I have such reverence for [pop]. A lot of musicians think they can do pop, and the ones who don’t succeed are the ones who don’t have the reverence—who think it’s just a dumb version of other music. You need to be awe-struck. | | | | Tove Lo at the O2 Ritz in Manchester, England, March 15, 2017.
(Andrew Benge/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | | | “I have such reverence for [pop]. A lot of musicians think they can do pop, and the ones who don’t succeed are the ones who don’t have the reverence—who think it’s just a dumb version of other music. You need to be awe-struck.”
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| | rantnrave:// In praise of the totally-not-cool kids: ED SHEERAN is "relatable" and an "everyman for everyone" and he's what dance music is missing, JOSH BAINES argues in an essay for THUMP. Baines says the current dance scene is ruled by a couple different types of untouchable superstars ("clean eating yoga buffs" and "line-racking banter boys") and is badly in need of one that fans can actually touch... New ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAMERS PEARL JAM "Might Not Be Cool, But That Doesn't Mean They Aren't Great," according to the headline of CRAIG JENKINS' appreciation in VULTURE, in which the writer articulates an argument that's been made a thousand or two times before but which, like Pearl Jam itself, continues to be worth hearing, at least once in a while... (But speaking of PEARL JAM).. Sweet new live sets from the KEXP studio: SINKANE and WEYES BLOOD... Much like his contemporaries MICK FLEETWOOD and JOHN MCVIE, J. GEILS was a devoted bluesman who was neither frontman nor songwriter for the band that bore his name, but who was the musical glue and spiritual engine behind everything the band did. (He was also the least outwardly cool member of his own group.) If you're not from BOSTON or DETROIT and/or you're not of a certain age or a certain profession, you might think of the J. GEILS BAND as an early MTV group who had a few catchy hits, a decent video or two and probably broke up around the time MOLLY RINGWALD was becoming a star. You would be correct in your facts but wrong in your history. In another time and place, they were the American ROLLING STONES, raucous practitioners of a feverish blend of rock and roll, blues and rhythm and blues and deliverers of a ferocious live show who didn't care if they were opening, closing, playing a club in WORCESTER or headlining the GARDEN. They built their way slowly and sweatily toward those pop hits, all of them deserved, but their legacy, at least in my hometown, was something else altogether. CHARLES P. PIERCE and my old editor STEVE MORSE remember a Boston rock legend... RIP also JOSEPH RASCOFF, CHARLIE MURPHY and LINDA HOPKINS. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| After a shaky start, Cityfox finally have the green-light to open the Brooklyn Mirage. But it took more than money to get there. | | |
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| Four years after her debut album, the pop prodigy is back with a testimonial to heartbreak and solitude. | | |
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| Make that three of the best. Charles P. Pierce on the late J. Geils and the J. Geils Band. | | |
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| "Let’s not be blockheads," writes LaPolt Law, P.C. owner and creators’ rights advocate Dina LaPolt. "We need to hop on the blockchain." | | |
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| After disappointing albums by Suicide Silence and Emmure, plus declining sales, has deathcore run its course? | | |
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| He has spent three decades making recordings -- but has never captured the wildest sound on Earth. So, armed with his trusty fluffy dog on a stick, Tim Dee heads for the Wash to find the perfect wind. | | |
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| The superstar DJ trained for months to be able to make the hike up to Everest Base Camp to rock a live show. | | |
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| n case you weren’t aware, emo is cool again. New emo bands like The Hotelier have received critical acclaim from hipster music websites, American Football became the great lost band of the last twenty years and Skrillex has rejoined his old emo band From First To Last. | | |
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| Jamie XX, Sampha, Dixon and Solomun will all play at the museum for vintage aviation, expanding Coachella's local concert scene. | | |
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| The Voice of Water: Wake Up The World Tour will bring together musicians from Standing Rock in the hopes of spreading inspiration and healing. | | |
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| The megastars of EDM are untouchable, super-rich elites. We need an everyman. | | |
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| Orchestra Baobab, Spoek Mathambo, Les Amazones d’Afrique, Oumou Sangaré, Janka Nabay and a wealth of music exploding from the motherland. | | |
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| The Red Light founder is back with the e-commerce business he founded and sold to Live Nation. | | |
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| Syd, Matt Martians, Steve Lacy, Christopher Smith, and Patrick Paige II have taken a unique approach to solo stardom in service of group greatness. | | |
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| Sometimes artists like to reward us for paying attention in amazing ways. | | |
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| You should have been there. Not because I want your money, not because I want to build FOMO, but because it was so educational and so much fun! | | |
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| Lately, I can't help wondering if perhaps the cassette culture that's staked a sliver of consumer territory over the past decade doesn't share some similarities with its lowly cartridge cousin and its fringe following during the early to mid '90s. | | |
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| Yesterday, we told you about “tax scam records,” and the incredible story of Richard Goldman, the exceptional singer-songwriter who made the shocking discovery that two versions of an album-largely made up of his tunes-had been released without his knowledge. But that’s not the end of this strange tale. | | |
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| Often maligned by their peers, Pearl Jam is actually still a great band. | | |
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| Damon Albarn resurrects Gorillaz with the dystopian party of "Humanz." | | |
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