“The Passenger” is one of those songs. To be able to sing “The Passenger” properly, you have to summon levels of intensity that few vocalists could even approach. Iggy Pop co-wrote and recorded the icy, anthemic original for his classic 1977 solo album Lust For Life. A decade later, Siouxsie And the Banshe...

Taylor Swift’s new double-album The Tortured Poets Department came out on Friday, and it’s full of namechecks. On the title track, the pop star mentions rock legend Patti Smith; on “The Black Dog,” she summons pop-punk band the Starting Line. Both acts have shared their reactions.

They’re back! The Walkmen, the elegantly bedraggled princes of early-’00s New York rock, broke up to much ballyhoo in 2013, but they recently announced plans to reunite for their first shows in nearly a decade. Before they finally took the stage together, it was an open question whether the Walkmen would be able to practice t...

From Hawkins To Amsterdam, the minds behind the 'Stranger Things' score do everything in their power to summon Vecna’s energy to ADEThe post Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein live in Amsterdam: ‘Stranger Things’ composers bring the Upside Down to life appeared first on NME.

Guitarist Logan Young blasts out brutal riffs over the sound of a troubled husky howling like a screaming demon, and it's pretty gnarly