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Rock and roll icon Little Richard, who was widely credited with helping pioneer not just the musical fashion itself yet the larger-than-life personas for which it became synonymous, has died at 87, Rolling Stone reports. No cause of death was given, though Richard's bass player told TMZ the musician had apparently been sick for the past two months. Place on Earth Richard Wayne Pennim..
Read MoreBy Danielle Chelosky 2005 was much less of per year and more of a weird dream. For once, emo had struck the radio waves, unlike the genre’s previous eruptions in the 1980s and ‘90s. Panic! At the Disco — a fizzy young sort that played with gender image — sang a peculiar, noisy anthem about infidelity deemed catchy enough for Z100 rotation. My Chemical Romance’s legions of d..
Read MoreBy Grant Sharples Paramore, despite no longer making pop-punk music, have become one of the quintessential bands in the genre. Their early catchy, cathartic choruses on songs like “crushcrushcrush” and “That’s What You Get” are representative of the complete Warped-Tour era of the 2000s. Yet nevertheless this heavily male-dominated, often misogynistic scene consisted of ple..
Read MoreBBC Radio 1 has created a massive lineup of artists to mask the Foo Fighters's classic 2003 tune, "Times Like These," for its new fundraising special, The Big Night In. This epic, multi-household efficiency features Dua Lipa, Luke Hemmings of 5 Seconds of Summer, Hailee Steinfeld, Yungblud, and thus several more. What makes this legendary show even more breathtaking is the fact t..
Read MoreOn Maya Hawke’s new song “Coverage,” out today (April 22), she blows through like a gentle morning breeze, breathing into your ear a diary entry of a pending existential crisis. “If I were really here / Looking at you beamin’ / If I were really alive / Could I make it through day-to-day dreamin’?” She meditates, her ideology far from the nonchalance of Robin Buckley, th..
Read MoreAdam Schlesinger's music belonged on television. One of the Fountains of Wayne songwriter's most visible composition was 2003's "Stacy's Mom," thanks to its Rachel Hunter-in-a-bikini-led video that dominated MTV. The clip preceded a slew of other Schlesinger-penned pop-rock hits anchored by glossy visual treatments; think The Click Five's "Just the Girl," Bowling for Soup's "High Scho..
Read MoreAdam Schlesinger, who wrote and co-wrote dozens of hook-emblazoned pop-rock songs in a career that spanned a quarter-century, has died of complications related to the novel coronavirus, outlets are reporting. He was 52. Schlesinger died Wednesday (April 1) following reports from earlier in the week that he'd been hospitalized and placed on a ventilator immediately after testing posit..
Read MoreMargaret Glaspy has evolved. In the nearly four years since her debut album, Emotions and Math, dropped, the California-raised singer-songwriter has enrolled at Harvard University by way of the distance learning, pushed her guitar-based sound into more rhythmic and electronic dimensions, and taken a particular interest in writing songs about life’s gray areas. Her forthcoming second..
Read MoreBy Bob Marshall In just a couple of short months, Columbus, Ohio-based musical group Snarls have experienced a sudden rise from college-town curiosity to one of the most talked-about new bands in the nation. So whenever 20-year-old singer/guitarist Chlo White and 22-year-old guitarist Mick Martinez attempt to explain the quantity of attention their band’s brand of self-proclaimed ..
Read MoreIn an age whenever shorter songs mean more streams (and thus more revenue), Sophie Allison unfurled "Yellow is the Color of Her Eyes" over seven minutes. The 22-year-old, who sings candidly about depression, grief, and illness over lustrous indie guitar rock, put out the song in November under the moniker Soccer Mommy, as she's been doing since her earliest lo-fi releases in 2015. Her..
Read MoreIn the early 20th century and before, a young “printer’s devil” would help set type and tidy the floors in print shops. He learned his trade as all apprentices do, by watching cautiously and, eventually, by doing. Julia Steiner, who leads Midwestern musical group Ratboys, noticed herself with a unique task not long ago: ordering looking through decades of memories and artifacts ..
Read MoreLili Trifilio felt nervous. Each year ago, the DePaul University senior was bracing for graduation in a number of months, gripped by the looming post-collegiate necessitates that materialize once the final semester kicks off — work, cash, that wide-open void of the future. What gave the journalism major a slight edge, though, was her preferred extracurricular activity, fronting the ..
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