Moonlight director Barry Jenkins has chopped and screwed Wilco’s breakthrough 2002 LP Yankee Hotel Foxtrot with the help of Houston’s Chopstars. Jenkins shared the project on Twitter, noting the “#YeehawAgenda is alive and well.” Check it out below. Jenkins has previously chopped and screwed the soundtracks to Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk, as
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Hi Nicki! Thank you for taking the time to chat with us! Great to be here. Thanks so much for having me! What do you believe needs a makeover in the music world? Well, that’s a long list so let me give you my top three. For starters, there’s a stigma associated with being an Independent
Queens of the Stone Age are going to broadcast unreleased concert footage this Friday, November 13, to benefit the Nick Alexander Memorial Trust and Life for Paris. The footage comes from the band’s 2018 show at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania, Australia. Below, find QOTSA’s announcement and watch their MONA
Drakeo the Ruler was released from prison on Wednesday, and tonight, he shared his first new song and video since his release. “Fights Don’t Matter” is set to appear on his upcoming project We Know the Truth. According to Jeff Weiss, the song was recorded “three hours after leaving the Compton Courthouse—from scrawled lyrics written
Lil Nas X has announced the release of a new song called “Holiday”—out this Friday (November 13)—in an absurd and spectacular way. During tonight’s game between the New Orleans Saints and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a commercial aired that features the “Old Town Road” rapper becoming Santa Claus via the Tim Allen Santa Clause contract.
T. Rex were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame during tonight’s ceremony, which aired on HBO. Ringo Starr inducted the band, honoring the late Marc Bolan in his speech. “People knew him as a great musician, a songwriter, a guitarist, but he was also a poet, and he was very proud of
Mariah Carey, who threw the first bauble at Stonewall, with Santa (James Devaney/WireImage) Mariah Carey, queen of Christmas, has revealed that some of her all-time favourite festive memories were down to her gay uncles. In her memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, the singer explained that Christmases at her family home in Huntington, New York, were quite
Foo Fighters were the musical guests on tonight’s Dave Chappelle-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live. Their performance marked the debut of their new song “Shame Shame,” which they officially released as the episode aired. The song will appear on their just-announced album Medicine at Midnight, which is out February 5, 2021 on Roswell Records/RCA. Listen
Whitney Houston is one of one. There is no one like her, and there never will be. I remember growing up listening to her music and dancing around the house and jumping on my bed singing her songs into my hairbrush. This golden voice with range and runs and power like none and a face
EDM fans will have something extra nice on their list to Santa this year – the exuberant and zippy “Christmas Festa” from Franchesco De Rosa is like pure joy bottled in a snow globe. Shake this one up, watch it explode and join in on the corduroy sounds meshed with twinkling rays. “Christmas Festa” is
Daniel Lopatin made an appearance on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform his recent Oneohtrix Point Never song “I Don’t Love Me Anymore”. He was backed by previous live show collaborators Eli Keszler on drums and Nate Boyce on guitar for the remote performance; check it out below. Lopatin released Magic Oneohtrix Point
2 Chainz has shared a new single, “Quarantine Thick,” featuring fellow Atlanta rapper Mulatto. Check out the accompanying music video, directed by Bryan Barber, below. “Quarantine Thick” will appear on 2 Chainz’s next album So Help Me God. The record had been set to arrive on September 25, but will now come out next Friday,
In his latest releases – an album titled Sight Unseen and an EP in Ella – the artist known simply as Electric E is making it clear to anyone listening that he isn’t planning on stepping away from his boundary-breaking experimentations anytime soon – if anything, he’s going after this goals harder than ever here. Combining influences that
Chicago-born, Atlanta-based rapper King Von has died after he was shot outside an Atlanta nightclub early this morning (November 6), according to a spokesperson for the Atlanta Police Department. King Von was 26 years old. According to the spokesperson, the shooting involved two groups of men and two off-duty police officers. Three people have died
CHAI have released a new cover of Mariya Takeuchi’s “Plastic Love.” It follows the Japanese quartet’s recent single “Donuts Mind If I Do,” their first release for new record label Sub Pop. (The 7″ release for that song, out today, features “Plastic Love” as a B-side.) Listen to CHAI’s take on Takeuchi’s city pop classic below.
James Blake appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Thursday night (November 5), covering Frank Ocean’s “Godspeed” solo on a piano outdoors. Watch it below. Blake released the new four-song EP Before in mid-October, which followed two new songs that he’s shared since the spring: “You’re Too Precious” and “Are You Even Real.” He
In February 2019, Florida rappers YNW Melly (real name: Jamell Demons) and YNW Bortlen (real name: Cortlen Henry) were arrested for the murder of aspiring rappers Anthony “YNW Sakchaser” Williams and Christopher “YNW Juvy” Thomas Jr. Now, almost two years after Melly’s incarceration, the rapper is being sued by the estates of Thomas and Willaims,
AV Super Sunshine is a performer, singer, and songwriter with his own style. You can go back over his past recordings and find echoes of other artists but Sunshine filters any and all influences through an individual consciousness. There is immense style in his presentation too. Longtime producer and fellow musician Michael Bradford, known for