Everyone has heard about Robert Plant and his well known, self-professed hatred for “Stairway to Heaven,” or Slash’s iconic lack of fondness for “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” but there’s a much longer list of artists with contempt some of their own major work. In the spirit of departing from overtly sensationalist, click-bait titles, this list…
Ross Woomer
Lovekills: ‘Pure’ EP
Loveskills (aka Richard Spitzer) is a Brooklyn-based producer of enticing sounds and eclectic electronica that pulls from the various influences of R&B, pop, hip-hop, trap, and electro-soul subgenres. With these, he fashions beats that amaze and astound, rearranging them into moving contraptions powered by copious amounts of the cool and crisp elements of EDM in…
New Found Glory x Vinyl Mag
“We’re not in a band to record records; we’re in a band to do the music we love over and over and over again.” In music, persistence is one of the most valuable characteristics of a successful career; take a look at New Found Glory, the American “godfathers of punk rock,” and members that can…
Milky Chance: ‘Sadnecessary’
Milky Chance is a project from humble roots, comprised of Philipp Dausch and Clemens Rehbein, two acquaintances that sought to make music throughout their high school career while living in Kassel, Germany. Over the course of two weeks in 2013, they cut their full-length album, Sadnecessary, in their home studio — a culmination of their…
Yes I’m Leaving: ‘Slow Release’
The likes of Billy Burke, Anthony Boyer, and David Cook comprise Sydney’s own hardcore punk-imbued trifecta of kickass disarray that is Yes I’m Leaving, and after two LPs, this Australian band is looking to hit things back off with their album Slow Release, out via Homeless Records come September 29, 2014. Yes I’m Leaving’s aptly entitled…
The Lovers Key: “Saturday Night (Remix)”
When Christopher Moll linked up with Maco Monthervil, The Lovers Key project rocketed off in a blaze of soulful sounds and retro pop-infused tracks that finally manifested itself in their 2014 debut album, Here Today, Gone Tomorrow. The Lovers Key blends some exceedingly retro musical influences with a leading voice that sounds as if someone…
Young the Giant: “Mind Over Matter (In the Open)”
Young the Giant’s September release of another travel-induced, impromptu music video is here to add to their growing repertoire of roadside, seaside, and hillside (pretty much wherever) jam sessions belonging to their “In The Open” series. Their latest performance comes to us from the edge of Angeles Crest Highway in southern California, and, being next…