Keith Urban has spent the past several years cementing his role as one of country music’s most genre-flexible veterans, teaming up with everyone from Pitbull to Kanye producer Jeff Bhasker on his 2016 smash Ripcord. Urban searches for crossover magic once again on Graffiti U, collaborating with a battalion of …
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In a rare 1975 interview, Neil Youngspoke at length to Rolling Stone‘s Cameron Croweabout the headspace informing his Tonight’s the Night LP. Feeling guitarist Danny Whitten was too fucked-up to play a session, Young had banished him from the studio. “That night the coroner called me from L.A. and told …
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Like its predecessor from earlier this year, volume two of Chris Stapleton‘s From A Room is a brew of country, folk, blues and Southern rock and soul, recorded at Nashville’s vintage RCA Studio A with producer Dave Cobb. The band’s the same but leaner, stripped to guitars, bass, drums and …
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“Two music nerds obsessing … sending each other mp3s” sings Björk euphorically over harp arpeggios, while multi-tracked Björks chirp cherubically in the background. The track, a very Björkian reverie titled “Blissing Me,” sets the tone for a record that’s in some ways a polar opposite to 2015’s incandescently brooding Vulnicura. …
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On the growing list of farewell albums by dying rockers, Leon Russell‘s contribution – recorded months before his November 2016 passing – may be the most unflinching yet. “Sounds like a funeral for some person here/And I might be the one,” he bemoans; elsewhere he dwells on loneliness and lost …
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