Provocative sing-speak songstress Cobrah has announced her debut album Torn, out March 6 via Atlantic Records. She’s shared the new single “Hush” alongside the announcement with a video directed by Julius Hayes. Cobrah is a multidisciplinary artist from Gothenburg, Sweden that
Once a year, the Nelsonville Music Festival brings a thoughtfully curated collection of artists to Nelsonville, Ohio. Our own Chris DeVille was there last year, and he proclaimed that the festival "rules." Allow him to elaborate: "The way forward, as has been obvious for a
J. Cole has shared the backstory behind the artwork for his upcoming album The Fall-Off — which is a double-disc project featuring multiple covers. Taking to social media on Thursday (January 29), Cole revealed the alternate CD cover which is an up-to-date portrait of the
The star will release a compilation album, The Collaborations , on April 18
In 2024, the Messthetics, the adventurous instrumental DC trio that includes Fugazi’s former rhythm section, teamed up with jazz saxophonist James Brandon Lewis for the imaginatively titled collaborative album The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis. It was awesome. Now, they’re
The Houston native talks about the inspiration behind his fifth studio album, sessions with his son, and his outlook moving forward
This week’s New Music Friday offers something for everyone, whether your hip-hop taste leans towards the current gen or the golden age, East Coast or West Coast, lyrics-driven or rage-ready. A little later than expected, The Game returns with The Credits, a 12-track sequel to
In the past year or so, the Denver punk and hardcore label Convulse Records has put out music from MSPAINT, Destiny Bond, Gumm, Big Laugh, Eliminators, and Pat Flynn’s new project How Much Art, among many others. Anytime I get an alert from the Convulse Bandcamp, I give that
Last year, May told Rolling Stone that Queen were discussing shows at the Sphere — now he says the U.S. has become a “dangerous place” and the band will avoid the country
In their first interview since their split in 2017, two members of the U.K. post-punk quartet talk about the end of the band and the unreleased tracks they recently shared
Auckland’s Georgia Nott is part of the indie electro-pop duo BROODS, but lately she’s been releasing solo music under the name Georgia Gets By. We posted her single “Madeline” two summers ago, which was part of an EP for Gorilla vs. Bear’s record label Luminelle. This week Nott
Recorded in their home base of Boise, the new concert LP captures the energy and chops of a band that country fans need to know
Last year, Rosalía responded to an accusation that she's been silent on Israel's ongoing genocide of Palestinian people. After Spanish fashion designer Miguel Adrover posted about refusing to work with her because of her reticence to speak on the issue, Rosalía wrote, "The fact
Katseye and Addison Rae also played stellar sets at the streamer’s can’t-miss blowout
Last year, the jangly Montreal indie-pop band Prism Shores caught our attention with their album Out From Underneath. Now, they’ve already got another full-length ready to drop. This spring, Prism Shores will release Softest Attack, the new LP that they recorded with
Spokeswoman attempts to pivot away from addressing the powerful message in “Streets of Minneapolis”
As far as we know, Ariana Grande does not have six fingers on her left hand. Furthermore, she did not kill Inigo Montoya's father, and she should not prepare to die. But in the latest Vogue Japan issue tells a different story. In that gauzy image, Grande waves a six-fingered
“It’s the greatest reward in music, seeing a young artist persevere and blossom,” John says in Spotify clip. “It keeps me alive and inspired”
Hayley Williams has been working with producer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel James since Paramore's 2017 album After Laughter , and they're just now launching Power Snatch, a new project that they've been quietly teasing since last year. This weekend, Williams and James are
Twin Cities artist Nur-D talks was tackled to the ground while peacefully protesting the death of Alex Pretti, but remains dedicated: “We will not stop fighting”
The Grammys are happening this Sunday, Feb. 1. Last night, Spotify kicked off the weekend's festivities with their annual pre-party, which celebrated the Best New Artist nominees. The event returned this year following its cancellation last year due to wildfire recovery and
A legendary popstar once captured the innate thirst of desire with the line, singing in squabbled Auto-Tune: “I just want to drink you up.” On her latest single “Cola,” Swedish pop auteur Namasenda continues to quench our parchedness and lust. “Cola” is Namasenda’s first single
I remember the first time I saw Megadeth like it was yesterday. It was Sept. 23, 2006, at the Columbus stop of that year's Gigantour, an ultimately doomed Ozzfest competitor that booked some killer lineups in its short life. My friends and I got to Nationwide Arena hours before
The headline at the top of this blog post probably isn’t fair. Willie Nelson did not actually record a duet with Jobe Smith, a gardener with intellectual disabilities who gets plugged into a virtual reality supercomputer and becomes a godlike digital super-being. But when you
“When you pass on, what you gonna pass down?” the country stars ask in the song, which tells the tale of a landowning family
Weezer’s 1996 sophomore album Pinkerton is a fucked-up, horny, self-doubting scrawl of a record that famously almost ended the band. Pinkerton was a commercial and mostly critical failure when it came out, but it quickly found a huge cult audience and informed tons of emo and
Major stars who are up for multiple big awards will hit the stage on music’s biggest night
The bitter legal battle between Mötley Crüe and their founding guitarist Mick Mars is over, and the Crüe won. In 2022, the band announced that Mars was retiring from touring because of his battle with ankylosing spondylitis, a degenerative bone disease, but that Mars would
The deaths of U.S. citizens in Minneapolis and the violence ICE has perpetuated has revived a folk-music tradition from artists across genres
It's been almost two years since Sam Mendes announced his plan to direct four different Beatles biopics, one for each member. In April last year the cast was confirmed : Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, and Joseph
“The decision is awful,” Mars’ attorney tells Rolling Stone
A rising star’s second album takes influence from Seventies soul and singer-songwriter icons, but makes the sound his own