Hank ShteamerĪ new six-song set from the “Classic Man” singer features “Bambi Too,” a remix of the swooning The Chief track “Bambi” that features Migos’ Quavo, British producer Maleek Berry and Ghanian MC Sarkodie. And the harder-edged songs, especially “Under the Screw,” where Vega and Cage unleash the swaggering wallop that powered vintage favorites like “Fazer” and “Brown Gargantuan,” find the band’s mosh-fueling mojo sturdily intact. Personal issues kept original guitarist Tom Capone from participating in the sessions, and his volatile leads are missed, but on tracks like “Hyperion” and lead single “Illuminant,” singer-guitarist Walter Schreifels – who often trades his old keyed-up shout for a dreamy croon here – bassist Sergio Vega (also of Deftones) and drummer Alan Cage hit on a new collective sweet spot that’s as melancholy as it is muscular. On Interiors, the band’s first LP in 22 years, they skillfully mine a more reflective zone. Their 1993 debut, Slip, remains a period classic. Louis native, whose Your Woman was one of Rolling Stone‘s best albums of 2016, releases a collection of demos, B-sides, and rare tracks.ĭuring their initial Nineties run, New York quartet Quicksand channeled the fury of its members’ former hardcore bands like Youth of Today and Beyond into a taut, infectious alt-metal sound. Read Our Feature: Walk the Moon Get Back to Their Rock Roots On New LP They’re much more personal and are very close to the heart, very raw.” “But the lyrics are kind of the opposite. “Sonically, we’re reaching for taller, wider, and more vast, more epic sounds,” frontman Nicholas Petricca told Rolling Stone. The Cincinnati-based band – whose 2014 anthem “Shut Up and Dance” is one of the decade’s biggest rock hits – returns to their roots on this vibrant, noisy album. Hear: Amazon Music Unlimited | Apple Music | Bandcamp | SoundCloud Go | Spotify | Tidal Read Rob Sheffield’s Essay: How Hüsker Dü’s Grant Hart Changed Punk Rock “Everything’s so fucked up/I guess it’s natural that way” howls Bob Mould near the set’s end, locating a rock catharsis the band would mine for just four more years before imploding and leaving behind an awesome legacy that just got bigger. Three CDs and a 144-page book trace a five-year, 69-song arc from introspective pro-forma punk to the melodic white noise blast furnace of their 19-minute-long debut Things Fall Apart – included here, alongside breathtaking unreleased live sets and studio tracks. The secret history of America’s greatest hardcore band, which became far more than a hardcore band. Hear: Amazon Music Unlimited | Apple Music | SoundCloud Go | Spotify | Tidal Read Our 1992 Review: R.E.M., ‘Automatic for the People’ Read Our Feature: R.E.M.’s ‘Automatic for the People’: 10 Things You Didn’t Know The remastered edition of R.E.M.’s 1992 masterpiece, which Rolling Stone named one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, gets packaged with demos from the band’s fertile early-Nineties period and a live recording from the 40 Watt Club, the storied rock venue located in Athens, Georgia.
"Long Live the Chief" was released last year and will also appear on Jidenna's debut album of the same name to be released this fall.R.E.M., Automatic For the People (25th Anniversary Edition) Meanwhile, the song continues during scenes of Luke Cage (Mike Colter) searching through the rubble that used to be his apartment building and Claire (Rosario Dawson) chasing down a man who stole her purse. Show villain Cornell “Cottonmouth” Stokes (Mahershala Ali) watches the performance from the second floor. Jidenna himself performs the anthemic rap song while the show's nightclub, Harlem's Paradise, is empty. The song is featured on the Netflix show's soundtrack and appears during its fifth episode, titled "Just to Get a Rep." Jidenna's empowering rap song "Long Live the Chief" has experienced a more than 2,000% jump in streaming on Spotify compared to just a week ago. "Marvel's Luke Cage" is giving one song a huge lift. Warning: Spoilers ahead if you haven't watched the fifth episode of "Marvel's Luke Cage."