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Music’s Greatest Lessons About Growing Up and How to Live Your Life
It’s graduation week, and we guess that means at least some of you are preparing to leave college behind for good. If you’ll allow us to get a little misty-eyed for a minute, we remember when we were...
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Hear Beck and Jack White’s “I Just Started Hating Some People Today”
Looking for a new misanthropic anthem? Of course you are! Well, here is none other than Beck to oblige you with the A-side to his new single, “I Just Started Hating Some People Today.” The delightfully...
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Photo Highlights from NYC’s Governors Ball Festival
NYC has struggled for years to develop a music festival it can call its own. And while it may not rival mega-fests like Coachella or Lollapalooza, Governors Ball came back kicking for its second year...
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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. Duly noted: If you turn off Bruce Springsteen’s mic during a big show in London — particularly if it’s just as Sir Paul McCartney is about to join him on stage for a duet — he will, quite...
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Photo Hightlights from the 2012 Outside Lands Festival
Now in its fifth year, San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival took over Golden Gate Park this past weekend, with a diverse lineup that included everyone from long-established legends...
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Hear 3 New Beck Songs from the Video Game ‘Sound Shapes’
Beck has a new album coming out, but there’s a pretty good chance you’ll never get to hear it. That’s because, as you might have heard, he’s releasing Song Reader solely as sheet music, via that great...
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10 Rock Albums That Were Impossible to Follow Up
It’s a familiar experience. There’s that one mind-blowingly great album you just can’t get enough of, an album of epic proportion. Then one day you learn that this beloved artist will be releasing a...
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10 Great Rock Albums Produced by Electronic Musicians
It’s nice to be pleasantly surprised once in a while, and Free Reign, the new album by UK band Clinic, has been on high rotation here at Flavorpill of late. We’ve always rather liked Clinic’s work, but...
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14 Bands Major Labels Thought Would Be the Next Nirvana
When Nirvana moved from Sub Pop to DGC Records in 1990, the major label hoped they could achieve the sort of success attained by the other former indie band that helped pave the way for the Seattle...
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Great Albums With Embarrassingly Bad Cover Art [NSFW]
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Mosquito is officially on the shelves, and our first impressions of the record haven’t changed much: we rather like it. The cover art, though… well, that’s an entirely different...
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10 Amazing, Shocking Unscripted Moments From ’90s MTV
Though the channel debuted in the early ’80s, MTV really found its groove in the ’90s when it still balanced music coverage with its burgeoning original reality, comedy, and animated programming....
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20 of the Flat-Out Funniest Songs in Rock ‘n’ Roll
In an attempt to save you (not to mention ourselves) from the general Monday-morning awfulness that tends to follow a lovely spring weekend, Flavorwire has compiled a playlist of indie/rock/generally...
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The 10 Best New Songs We Heard This Week: Mazzy Star, J Mascis
It’s Friday, which means that it’s time to look back at the best new music we’ve heard over the last few days. This week saw the long-overdue return of Mazzy Star — hurrah! — along with a cracking...
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Staff Picks: Flavorwire’s Favorite Cultural Things This Week
Need a great book to read, album to listen to, or TV show to get hooked on? The Flavorwire team is here to help: in this weekly feature, our editorial staffers each recommend the cultural object or...
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The 10 Best New Songs We Heard This Week: Beck, U.S. Girls
It’s Friday, which means that it’s nearly the weekend, and also that it’s time to look back at the best new music we’ve heard over the last few days. This week there’s Beck doing his best Dirty...
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Vampire Weekend, Beck, Fiona Apple, and More Will Cover Their Favorite Love...
This Valentine’s Day, Starbucks will release a compilation of covers by artists like Beck, Vampire Weekend, Sharon Jones, Jim James, Phosphorescent, and Fiona Apple, joined by her sister Maude...
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Flavorwire’s 15 Most Anticipated Albums of 2014
With year-end listomania pretty much over and done with, it’s time to turn our attention to the year to come — and, specifically, which albums we’re most looking forward to hearing in 2014. So far,...
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Coachella Lineup Announced
Coachella has posted its 2014 lineup! The concert will take place Fri-Sun April 11-13, then again with the same lineup Fri-Sun April 18-20, at its usual spot in the Joad family’s nightmare-scape....
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‘Morning Phase’: Why Sad Beck Is the Best Beck
I’ll be honest: I’ve never been a particularly big fan of Beck, for the simple reason that for all his undeniable talent, it’s been hard to find any sort of heart in his music. He’s always come across...
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The Best and Worst of Last Night’s ‘SNL’ with Jim Parsons
SNL had a month-long vacation and returns with The Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons and musical guest Beck (in full creepy preacher regalia). Parsons seems like an odd choice for hosting duties, but...
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