ENOC is an album that means a lot to me, as it is a reflection of the musical essence that marked the beginning of my career; but also includes what I have learned in my career as I’ve been able to travel the world with my previous albums Odisea, Aura, and Nibiru…. My team and
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Where is the music world going? Who will emerge as the next generation of top flight performers and bands? What will come into fashion and then fall out again? These are the sorts of questions serious music heads often ponder and sometimes the answers are far from clear. One thing I am certain of, however,
Washing over me pulling me I wait for the click in my head longing for things to make sense… a time will come… when? Everything on hold, I waited, don’t know for what… should I pull or push? Locked in, locked out, locked down, knocked down…. A police man sat on a man’s neck until
Thelonious Monk’s Palo Alto, the first-ever release of a recording made at Palo Alto High School on October 27, 1968, was postponed earlier this year. Originally scheduled to be released by Impulse! Records on July 31, its release was pulled due to circumstances outside the label’s control, an Impulse! representative told Pitchfork at the time.
DJ Khaled and Drake have shared a new music video for their joint single “POPSTAR.” The clip starts with DJKhaled harassing Drake to make a music video for the track via multiple shouty video messages. Fed up, Drake calls in a favor from Justin Bieber to star in the visual for him. Watch the clip
Perfume Genius has announced a live virtual performance from the Palace Theater in downtown Los Angeles. The concert will take place on Saturday, September 19, kicking off at 3 p.m. Eastern. The stream will be available for viewing through Sunday, September 20 at 3 a.m. Eastern. Tickets are available in advance here for $15 ($20
The rhyme, the look, the beat, the poetry, the intensity, the artistry, the creativity, rapper Nate Soundz has got it all. Almost from out of an abyss, he’s arrived on the scene in full effervescence and dazzle, owning his unique and edgy soliloquy. Already a sparkling producer, Nate Soundz has a soundcloud repertoire including tracks
More than everI find myselfFighting dreadWith the dead… We chose “Franklin’s Tower” for its opening line, one of my favorite opening lines of all time:“In another time’s forgotten spaceYour eyes looked through your mother’s face” This is the gift of the Dead, The paradox of personal universality… Wisdom found at the end of a maze,
Teyana Taylor has shared a new music video for her single “Still.” The self-directed visual includes archival footage and stills from the ongoing protests over racial injustice and police brutality, as well as speeches by Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., and video and audio clips of police brutality. Throughout the clip, Taylor dresses
Categorizing an artist like HeIsTheArtist isn’t easy when trying to use the standard labeling that applies to most performers in 2020. When listening to his new EP, Adam & Eve, there’s a general sense of continuity to the music we hear in tracks like “Boom – The Explosion,” “Sometimes / I Want You Around” and “Boom
During that time, I’d also been following Amanda Kloots as she documented her husband Nick Cordero’s time in the ICU while in a coma after being admitted for COVID-19. Imagining her sitting by his side, waiting, hopeful for him to wake up, it got me thinking about all the millions of people, all over the
Hot Chip will contribute a mix to the Late Night Tales series. The 19-track mix arrives October 2, and includes four exclusive songs from Hot Chip, as well as mixed tracks by Fever Ray, Nils Frahm, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, and more. Today, Hot Chip have shared one of their cuts: a cover of the Velvet
In March, Paradigm Talent Agency laid off hundreds of staffers due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The laid-off employees reportedly received no severance and only one month of health care and benefits. Now, according to a new report by Billboard, several former Paradigm employees have launched their own talent agency called TBA. According to Billboard,
A new television show is in the works based on two memoirs by Viv Albertine—author, musician, and former member of the Slits. As The Hollywood Reporter points out, the series will be based on Albertine’s 2014 memoir Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys., as well as her 2018 book, To Throw Away
Public Enemy have announced the tracklist for new album What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down, and it’s an old-school extravaganza. The outfit’s first album for Def Jam in more than 20 years features Beastie Boys’ Mike D and Ad-Rock, Cypress Hill, Run-DMC, Ice-T, Nas, YG, DJ Premier, George Clinton, the Roots’ Black Thought and
It was revealed earlier this month that Mark Mothersbaugh, Devo co-founder and composer of numerous films and TV shows, had tested positive for COVID-19 in early June. He opened up about being hospitalized, the hallucinatory symptoms he experienced, and nearly dying in a new interview with The Los Angeles Times’ Randall Roberts published today (August
BTS are officially the first all–South Korean group ever to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, as Billboard reports. The K-pop band’s “Dynamite” debuted atop the chart with 33.9 million U.S. streams and 300,000 sold in its first week, according to Billboard via Nielsen Music/MRC Data. In addition, Billboard reports that
Mike Noga, the singer-songwriter who drummed with the Australian group the Drones before forging a solo career, has died. Noga’s sister shared the news in a Facebook post Wednesday night (August 26), but did not give a cause of death. Read her post below. The Drones rose to fame in Perth in the mid-2000s, before