Fiona Apple has released a new song, albeit a very brief one, “Horns Of A Bull” which serves as the theme song of the new Anya Taylor Joy show, Lucky. I think this is similar to what R.E.M.’s erstwhile singer Michael Stipe (working with uber-producer Andrew Watt) did earlier this year with “I Played The Fool”…
Josh Homme’s band Queens Of The Stone Age have returned with a new song, “Easy Street,” that features Nikki Lane of outlaw country fame on vocals. I’m sort of used to first singles from these guys that rock me out of my chair like “The Way You Used To Do,” so I was gobsmacked to…
Perhaps lost in the hubbub of the Stones’ new release Foreign Tongues last Friday, guitar god Jack White released his 7th studio album Frozen Charlotte. I slipped out of the B&V labs in between spins of the new Stones this weekend and dashed down to the local indy record store to pick up the midnight blue…
The venerable Rolling Stones have returned a mere three years after Hackney Diamonds with their new album Foreign Tongues and it is a stupendous, joyous rock n roll record. These guys are rocking with an energy unmatched by men half their age. It sounds like they’re reinvigorated and have rediscovered the joy of making new music. It’s hard…
As I sit around in anxious pain, watching the clock in anticipation of the release of both the Stones’ (Foreign Tongues) and Jack White’s (Frozen Charlotte) new albums, I find myself cycling through my playlists. Rock music soothes the savage beast, as the saying goes. It’s either that or whiskey and this is healthier. As…
Editor’s Note: I inadvertently hit “publish” yesterday while I was trying to sketch out my initial thoughts about the framework/context of my review on U2’s new song. My apologies for the boneheaded publish/delete. If you got the two paragraph email version of those early sketched out ideas, sorry! Consider it a teaser! After releasing two…
As I sit inside my house, bemoaning our recent heat wave, loathe to go outside in the sweltering air – it feels like a blast furnace out there – I’ve been pondering the great rock n roll questions. In my defense, I’m in that excruciating waiting period between the release of the Stones’ second single,…
As if we weren’t excited enough about the upcoming new Stones album – and this one only 3 years after the superb Hackney Diamonds, vs the 18 years between new LPs prior – the band has released a new double-sided single. The new tracks are “Jealous Lover” and Divine Intervention.” The build up to the…
Every spring (during March to be exact) we look back 40 years to put together a playlist of rock songs for whatever given year that might be. This year, obviously, we looked back to 1986. As an aside, every January we do a 50-year playlist in the same manner, this year 1976. When compiling the…
As the World Cup takes over my city this month, I find myself hunkering down here in the B&V labs. It’s not that I don’t like large crowds of people, but as they say in Barfly, “I just sort of feel better when they’re not around.” Although admittedly, I’m hearing the folks from Scotland drank all the…