Phoenix Collaborated With Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter for New Album, “Alpha Zulu” – EDM.com

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Iconic indie pop band Phoenix have revealed they collaborated with Daft Punk‘s Thomas Bangalter for their new album. Speaking with Stereogum for the outlet’s “We’ve Got A File On You” interview series, Phoenix, who are celebrating […]

The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan review – an enlightening listen-along | Music books

The Clash (l-r: Mick Jones, Joe Strummer, Paul Simonon) performing in 1981.

In 1993, Bob Dylan released World Gone Wrong, an album of cover versions of what might be called pre-modern songs by some of the early blues and folk performers that he revered. Dylan’s sleeve notes […]

Jello Biafra Honors Late Dead Kennedys Drummer D.H. Peligro

Jello Biafra Honors Late Dead Kennedys Drummer D.H. Peligro

Former Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra has penned a lengthy tribute to the late drummer D.H. Peligro, who tragically passed away last week after suffering head trauma from an accidental fall. Biafra and Peligro were […]

Tim Burton’s advice to Nightmare Before Christmas director: stay weird

Writer-producer Tim Burton and director Henry Selick in a file photo, working together on the set of 1993’s The Nightmare Before Christmas

Henry Selick’s strange career started with a massive, enduring hit that’s largely been credited to writer and producer Tim Burton. Selick directed the 1993 stop-motion musical The Nightmare Before Christmas, but Burton was already a […]

Is cumbia the new punk? How Son Rompe Pera gets crowds moshing to marimbas

A group of five punk men pose by a fence with barbed wire

Kacho, Kilos and Mongo Gama grew up performing in cemeteries. Along with their father, José (a.k.a. Batuco), the brothers would play next to the mariachi and Norteño groups performing for families visiting their relatives during […]