Maxwell Teases New LP With Suave Ballad ‘Lake by the Ocean’

“All I see is just / Everything is lust,” Maxwell croons on “Lake by the Ocean,” his seductive first single from the upcoming LP, blackSUMMERS’night. The album, out July 1st via Columbia Records, is the second installment in a musical trilogy, following 2009’s BLACKsummers’night. 

“Ocean” finds the neo-soul veteran promising a…

10 Insanely Great Guns N’ Roses Songs Only Hardcore Fans Know

When classic-era Guns N’ Roses members Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan kicked off a massive stadium tour with an explosive L.A. gig last week – their first together in decades – it marked the reunion of some of hard rock’s best (and most dangerous) hit makers. Even in the band’s earliest days in 1985,…

See A Thousand Horses’ Kinetic ‘Southernality’ Video

A Thousand Horses’ gritty Southern rock aesthetic certainly translates on record, but it’s in the live setting where they’re truly able to transport a crowd to a time of extended guitar solos and sincere — not ironic — calls for “Freebird.” The band’s new video for “Southernality,” the title track from…

See Matthew Barber and Jill Barber’s Ethereal Neil Young Cover

Although they don’t come from a musical family per se, with their aptly titled release, The Family Album, Matthew Barber and his sister, Jill Barber, expound on the Canadian folk music tradition that influenced their upbringing. Half of the LP pays tribute to tunes from their fellow countrymen including Neil…