Chad Smith on Why the Chili Peppers’ 2022 Tour Is ‘Scary’ — and Netflix Drum Doc ‘Count Me In’
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‘We’ll literally have our balls out,’ drummer jokes about upcoming tour. ‘No one wants to see that! Old balls!’
The Secret Music of Plants
Posted in: Music FeaturesIn the 1970's a genre of music made specifically to help plants grow took the world by storm, but do plants actually respond to music?
David Crosby on the Sorrow and Joy Behind ‘If I Could Only Remember My Name’
Posted in: Music FeaturesCrosby gives a track-by-track guide to his 1971 solo debut. ‘I was an immature person, stoned out of my mind, hit with something I absolutely couldn’t handle. It’s amazing I managed to get into the studio at all’
An Ode to Sault’s Disappearing Album ‘Nine’
Posted in: Music FeaturesAfter leaving streaming platforms last week, we revisit the mysterious U.K. collective’s ephemeral album experiment
Drummer Sterling Campbell on His Years With David Bowie, Duran Duran, and Soul Asylum
Posted in: Music FeaturesHe was Bowie’s go-to dummer for the last 20 years of his career, but Campbell also toured with Cyndi Lauper and played on Soul Asylum’s “Runaway Train”
The Diablo Guide to Heavy Music Week 3
Posted in: Music FeaturesThere’s a high chance you’ve not heard from your action role-playing video game loving friends since around Friday, 24th September; the official release date of Diablo II: Resurrected. The master stroke from co-developers Blizzard Entertainment and Vicarious Visions to remaster the iconic hack-and-slash title originally released in 2000 hit fans right in the soft spot […]
The Hard-Ons Find Their Voice
Posted in: Music Features premiumRecruiting You Am I's Tim Rogers as their new vocalist, it's clear that veteran Sydney punk outfit the Hard-Ons are gearing up for big things.
Stray Kids’ Recipe for Success
Posted in: Music FeaturesWith 7.54 million YouTube subscribers and hundreds of millions of Spotify streams (and counting), the Korean-Australian K-pop megastars are cooking up a storm.
It’s Easier for Global Acts to Play in Russia Than in the U.S. Right Now
Posted in: Music FeaturesCovid-19 has made U.S. visa issues even more of a headache for musicians
Artists Hate Genres. Kelefa Sanneh Thinks That’s All Wrong
Posted in: Music FeaturesSanneh, a longtime music critic, offers a spirited “defense of musical genres” — from rap to country to punk — in his new book Major Labels
