Introducing Deadshirt.net’s new weekly feature Deadshirt Is Listening… Bringing you a rundown our staff’s and guest contributors’ favorite new tracks released in the past week after they’ve had the weekend to blast them in their cars, in a club, or alone in their rooms. So, Read More …
10 years have passed since Kanye West released his groundbreaking, paradigm shifting debut album. Before he was a God, he was just a college dropout. Hip Hop hasn’t been the same since. Read More …
James Mercer and Brian Burton first hooked up in 2010, three years into a seemingly endless hiatus for the Shins and hot off Danger Mouse collaborations with Beck, Sparklehorse, and the Black Keys. Their eponymous LP, Broken Bells, was something of a curio – Mercer’s Read More …
I remember several months to a year ago hearing about some partnership between Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and Beats By Dre to create some new music service. I recall being incredibly dismissive of the news, as the Beats brand to me was synonymous Read More …
On Halloween 2013, Too True, the third full-length album by LA band Dum Dum Girls, was announced. When reporting it, Pitchfork jokingly called it “Bangerz: Goth Edition” noting the similarities between poses of lead singer Dee Dee Penny and Miley Cyrus on their respective album Read More …
Against Me!’s latest album is the first to be released since the emergence of frontwoman Laura Jane Grace, formerly known as Tom Gabel, who came out as a transgender woman in 2012, and if you think they’re going to shy away from this even a Read More …
Well, 2013 is over and done with, but that doesn’t mean that we have to stop talking about it. Today we’re celebrating the best music of the last twelve months. Through the magic of Spotify, Deadshirt presents our favorite music tracks from this past year, Read More …
The Only Black Kid at A Sufjan Concert (Intro) “10K for the drinks, now they say I’m insane / It’s been that for a minute now, Hedi Slimane…” “Childish Gambino,” the rapper alter ego of writer/comedian/actor/compulsive hyphenate Donald Glover, has always been a problematic musical Read More …
At face value, it’s hard to miss the oddity of Foreverly. Billie Joe “Front Man of Green Day” Armstrong and Norah “Grammy Winner/Daughter of Ravi Shankar ” Jones collaborating to remake a 1958 Everly Brothers album of American folk songs. That’s about as close to Read More …
22 years ago yesterday, Freddie Mercury, lead singer of the iconic rock band Queen, died of complications from AIDS. While some artists fade into obscurity after their death or retirement, Freddie Mercury and Queen remain an enormously popular rock icon whose music is enjoyed across Read More …