Most Vinyl readers, if they’re not complete and utter monsters, probably have fond adolescent memories of Jimmy Eat World. Regardless of your opinions on the divisive emo and pop-punk movements of the early aughts, the supercharged pop emotion in classics like “The Middle” and “Pain” are usually crowd pleasers, even if their more recent output…
Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic just won titles at Wimbledon, crossing out a highly respected grand slam off their to-do list. They did it while wearing white on white, the traditional attire for the Wimbledon tournament. Just because the week of tennis is over doesn’t mean the trends have to end. In honor of Williams and…
There is really no other way to put it…every return to Electric Forest feels like coming home. The Forest is a place where attendees come to be themselves, leave the outside world for a couple of days, become part of a family and be free. In its fifth year known as Electric Forest, the festival…
The Fall 2015 Couture shows just finished up in Paris on Thursday, so after a quick Eiffel Tower picture here, a Karl Lagerfeld quote there, and in the case of this year’s shows, a casino night, there’s finally a chance to sit down and wrap up the week for ourselves: Starstruck: Zuhair Murad found stars…
It’s usually a safe bet that strange things are a-brewin’ in Sweden. Despite its chefs and furniture outlets, the country is no less mysterious to the general public, so freak folk collective Goat have stepped in to fill in the gaps. Sort of. Not much is known about the group’s members – they claim to have over…
Few bands have been as on-again-off-again, as will-they-won’t-they, as The Libertines. Formed in 1997 by BFFs (Best Frenemies Forever) Carl Barât and Pete Doherty, the group had line-up and punctuality problems from the start. Their rough shod, jangle punk sound garnered a heap of attention from British fans and press alike, but drug use, inter-band…
AthFest – also known as Athens-Clarke County’s premiere local music festival – went down this weekend, and here is a brief VinylMag recap of some things that happened. Another year, another exclamation that our music scene is better than yours. I mean, where else can you find this much talent in one town? Don’t say New…
T. Hardy Morris is back with his second LP and a new haircut (above photo related). Continuing his journey as a solo artist, Morris partners with Dangerbird Records to release Hardy and The Hard Knocks: Drownin’ on a Mountaintop. Igniting with distorted guitar and heavy pedal steel, the album’s leading track, “Young Assumptions,” gives an…
Son Lux are set to release their Glassnote debut Bones this year, and have just released a video for their lead single “You Don’t Know Me”. The star is none other than Tatiana Maslany – a.k.a. Tumblr’s perpetual nomination for all of the awards. Maslany stars in BBC’s Orphan Black as approximately forty hundred cloned characters, all of…
In the Spring 2016 Menswear collection, Saint Laurent re-established the definition of cool. You’ve either got it, or you don’t. And if creative director Hedi Slimane throws a leopard scarf, polka dot button down and fringed jacket at you, it’s up to you what you do with it. Slimane kept the details intricate with every…