“I saw an ad online/ With a man in his prime/ ‘You can change your life/ For a limited time’/ My life was in decline.” These are the dystopian opening lines of Stuck’s new single “Instakill.” The Chicago post-punks are announcing their new album Optimizer today, and they’re
The Queens-based artist Margaret Sohn makes conceptual pop music under the name Miss Grit, and their debut album Follow The Cyborg came out three years ago. Miss Grit recently appeared on tracks from mui zyu and the Null Club and released the single “Tourist Mind,” and now
Dream Fatigue come from Salem, Massachusetts, and they specialize in the kind of churning, heavy alt-rock that’s all the rage in the underground these days. Drummer Matt Wood used to be in both Vein and Fleshwater, and there’s a lot of Fleshwater in Dream Fatigue’s big choruses
In the fall, Dutch Interior returned with “Play The Song,” their first material since their Fat Possum debut Moneyball. Now, the rising SoCal crew is back with the announcement of a new EP called It’s Glass. The incredibly beautiful tearjerker “Ground Scores” is out today.
When Le Tigre put out their self-titled debut album in 1999, the opening track “Deceptacon” felt like an instant underground smash and a full-on manifesto. It was as charged and immediate as any of the music that Kathleen Hanna made with her previous band Bikini Kill, and it
Last week, Chuck D and John Densmore announced their debut album no country for old men under the name of doPE. The moniker is meant to combine the beginning of the Doors' lowercase logo and the Public Enemy abbreviation PE, but longstanding NYC industrial crew Dope are
In October, Neil Young pulled his catalog from Amazon Music and called for a boycott. "BUY LOCAL. BUY DIRECT. BEZOS SUPPORTS THIS GOVERNMENT. IT DOES NOT SUPPORT YOU OR ME," he wrote. Now, he's reasserting that stance on his website and announcing that he's gifting his entire
Doechii, who performed at last year’s ceremony, will also be presenting
Last year, Numero Group reissued music from Jejune, the emo outfit that formed in 1996 and broke up in 2000. Responsible for three albums — Junk , This Afternoon's Malady , R.I.P — the group is back now and ready to shred. Last night they reunited for a surprise show in
“Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president,” Young writes to fans. “My music will never be available on Amazon, as long as it is owned by Bezos”
The late, legendary reggae production duo worked with many of the biggest pop and rock stars of the past 40 years
The two Latin superstars brought it all the way to 2017 with their collab single "Ahora Me Llama"
Ashley Walters convinced a judge that California's new two-year revival window for otherwise time-barred claims of sexual assault applies to her claims
The rapper will be on-hand to help the president launch "Trump Accounts," a new type of investment account for children
Pharrell Williams spends a lot of time in Paris these days as the Men's Creative Director for Louis Vuitton, a role he took on in 2023 , succeeding the late Virgil Abloh. Last week those duties included overseeing LVMH's show Paris Fashion Week, where he debuted a new collab
I remember when I first heard about Madison Beer. It was 2012, and I was deep in the pop blogging mines, scrolling Google Reader under the eye of a life-size Justin Bieber cutout. The Western world had just been rocked by the smash K-pop hit "Gangnam Style." Blue Ivy was still
The book P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance traces the star’s music and activism
Pharrell has issued a response to a new lawsuit from his former Neptunes partner Chad Hugo over allegations that he’s owed up to $1 million in unpaid royalties. Filed in federal court in California on Friday (January 23), Hugo’s suit claims that Pharrell has withheld
With bassist Robbie Shakespeare, Dunbar recorded and produced countless hit records, and played a crucial role in reggae’s modern evolution
Kanye West has issued his lengthiest apology yet for his past antisemitic comments that derailed his lucrative partnership with adidas, decimated his billion-dollar net worth and damaged his legacy as a socially-outspoken hip-hop icon. In a full-length ad titled “To Those I’ve
A look back at their timeless classic "The Super Bowl Shuffle," which hit Number 41 on the Hot 100, sold a million VHS tapes, and has been parodied (but never topped) countless times
Legendary rap producer the Alchemist has been making music since the early ’90s, when he was one half of teenage Beverly Hills duo the Whooliganz with Scott Caan. He continues to make tons and tons of music. A few months ago, Armand Hammer and the Alchemist released Mercy,
Sly Dunbar, the incredibly prolific Jamaican drummer who was one half of the legendary reggae rhythm section and production duo Sly & Robbie, has passed away. According to DancehallMag , Dunbar passed away this morning. Dunbar had reportedly been suffering from health issues
Earlier this month Portland power-pop musician Brenden Ramirez announced Never Turns To Night, his upcoming album as Bory. The full thing is out in March, and today Ramirez has shared the new single “Living Proof,” a fuzzy, hooky anthem about putting your own struggles into
A$AP Rocky is back at the top of the charts thanks to his latest album Don’t Be Dumb, and nobody is prouder than his ride or die Rihanna. The Harlem rapper’s long-awaited fourth LP, which arrived earlier this month following an eight-year wait, debuted at number one on the
In theaters July 17, the film features Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya, and Charlize Theron
Next weekend, Run For Cover Records is supposed to hold its revived Something In The Way festival at the Boston venue Roadrunner. If the entire East Coast is still buried under ice by then, I don’t know how this fest is going to work, but I guess Boston is better-prepared than
