• Stream Primavera Sound Festival 2014 Sets: St. Vincent, Arcade Fire, Disclosure, And More

    Spain’s Primavera Sound festival kicked off in Barcelona today. Our writer Jack is on the scene ready to report back to us about the best things he saw but because of that whole time-change thing, you might as well see the live streams for yourself here while you wait. The Thursday lineup includes sets by Warpaint, Real Estate, St. Vincent, Arcade Fire, Disclosure and Holy Ghost as well as Neutral Milk Hotel and Queens of The Stone Age (not streaming).

  • 6 Albums Recorded Without the Entire Band: The Beach Boys, Smashing Pumpkins

    When you see an album by a solo artist like Michael Jackson or Tom Waits, nobody actually expects them to be the only musician performing on the album (unless they’re Prince). The same thing goes for some albums by bands. Just because the name of the band is on the front of the album, it doesn’t mean the entire band actually performed on the album. Here are six albums recorded without the entire band.

  • 6 Songs with studio banter: The Beatles, Radiohead, and more

    There are probably thousands of hours of recording studio banter between musicians that have been thrown away by engineers, but sometimes, artists choose to leave these little bits of conversation in the album's finished version. Here are six songs that have studio banter in them.

  • 6 Bands That Began as Solo Projects: Grizzly Bear, Foo Fighters, and more

    Unless they're singing folk songs like Bob Dylan, solo artists are rarely "solo" in the most literal sense of the word, typically employing a backing band to play along with them on record and during concerts. However, just as some artists leave their bands in pursuit of a solo career, some solo artists feel more comfortable playing music within a band environment. Here are six great bands that began as solo projects for one of the members.

  • 6 Classic Albums That Deserve Documentaries: Weezer, the Strokes and more

    Some of my favorite types of films to watch are music documentaries, and with the premiere of Time is Illmatic, a film about the classic Nas LP Illmatic (in my opinion, the greatest rap album ever made), I started thinking about what other incredible albums deserve to have their stories told. Here are six classic album documentaries I’d like to see.

  • Seven Awesome Artists Who Are Ruined by Their Fans: Bob Marley, Oasis, and more

    We all know at least one person who is so incredibly irritating that you refuse to listen to anything they say. If there's this one band they keep suggesting to you, you simply refuse to look into them, out of fear that you'll actually enjoy them and become irritating, too. Here are seven artists whose fans make me embarrassed to be a fan.

  • 8 Albums that go against the theory of the sophomore slump: Radiohead, Nirvana, Neutral Milk Hotel and more

    The theory of the "sophomore slump" is that an artist has their whole lives to create their first album, but then suffers creatively when they have only a short time to create their second. Andrew W.K., The Stone Roses, Television, Interpol, and Best Coast are all examples of artists who have fallen into this trap, but it's not as widespread as music historians may lead you to believe. There are a huge number of bands whose second albums either made up for the false start of their debuts, or rode their debut's success to even greater artistic heights.
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