Whenever a band or musician arrives with a fully realized, completely assured sound and aesthetic on their debut album, heaps of praise and accolades follow. Which makes sense, it is REALLY HARD to sound original and like you know what the fuck you're doing on your first album...
Labor Day weekend offers us one last blast of summer before the clocks change and you're rolling out of work in the darkness, before all the betties pack up their side boob-friendly tank tops for winter storage. Before the suck.
But don't get all melancholy...
Lana Del Rey has premiered the video for the title track off her latest album, Ultraviolence. After a string of more lavish productions, from "Born to Die" all the way through to Tropico and "Shades of Cool," the "Ultraviolence" clip marks a return to the grainy Super 8 look that she first made her (fake) name with...
Lana Del Rey's third Ultraviolence single has gotten three official remixes. Three European acts took on the album's title track: UK duo PBR Streetgang turned the dark ballad into a breezy disco jam, while British DJ Sonic Matta made it a '90s house-flavored dance workout, and French outfit The Penelopes transformed the song into a tropical-tinged pop anthem...
The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards are just about a month away, and Beyoncé unsurprisingly leads this year's field of nominees. With a video for each track from her latest release, she certainly had the numbers advantage, but considering the frenzy that the visual album caused, her eight nominations seems a tad underwhelming...
Yeah yeah, so we gave Canada a few seconds in the spotlight earlier this week. But now it's time to celebrate the Stars and Stripes. Centuries ago, our founding fathers courageously declared "America, fuck yeah!" and created this beautiful bastion of Kid Rock and corn subsidies, so it's your duty to throw the illest Independence Day cookout in their honor...