Earlier this year, Australian rock band Cable Ties released a one-off “Perfect Client.” Now we know that track is set to appear on a brand-new Cable Ties album, All Her Plans, which follows up 2020’s Far Enough. All Her Plans will arrive later in June via Merge, and a press relea … | Continue reading
Later this spring, the veteran UK producer Chris Clark will release Sus Dog, a new album that credits Clark’s old comrade Thom Yorke as executive producer. The album features Clark singing, a new development for him, so he reached out to Yorke for guidance. Clark says that the al … | Continue reading
The iHeartRadio Music Awards are going down tonight at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, and the nominees include familiar favorites such as Taylor Swift, Doja Cat, Harry Styles, Jack Harlow, Lizzo, Lil Nas X, Justin Bieber, and Latto, among others. Also on the docket is Phoebe B … | Continue reading
In May, Arlo Parks is releasing a new album, My Soft Machine, the follow-up to her 2021 debut Collapsed In Sunbeams. Over the weekend, Parks performed at the BBC 6 Music Festival in Cardiff and brought out some special guests. The xx’s Romy Madley Croft joined her to duet on “Bla … | Continue reading
Mississippi morning news anchor and chief meteorologist Barbie Bassett has been fired after quoting Snoop Dogg on air earlier this month. Bassett worked at NBC affiliate WLBT, and during a March 8 broadcast she engaged in an on-air discussion around Snoop’s Cali wine line. At one … | Continue reading
Cathy Pellow, the owner of LA hard-rock label and management company Sargent House, is “stepping away from” her company and closing its management side after Henry Kohen of Mylets made a series of detailed allegations around the venue’s culture. He also accuses Pellow herself of … | Continue reading
In March of 2003, my cousin took me to see my first small-theater concert. Technically, he was my cousin’s husband, and he was the coolest. He lived in Brooklyn, played in a band, and had a massive CD collection he would let me borrow from whenever I would visit. He introduced me … | Continue reading
Joanna Newsom hasn’t released a new album since 2015’s Divers, and before last night, she hadn’t played a live show since a January 2020 gig in Austin. Last night, Newsom returned to the stage as a surprise opening act. Fleet Foxes played at the Belasco in Los Angeles with a secr … | Continue reading
Last year, James Goodson — the one-man force behind Band To Watch Dazy — released his project’s first full-length album, OUTOFBODY, which followed a string of EPs that he recorded during the pandemic at breakneck speed. Looks like he’s not slowing down, either. Today, Goodson has … | Continue reading
Pitchfork has announced the lineup for the 2023 edition of its Chicago music festival. The Smile, Big Thief, and Bon Iver are the headliners this year; Alvvays, Perfume Genius, Weyes Blood, King Krule, Kelela, and Koffee also got the big-font treatment on the poster. | Continue reading
Earlier this year, LA rap cult hero 03 Greedo was released from prison on parole after serving five years of a 20-year sentence for drug trafficking and gun possession. Before he went to prison, Greedo recorded an insane amount of new music, and his records kept coming out while … | Continue reading
Kelly Clarkson and Florence Welch should be best friends. They’re both classic belters with exploding-supernova voices who know how to sell colossal choruses, and they both come off like really nice people. (I’ve never met either of them, but that’s always been the vibe.) Kelly C … | Continue reading
Jane’s Addiction has been hitting the touring and festival circuit hard these last couple years, though the band hasn’t released an album since 2011’s The Great Escape Artist. But new music is starting to come together, even though Dave Navarro is on an indefinite break from the … | Continue reading
At the end of the month, rapper Pink Siifu and producer Ahwlee are releasing a new album together as B. Cool-Aid called Leather Blvd. We’ve shared two tracks from it already — “Cnt Go Back (Tell Me)” and “Wassup” — and today we’re getting a third, “soundgood,” where the pair team … | Continue reading
In 2020, Irish folk musician Brigid Mae Power earned a ton of critical acclaim for her album Head Above The Water. The following year, Power released a covers EP called Burning Your Light featuring reimagined versions of songs by Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Townes Van Zandt, Pats … | Continue reading
Love Rising is a benefit concert that will take place later this month at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville to raise money for LGBTQIA+ organizations in response to the state’s anti-LGBT legislation, including the recently passed laws restricting drag shows and transgender treat … | Continue reading
It’s been a fascinating run for Alaska Reid. When I first encountered the LA-based Montana native’s music seven years ago, she was making moody guitar-powered alt-rock with the band Alyeska. Since going solo in 2019, her music has taken a poppier, more synthetic turn while mainta … | Continue reading
This past week, the fashion line Heaven By Marc Jacobs launched a new capsule collaboration with Deftones and the streetwear brand Stray Rats. Items featured in the collection included Deftones-branded shirts, bracelets, pins, earrings, and other various apparel, and a $30 Around … | Continue reading
Robert Haimer, one-half of the duo Barnes & Barnes has died at age 69. His bandmate Bill Mumy confirmed the news in a Facebook post, writing: “Robert was a one of a kind artist and person. Our relationship was based on harmony as was our music. Sometimes there was dissonance and … | Continue reading
It’s been 20 years and no one’s written a more vicious review of The Ugly Organ than Tim Kasher himself. On “Butcher The Song,” the Cursive frontman repeatedly likens his creative process to taking a shit; at other points, it’s more like masturbation. Either way, the end result i … | Continue reading
New legislation in New York State will require ticketing companies to show “all-in” ticket prices that show all inclusive and ancillary fees up front. That means that the final ticket cost — on both primary and resale sellers — must be disclosed on the ticket’s initial listing, a … | Continue reading
T Bone Burnett has unveiled a new analog audio format that he’s calling “the pinnacle of recorded sound.” He teamed up with Bob Dylan, who re-recorded a number of his own songs, for what is being called an Ionic Original, a one-of-a-kind disc that apparently surpasses the sonic f … | Continue reading
For many years now, a man named Spencer Elden has been saying he was the baby featured on the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind reaching for a dollar in a swimming pool. Often, he has seemed to celebrate that status, even re-creating the image at various points in his life. However, h … | Continue reading
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Pearl Jam first teased their upcoming album Gigaton via a worldwide augmented reality scavenger hunt. And they are once again proving that they are young and hip and know what augmented reality is by teasing their new single using the same technology. Pitchfork report that Pearl … | Continue reading
Music publications Spin and Stereogum will no longer be a part of Billboard-The Hollywood Reporter Media Group, parent company Valence Media announced today (Jan. 16). Spin has been acquired by Next Management Partners, a private equity firm that specializes in digital media. Thi … | Continue reading
Let's start now. Or as close to now as can be defined in this conversation, between the time and place I am in as I write these words and the time and place you are in as you read them. On my end, now is roughly two weeks after the release of Andrew W.K.'s video for the title tra … | Continue reading
On July 1 of 1979, Sony first began to sell the TPS-L2, first known as the Soundabout and soon rechristened the Walkman. This original Walkman wasn't the first portable tape player, but it was the first that didn't have a record function. Portable cassette recorders had mostly be … | Continue reading
The wind whistles. A camera pans up on blocky brutalist Detroit tenement buildings, looming impassively. We hear a creaking sound, and we eventually realize that it's coming from a giant tricycle decorated in chromed-out skulls. The man piloting this vehicle is Ouija Macc, a youn … | Continue reading
The Flaming Lips leader looks back on 2018, and gives us a preview of the band's new Tom Petty-inspired album. | Continue reading
Jered Threatin is a metalhead from Los Angeles who sings and plays every instrument in the one-man hard-rock band Threatin. Despite the project's thousands of Facebook likes and YouTube views, you probably haven't heard of it. That's because Threatin faked his entire online fanba … | Continue reading
"We are removing R. Kelly’s music from all Spotify owned and operated playlists and algorithmic recommendations such as Discover Weekly," Spotify says. | Continue reading