August 2014 Music Articles
- The 5 Best New Songs We Heard This Week: QT, Stevie Nicks, Ariana Grande
- The Darkness in the Mirror: Manic Street Preachers’ “The Holy Bible,” 20 Years On
- Fall 2014 Music Preview: 20 Albums to Get Excited About
- Rivers Cuomo’s Harvard Life Seems Ripe For TV
- Ariana Grande, The Diva In Training Wheels
- The New Pornographers’ Carl Newman: “Whether People Love You or Hate You, It’s All Phantoms”
- Between Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, Celebrity Feminism Is So Hot Right Now
- Andrew W.K. — A Philosopher for Our Times
- Welcome to Alternate Routes, Jesse Jarnow’s Guide to Obscure Corners of Music
- Matt Sharp on The Rentals’ Future and the Weezer That Could Have Been
- “Problem,” “Royals,” and Other Pop Songs Transformed into Flowery Sonnets
- Flavorwire Video Premiere: Roladex, “Glass Statuette”
- Exclusive Photo Gallery: Afropunk 2014
- MTV VMAs 2014: The Year of the Class Act
- The 6 Best New Songs We Heard This Week: J. Cole, Charli XCX
- Flavorwire’s Official VMAs 2014 Drinking Game
- A Guide to All the Gratuitous Product Placement in Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” Video
- Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” and the Cult of Awkward White Girls
- An Exclusive Sneak Peek at Wayne Coyne’s Next Wacky Side Project!
- Boomer Audit: Jim Morrison Was a Moment in Time, Not an All-Time Legend
- Taylor Swift Announces Her 1980s Pop Album, and Other Takeaways From Her Live Stream
- Flavorwire Premiere: Teleman Spins Bauhaus Art Into Playful “Skeleton Dance” Video
- The 5 Best New Songs We Heard This Week: My Brightest Diamond, Jessie Ware
- “The Right Sound at the Right Time”: Basement Jaxx on House Music’s Comeback — and Theirs
- The 25 Greatest Songs About City Life
- Flavorwire’s 50 Best Album Closing Tracks: A Spotify Playlist
- Understanding The Enigma That Is FKA twigs: A Pie Chart
- With ‘The Golden Echo,’ Kimbra Applies Lessons Learned from Gotye Hit: “There Are No Rules”
- Flavorwire Premiere: Watch Betty Who Play Truth or Dare, ’90s Style, on ‘Slumber Party at Emmie’s House’
- 14 Artists Who Are Keeping the Band Logo Tradition Alive in 2014
- The 50 Best Album Closing Tracks in History
- Musicians Drinking the Spotify Haterade: The Collected Complaints
- Divas Being Leaders and Blowing Things Up in the Desert: A Music Video Treasury
- The 5 Best New Songs We Heard This Week: Nicki Minaj, The Knocks, Merchandise
- Fear and Self-Loathing: PHOX on the Reality of Being a Buzz Band in 2014
- Flavorwire Premiere: Cellist Maya Beiser Transforms Nirvana’s “Lithium” Into Ferocious Classical Music
- Electric Zoo’s “The Molly” PSA Won’t Stop Drug Use at EDM Festivals — But It’s Still Better Than “Just Say No”
- Why Is It Nearly Impossible for Musicians to Fly With Their Gear?
- The Grateful Dead Are History’s Most Misunderstood Punk Band
- Spoon: The Most Consistent, Least Gimmicky Band in Indie Rock
- Flavorwire Artist Playlist: The Wytches’ Surf-Rock Favorites
- 12 Hilarious Black Flag Logo Parodies
- Rock’s Most Inscrutable Lyrics, As Interpreted By SongMeanings
- Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda”: It Takes a Woman to Write the Ultimate Big-Booty Anthem
- The 5 Best New Songs We Heard This Week: J Mascis, Sophie
- 10 Albums You Need to Hear in August
- New Showtime Doc Is a Geeks-Only Backstage Pass to David Bowie’s Most Creative Years
- “Maced by a Feminist”: The Retro, Weirdo Misogyny of Ariel Pink
