It never topped Billboard’s Hot 100, didn’t receive any Grammy nominations, and wasn’t among YouTube’s 10 most popular music videos this year, but in 2015 Drake’s “Hotline Bling” dominated online culture like no other song.
It never topped Billboard’s Hot 100, didn’t receive any Grammy nominations, and wasn’t among YouTube’s 10 most popular music videos this year, but in 2015 Drake’s “Hotline Bling” dominated online culture like no other song.
If there’s a lesson from 2015’s top 50 albums, it’s this: You can never be too famous to push yourself. There are plenty of relative unknowns in the group — DIY home-recording auteurs, underground extreme-metal blood-churners, edge-of-noise experimenters. But especially in the upper reaches of this year’s list, you will find plenty of people who were already famous when 2015 began. None of them found their way onto this list by making the same sorts of music they’ve always made. All of them found new ways to tinker with their voices, to make them even more powerful.
Chvrches at the Highline in New York city for Stereogum © Ryan Muir
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New Painted Palms song, “Tracers,” up now on Stereogum!
Disgusting: ISIS Just Released A 2-Star Review Of ‘In The Aeroplane Over The Sea’
As ISIS continues to increase its deadly and destructive influence across the Middle East, it becomes increasingly clear that there is no act too atrocious for the terrorist organization, and its latest disgusting salvo proves just that. Earlier this morning, members of the Islamic State released a two-star review of Neutral Milk Hotel’s sophomore album, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.
According to reports, the devastating 500-word review, which appeared online at 7:45 a.m., attacks nearly every aspect of the 1998 indie album, again showing that ISIS is capable of anything.
