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Thom Yorke of Radiohead performed a solo acoustic guitar version of the band's classic song "True Love Waits" in Rio De Janeiro this week. Before it appeared as the unearthly piano-led closer of 2016's A Moon Shaped Pool, the song was well known to fans as an acoustic ballad that would appear in concert sets from time to time, and was previously immortalized on the 2001 live EP I Might Be Wrong. According...
Today, Avicii’s “Levels” stands as one of the triumphs of the early EDM era, a single riff combined with an Etta James sample and built upwards into the clouds. The song doesn’t sound produced so much as discovered, a ball of energy that could neither be created nor destroyed. Its success announced not just the arrival of a new star, but the ascent of a new genre: EDM, a post-recession sound...
Late last week, a persistent subject of gossip in the emo music community hit breakout velocity. The subject was a Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization called Punk Talks, which aims to provide mental health education and services to DIY musicians and industry workers, and the nonprofit’s mishandling of sensitive issues. The conversation began with a series of since-deleted tweets from the organization’s...
