about sonic landscapes too grim (2013’s The Terror) or fried (2017’s Oczy Mlody) or daft (2019’s The King’s Mouth) to warrant re...
Marilyn Manson’s ‘We Are Chaos’ Album Is Here: Stream It Now
The year 2020 has been filled with chaos. Today, Marilyn Manson bring his own special brand. The goth-rock icon drops We Are Chaos, his 11th studio album and the followup to 2017’s Heaven Upside Down. Manson’s Chaos is a reflection of these difficult times. “When I listen to We Are Chaos now, it seems like just yesterday or as if the world repeated itself, as it always does, making the title track and the stories seem as if we wrote them today,” Manson said of the new album, which he reportedly completed in April. The rocker finished all 10 tracks without any additional, outside input. “There is most definitely a side A and side B in the traditional sense,” he continues. “But just like an LP, it is a flat circle and it’s up to the listener to put the last piece of the puzzle into the pictu...
Here Are All the Livestreams & Virtual Concerts to Watch During the Coronavirus Crisis: Week of September 8
Labor Day Weekend has come and gone, but the livestream concerts show no signs of slowing down. Most live events and large gatherings remain in hold throughout the country due to the coronavirus crisis, leading artists to continue the trend of livestreaming shows to connect with fans. With music venues still shut down from coast to coast, here’s your guide to the best live-streamed music content right now, for the week of Sept. 8. As additional events are announced for the week, we’ll add them to this list. Check out the list of shows and musical events to stream from the comfort of your home this week below. September 8: Pop singer Shura will have a live chat with fellow musician Austra, with both taking questions from fans, on Twitch at 5:00 p.m. ET. September 11:&n...
‘Julie and the Phantoms’: TV Review
Kenny Ortega’s Netflix tween musical follows a grief-stricken high schooler who joins an all-ghost rock band. I am just old enough for High School Musical to have been a threat to my personal dignity. Kenny Ortega’s kiddie megafranchise, which debuted January 2006, juggernauted into cultural relevance just as I turned 17 — frankly, only three years after Disney Channel ceased being the white noise of my everyday existence. I saw vulgarity in HSM‘s plastic funk and robotic pop, its earnest romance and “follow your dreams” hamminess. You see, I was far too mature and alternative for HSM‘s chintzy charms. I recall eye-rolling aplenty while babysitting my little cousins the summer before freshman year of college, bravely enduring the film’s ubiquitous ...
