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Shooter Jennings and Yelawolf Share Last Sometimes Y Video for ‘Radio’
Shooter Jennings has been keeping himself busy with lots of recent music-making. Following his production work on Brandi Carlile‘s latest record and a slew of other projects, the producer extraordinaire’s first album with Yelawolf, Sometimes Y, is out now. In celebration of the album’s release, the duo shared the video for “Radio.” [embedded content][embedded content] “The ‘Radio’ video was the most epic shit I’ve done period,” Yelawolf says. “We blocked off the Strip for three hours, riding a Cadillac completely lawless in front of The Bellagio!! And my friends Braydon and Cass put on an amazing performance. They killed this. And rocking a Manuel suit under the lights of a casino does something to you. Overall we lived every moment of this video. Spidey created a classic. I think it’...
Bad Mothers’ ‘Dirty Rock’ Dreams
Musicians often bristle at being compared to other bands, but not Bad Mothers. “I think the Queens of the Stone Age reference makes all of us pretty happy,” singer/guitarist Matt Dalton says about recent write-ups on Bad Mothers’ liberating but masterful brand of dirty rock ‘n’ roll. “We’re pretty big Queens fans, but honestly, [the band’s sound] really is an amalgamation of a huge swath of influences.” He looks to drummer Brian Chiappinelli, perched next to him on the sofa. “Like Brian is heavily into hip hop. Me, what I listen to changes a lot. Our other guitarist [Patrick Flores], he’s very into neo-soul right now. Our bass player, Kevin [Bohen], is very much into bands like IDLES and heavier metal and punk and hardcore. When we get together and make music, it sounds like us, a heavier,...
Understanding Jason Boland’s ‘Borderline Cosmic’ Sci-Fi Country Magnum Opus
Like a transmission from a celestial CB radio, Jason Boland’s The Light Saw Me crackles to life with a garble of white noise that slows to a fiddle crawl and simmers there, hovering in the interstitial space between psychedelic country and barroom honky-tonk — and that’s just the first minute. On the record’s freewheeling prelude, “Terrifying Nature,” Boland’s narrator engages with the ageless, persistent question: What if we’re not alone in the universe? A query that sets off the unlikely trajectory of a sci-fi country concept album. As the far-fetched tale begins to unfold, what might seem like a strange juxtaposition to most folks, instead, amounts to a mid-career magnum opus for the Oklahoma songwriter and his band, The Stragglers. The gist: An 1890s cowboy is abducted by aliens and en...
Listen to Shooter Jennings’ ‘Leave Those Memories Alone’ Off Unreleased Record
Following his previously unheard remix release, Shooter Jennings just unveiled another new track “Leave Those Memories Alone.” “Leave Those Memories Alone” is Jennings cooking in his country roots, warning of the love powerful women can give: “Its time for you to go out and make some new memories of your own / You can dig up every bone.” The track resides in a completely different world than his newly retouched, electronic remix of his 2016 Countach (For Giorgio) highlight, “From Here To Eternity,” the “From Here To Eternity (Goof The Floof Remix)” that was released a few weeks ago. The two-time Grammy-winning musician, artist, and producer released the track as a preview for his previously unreleased Over A Cocaine Rainbow. The album was recorded between 2016-2018. “In 2017, we ...
Listen to Shooter Jennings’ Remix of ‘From Here To Eternity’
Shooter Jennings unearthed a remix of “From Here To Eternity” that was previously unavailable digitally. [embedded content][embedded content] The two-time Grammy-winning producer’s “From Here To Eternity” was a highlight off his 2016 Countach (For Giorgio) that scored a No. 7 spot on Billboard‘s “Top Dance/Electronic Albums” chart. The achievement placed Jennings in a small group of artists to have reached top 10 success in both “Top Dance/Electronic Albums” and “Top Country Albums” charts. The newly dropped remix is just a snippet of the work Jennings’ has contributed to this year, as the multi-talented artist also produced Brandi Carlile’s In These Silent Days and Jason Boland & The Stragglers’ upcoming record out December 3. He also co-produced Carlile’s 2018&nbs...
Brandi Carlile’s In These Silent Days Is Brilliantly Intimate
Perhaps no artist was better equipped to withstand quarantine, at least from a logistical perspective, than Brandi Carlile. The singer lives on a farm in rural Washington state, about 45 minutes outside Seattle (and 10 minutes from her tiny hometown of Ravensdale). Her core bandmates Phil and Tim Hanseroth are her neighbors, and their families hunkered down together throughout the pandemic. With her songwriting partners conveniently located within her “bubble,” Carlile continued to work, conjuring her aptly titled seventh studio LP In These Silent Days. The anticipated follow-up to her Grammy-winning masterstroke, 2018’s By The Way, I Forgive You, is once again magnificent — a triumphant patchwork of Americana, folk-rock, pop and soul anchored by yet another show-stopping centerpiece in “R...
Brandi Carlile to Return With In These Silent Days, Shares First Single ‘Right on Time’
It’s been a while since we last heard from Brandi Carlile, three years to be exact. Now, the singer-songwriter is back in a big way. Carlile will be releasing In These Silent Days on Oct. 1 via Low Country Sound/Elektra. She’ll team up with producers Dave Cobb and Shooter Jennings, who also helmed her 2018 Grammy-winning breakthrough By the Way, I Forgive You. The first single, a piano-driven ballad called “Right on Time,” can be heard below. The video for the song was directed by Friends/Scream/Ace Ventura: Pet Detective star Courteney Cox, no stranger to music videos herself. [embedded content] Carlile crafted the 10 songs that comprise In These Silent Days with longtime co-conspirators Tim and Phil Hanseroth. The songs were written while Carlile was quarant...
Record Store Day Shares New List of Exclusive Releases
Record Store Day has just announced 2020’s “RSD Drops,” its annual collection of vinyl which will be released on three separate days this year — Aug. 29, Sept. 26 and Oct. 24. While the event regularly takes place in April, organizers wanted vinyl collectors to be mindful of social-distancing regulations. And with previously unreleased tracks from David Bowie’s rehearsals for his 50th birthday show at Madison Square Garden, a 50th anniversary pressing of Paul McCartney’s McCartney, a Soundgarden tribute from Brandi Carlile and a RSD-exclusive EP from Meat Puppets, there’s plenty of reasons to mark your calendars a couple extra times. Here’s what RSD ambassador Carlile had to say about recording “Black Hole Sun” and “Searching With My Good Eye Closed.” “The twins and I met in the late ...
