Yesterday, Amazon Web Services announced Intersect Music Festival, which takes place in Las Vegas from December 6-7. The lineup includes Foo Fighters, Beck, Kacey Musgraves, Anderson .Paak, and many more. The Black Madonna is also featured on the lineup, and today, she’s expressed outrage over Amazon’s involvement in the event. She wrote that Amazon was
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Improbably recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, Music City U.S.A. for the county genere, AV Super Sunshine’s “Candyland” isn’t a hayseed farmer’s lament or paint by number love song ready for sale at your nearest Wal-Mart. The new single from the pride of Wisconsin’s rambunctious imagination is an energetic and inspired take on kicking medication he once
For the past month, Kanye West has been holding one-off screenings for his forthcoming IMAX film Jesus Is King. Now, he’s released a brief trailer for the film, which will see a limited theatrical release at select IMAX theaters around the United States on October 25. The trailer is soundtracked by a gospel rendition of
Beck has released “Hyperlife” and “Uneventful Days,” two new songs from his forthcoming LP Hyperspace. The album is due out November 22 via Capitol. Listen to both songs below. Earlier this year, Beck promised the new album with the release of a Pharrell-assisted new single called “Saw Lightning.” Find physical editions of Hyperspace at Rough
Arca has announced that her music will soundtrack the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. A composition she wrote using the Bronze AI engine will play for two years once the museum reopens on October 21 after four months of renovations. The Bronze format allows artists to make what is described
In a new interview with British GQ, Elton John shared some choice words about this year’s remake of The Lion King, which starred Beyoncé, Donald Glover, and more. “The new version of The Lion King was a huge disappointment to me, because I believe they messed the music up,” he said. After providing songs for
In one of the most high profile performances in its history, NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series welcomed Taylor Swift to the NPR offices for its latest instalment. Before heading out on a 2020 world tour, she sat behind the desk to perform, mostly acoustic, songs from her new album Lover. Of the album, she says
Earlier this year, Mute Records announced that they had partnered with Throbbing Gristle to bring the band’s discography to streaming services for the first time. The label also revealed that they planned to make “long out of print and important pieces of work” from the band publicly available, both physically and digitally, for the first
Producer Justin Raisen has accused Lizzo of plagiarism, as The Guardian notes. On Instagram, Raisen claimed that he, Lizzo, songwriter Jesse Saint John, and producer/songwriter Yves Rothman wrote the line, “I just took a DNA test, turns out I’m 100 percent that bitch,” for a demo called “Healthy.” The same lyric is featured on Lizzo’s
The influential slowcore band Duster have announced their first new album in 19 years. The self-titled LP spans 12 tracks and arrives December 13 via Muddguts. Check out the cover art, which features a painting by Salvatore Olentino, below. Earlier this year, Duster shared the new song “Interstellar Tunnel” (which will not appear on the
Katy Perry, Lukasz “Dr. Luke” Gottwald, Capitol Records, and others are appealing a recent ruling that Perry’s “Dark Horse” plagiarizes a Christian rap single from 2009, Variety reports and Pitchfork can confirm. In the appeal over the lawsuit focusing on rapper Flame’s 2009 single “Joyful Noise,” Perry and the rest asked the court to overturn
In a new interview with GQ’s Will Welch, Pharrell has denounced “Blurred Lines,” the 2013 Robin Thicke song that he co-wrote and featured on. “I didn’t get it at first,” he said. “Because there were older white women who, when that song came on, they would behave in some of the most surprising ways ever.
TNGHT recently stopped by BBC Radio 1 to share their new Essential Mix. The electronic music duo of Hudson Mohawke and Lunice played unreleased tracks in addition to music from Rustie, JPEGMAFIA, Scratcha DVA, J-E-T-S, Girl Unit, and more. Check it out here. Last month, TNGHT released “Serpent,” their first new song in six years
Queen Latifah will be honored by Harvard University for her contributions to black history and culture, the Associated Press reports. Latifah is one of seven honorees who will receive the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal on October 22. Other recipients include poet and educator Elizabeth Alexander, artist Kerry James Marshall, and more. The medal is named
Camila Cabello was the musical guest on last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live. She played “Cry for Me” and “Easy,” performing the former in elaborate rococo dress and the latter in a more modern white dress. Check it out below. Camila Cabello’s last studio album was 2018’s Camila. More recently Cabello shared singles “Señorita”
Chance the Rapper will host and perform on Saturday Night Live October 26, joining the ranks of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Woody Harrelson, and Stranger Things’ David Harbour as hosts for the show’s 45th season. Chance released his most recent album, The Big Day, in July. He released a new video for his song “We Go High”
On Thursday, October 10, Zedd tweeted out that he had been “permanently banned” from China for liking a South Park tweet celebrating the 300th episode of the long-running Comedy Central series. While it’s unclear whether this means that his music is banned from Chinese airplay or if the producer/DJ himself is banned from traveling to
Several artists scheduled to perform at this weekend’s Rolling Loud music festival at New York City’s Citi Field have been removed from the lineup after the New York City Police Department sent a letter to festival organizers requesting their removal, as The New York Times’ Joe Coscarelli reports. Casanova, Pop Smoke, Sheff G, Don Q,