Laura Jane Grace—the singer and songwriter who fronts the bands Against Me! and the Devouring Mothers—has just surprise released a new album called Stay Alive. It’s out now via Polyvinyl. Listen to it below. The album was made this year during the COVID-19 pandemic as Against Me! came home from a tour. It was recorded
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Girl, you gonna find out, singer/songwriter Maurice sings in his debut single “The Wall”. It’s late. The night is still young and Maurice takes a detour to his house after a date. His voice carries the weight, the underlying music emphasizes his impassioned desires. “The Wall” is about taking things to the next leavy, getting
Jimmy Edgar (producer and one half of J-E-T-S) has shared two new singles. One of the songs is called “METAL” and it features SOPHIE. The other, “GET UP,” features Danny Brown. Listen to Jimmy Edgar’s tracks below. “SOPHIE and I met at Fabric in London in the 2010s and since then we have performed live
Real versus fantasy? Looking past the outer shell, underneath the armor to discover the man within? What is the deeper meaning of “I, Don Quixote”? One man on a mission to interpret the legendary Broadway song is Houston’s Ricky Comeaux. His new album, If I Ruled The World features this piece from Man of La
My mother passed away almost six years ago and ever since, my life has felt folded in half, divided into a before and after her death, my identity and my family having been fractured in the wake of her loss. I’ve spent the past six years processing grief in the best way I knew how-through
The Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, which annually takes place in Manchester, Tennessee, has been rescheduled for the third time. The festival was initially postponed from June to September of this year. It was then announced that the 2020 festival had been called off entirely, and instead, Bonnaroo would return in June 2021. Now, it’s
Buffalo rapper Westside Gunn has detailed his latest album in 2020. This one’s called Who Made the Sunshine, and it’s out this Friday (October 2) via Griselda/Shady/Roc Nation. It features Slick Rick, Black Thought, Busta Rhymes, Conway the Machine, Benny the Butcher, Armani Caesar, Boldy James, and more. Just Blaze and Alchemist are among the
Peering out from behind a blanket of silence with a glimmer of melodic ribbonry, “Giants” slowly finds a route out of the darkness and into the light, eventually filling the air around us with an aural richness I simply wasn’t prepared to hear when I first sat down with Twin Flames’ Omen this past weekend. Strikingly different
California-based synth-pop band Chaos Chaos have announced “Support Black Womxn,” a virtual concert and comedy livestream that is set to take place on Wednesday, September 30, beginning at 7 p.m. Eastern on the Dash Radio Twitch channel. Featured performers include Reggie Watts, Fred Armisen, Gavin Turek, Zuri Marley, Cautious Clay, Lonnie Holley, and Paul Scheer.
Omar Apollo has shared a new song called “Dos Uno Nueve,” and ode to his hometown 219 area code in Indiana. Check out the modern-day Mexican corrido below. “Dos Uno Nueve” is the fourth song Omar Apollo has released this year, following “Kamikaze,” “Stayback,” and “Imagine U.” He released his debut Stereo EP in 2018.
Deerhoof have released Love-Lore, a 35-minute, 43-song, live-in-the-studio covers medley album. The record is available now digitally, for free, via Joyful Noise. Check it out below. Deerhoof recorded Love-Lore one afternoon at Rivington Rehearsal Studios on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The band had debuted the piece the previous night at the 2019 Time:Spans
Women released two great albums—2008’s Women and 2010’s Public Strain—before the band ended in 2012 following the death of guitarist/vocalist Chris Reimer. In the years since, members of the band have gone on to make music with Preoccupations (formerly Viet Cong) and as Cindy Lee. Jagjaguwar and Flemish Eye have now announced a reissue of Public
In a ruling issued just a few hours before a midnight deadline on Sunday night (September 27), a federal judge has blocked a ban on new downloads of TikTok. According to the Washington Post, U.S. District Judge Carl J. Nichols issued an injunction on the grounds that the company hasn’t had sufficient time to defend
This week, Mariah Carey has a new memoir coming out called The Making of Mariah Carey. The memoir features the revelation that she “did an alternative album” while she was working on her 1995 album Daydream (which features “Fantasy” and “Always Be My Baby”). She tweeted an excerpt of the memoir, which discusses her work
Polo G has released a new song called “Epidemic.” Check out the new Ryan Lynch-directed music video for the track below. It’s the first new solo music from the Chicago artist since the release of his most recent studio album The Goat this past May, following his 2019 debut album Die a Legend. Earlier this
Beloved Indian singer SP Balasubrahmanyam has died, BBC News and CNN report. He had been hospitalized for COVID-19 in August. According to the reports, he died of cardio-respiratory arrest. Balasubrahmanyam was 74 years old. Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam was renowned for his work as a playback singer, which means he actually sang the songs that film
When SZA announced her breakout album Ctrl in 2017, the first single she revealed from the album was “Drew Barrymore.” Later that same year, she released the official music video for the song, which featured a brief cameo from the actor. Now, SZA and Barrymore are set to reunite again on October 1, when the
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