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With each album, Jake Xerxes Fussell reaches deeper into the dustheap of history, snatching up the tattered remains of long-lost folk tunes and knitting them into lucid arrangements that fully transfigure their source material. Born in Columbus, Georgia and based in Durham, North Carolina, the musician can pick up the most hopelessly frayed thread of a song and follow it to another world. A couplet or two from a centuries-old ballad might form the backbone of a wholly modern arrangement, fleshed out by his plaintive baritone and virtuosic fingerpicking; he can also pull off more faithful renditions of sea shanties…
Ever since he was a kid coming up in a Birmingham council flat, Justin K. Broadrick has shielded himself with heavy music. As a teenager, he amassed records by bands like Discharge, the Stranglers, and Cockney Rejects, parlaying his punk credentials into camaraderie with the tough kids at school. By the time Broadrick formed his pioneering industrial metal project Godflesh in the late 1980s, he was in search of something far more subversive. “I wanted this repulsive sound,” Broadrick said in a recent (and rare) interview. “I wanted it to be an expression of pain… Filthy, dirty, mechanized but organic…
There’s a thread of desperation here that’s in tension with B0YG1RL’s no-holds-barred thrillseeking. “Hope you touch me, I hope you feel so entitled,” Vinette pleads over the prickly synthplay of “Show Me,” so wrapped up in desire that he sounds exasperated. “Reality” and “Angel” are the album’s dramatic bookends, playing with synths loud enough to knock Anthony Gonzalez upside the head. “I saw an angel/And it hurt,” Vinette cries on the latter, and I believe him. With help from producers like prblm, Trauma, amne, and DJ Travella, B0YG1RL feels like the work of two twentysomethings soundtracking their glitzy new lives…
Anna Atkins, the 19th century botanist and photographer whose Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions is widely regarded as the first photographic book, made her images by placing algae directly onto paper coated with a light-sensitive solution. Where the plant blocked the ultraviolet light, the paper remained white. Everywhere else, it turned the deep Prussian blue that gives the process its name. At the center of each image, the algae’s fronds produced their own negative.Emily A. Sprague first encountered cyanotypes while shooting film photography in her bathtub around 2018, when she was experimenting with leaking light into film and altering…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. One of the first pieces I bought when I moved to California was a pair of sweatpants from Aviator Nation, the Venice Beach-based clothing brand known for its retro-inspired sweats and cozy, colorful apparel. I lived in those sweatpants whenever I was home in my loft just down the street from Aviator Nation’s flagship store on trendy Abbot Kinney Blvd., and they soon became my go-to pants for picking up a coffee or running errands in the neighborhood…
Elvis Costello made his instant-classic debut, 1977’s My Aim Is True, in just over 24 hours, while he still had a day job as a computer operator. But as Costello discusses in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, the music on the album only hinted at what he was up to in his earliest years as an artist — all of which is finally revealed on his just-released new box set, the five-disc My Aim Is True (49th Anniversary Edition). Alongside a remaster of the album, the set includes The Blue Print, acoustic recordings from 1975 and 1976;…
“We will find a way through this together,” singer says as special guest for latest Loop Tour concert After performing a gig without openers, Ed Sheeran brought on Isaac Slade, former singer of the Fray, to serve as his opening act Saturday as the Loop Tour resumed in Atlanta. Following Macklemore’s exit — which was followed by fellow supporting acts Finneas, Aaron Rowe and Lukas Graham — Sheeran played sans opener September 19 in Philadelphia, his first show since Macklemore was forced off the tour. Sheeran’s Massachusetts concerts last week were canceled due to the nor’easter, giving the singer extra…
“Y’all ready, motherfuckers?!” Patterson Hood flashes an exuberant, devilish smile to likely the largest hometown crowd of his career as he trades an acoustic guitar for his horned Gibson SG, an instrument much better suited to the menacing riff he’s about to play. The final chords of opener “The Deeper In” have barely receded before the Drive-By Truckers erupt into “Sink Hole,” Hood’s barn-burning screed of a man pushed to extremes to save his family farm from an unscrupulous banker. Inspired by the 2001 Ray McKinnon short The Accountant and the loss of the farm where he grew up in…
Forget Sin City’s “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign. This past weekend, visitors should have been greeted with one that said, “Welcome to Planet Metallica.” Everywhere on the strip you’d see folks wearing black Metallica T-shirts — in casinos, on pool decks, even in the Venetian hotel’s gondolas. Tickets for the band’s Life Burns Faster residency at the city’s ginormous Sphere sold out quickly, so folks who managed to score tickets wanted to show off. The band themselves called the Vegas residency a “takeover,” sort of a lifestyle-branded convention including special bars for fans, a giant pop-up store, and even…
Stars gather at Maryland’s Merriweather Post Pavilion for “a celebration of peace, love, justice, music and community action”
