Flavorwire’s 15 Most Anticipated Albums of 2014
With year-end listomania pretty much over and done with, it’s time to turn our attention to the year to come — and, specifically, which albums we’re most looking forward to hearing in 2014. So far,...
View ArticleThe 10 Albums You Need to Hear in March
Things in the music industry start to wake up come March, what with SXSW and the close of dreaded Q1. This month’s got no shortage of great indie (Real Estate, The Hold Steady, The War On Drugs) and...
View ArticleThank Rick Rubin for Johnny Cash’s “New” Album, Even Though He Had Nothing to...
Rick Rubin has a lot to do with Johnny Cash’s Out Among the Stars — and he didn’t even produce it. Though the super-producer and country legend have been linked over the past two decades when it comes...
View Article10 Musicians You Never Knew Had Their Own TV Shows
The folk at Dangerous Minds specialize in unearthing fascinating obscurities from the depths of the Internet, but they outdid themselves this week by finding a clip from a pilot for a sitcom Kraftwerk...
View ArticleClassic Album Cover Remixes Created By a Music-Loving Dad, Starring His...
Take heed Lunchbox dads and fathers of cute Internet dogs: classic album cover remixes starring your two adorable sons are the new thing. Dad Lance Underwood recreates famous album covers and casts his...
View ArticleA Nonfiction Tour of America: 50 Books for 50 States
Whether you’re staying at home this summer or traveling around to different parts of America, the easiest way to discover what makes this country tick, in ways both maddening and beautiful, is to read...
View Article25 of Music’s Most Obnoxiously Misogynist Songs
As long as there’s been music, there have been unpleasant lyrical descriptions based on the subject’s gender — songwriters have long been relying on stereotypes and/or on demonizing the opposite sex as...
View ArticleHow Ai Weiwei’s Alcatraz Project Changes the Meaning of Prisons as Public Art...
The New York Times makes it seem like a match made in heaven: “Ai Weiwei was one of the most famous prisoners in recent history. Now he’s taking on one of the most infamous prisons of all time” — that...
View Article10 of the Weirdest Places Bands Have Played
Sometimes, nothing challenges an artist more than playing in an unconventional location, eschewing the stage for a unique environment that can either help or hinder their performance. And sometimes the...
View Article15 Troubled Male Musical Genius Biopics, Ranked
When Sony Pictures Classics decided back in October to move the Hank Williams biopic I Saw the Light out of the crowded Oscar-hopeful season and into a relatively quiet March berth, they probably...
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