Macklemore and Kesha reminisce on their powerful new hip-hop ballad, “Good Old Days.” The track will appear on Macklemore‘s upcoming solo album, Gemini. “Good Old Days” features stripped-down drums, piano and vocal loops. Macklemore vividly recounts everything from his early tours and dreams of stardom, to his homecoming dance regrets …
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Following the death of Steely Dan co-founder Walter Becker on September 3rd, Donald Fagen wrote in his tribute to Becker that “I intend to keep the music we created together alive as long as I can with the Steely Dan band.” Fagen will make good on that promise as Steely …
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LCD Soundsystem, American Dream“James Murphy and his wrecking crew of New York punk-disco marauders don’t waste a moment on the superb American Dream,” Rob Sheffield writes about the first album in seven years from the New York dance commanders. “It’s a relentless, expansive, maddeningly funny set of songs asking how …
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Arcade Fire performed a pair of Everything Now tracks and mocked consumerism during a visit to The Late Show Thursday. The performance was “sponsored” and preceded by an ad from the “Everything Now Corporation,” Arcade Fire‘s parody of an Amazon-like retailer that offers “everything now, the two most beautiful words …
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