I just feel that Jamaican culture and music are at its peak. It's been so influential for years and decades. With the type of artists that I sign — Lila [Iké] and Sevana — they're both very driven in the… Read More
Medium Rarities is Mastodon’s first odds and ends compilation. With a career spanning two decades, it seems the band would have a lot of interesting extraneous material available for this sort of release, but it turns out there really isn’t… Read More
When the world learned that President Trump had tested positive for COVID-19 in the early hours of Friday morning, his supporters reacted with dismay. The reactions of his opponents, however, were more complicated. It seemed wrong to wish this plague… Read More
The East Village's Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens are hosting the LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival this weekend: It’s 2020 and we are all stuck inside somewhere. We are living in the Human Zoo. This year’s festival is dedicated expressing our situation… Read More
This week in hip hop, we got new albums from Westside Gunn (read our review), YG, 21 Savage & Metro Boomin, Smoke DZA, Flee Lord, Alchemist, Sa-Roc, and more, plus new singles from Megan Thee Stallion, Jorja Smith/Popcaan, Small Bills,… Read More
"Due to overwhelming demand," Touch and Go Records and sublabel Quarterstick Records have both joined Bandcamp. The news comes, by no accident, on this month's Bandcamp Friday fundraiser where the digital music service waives its cut of profits on downloads and merch.… Read More
Anti-Flag started this year off with the depressingly prophetic 20/20 Vision, and now — ten months later — after a global pandemic cancelled their tour (and everyone else's) and the US took to the streets to protest against police brutality… Read More
As mentioned, a bunch of incredible artists have come together to contribute "never-before-heard new songs, covers, remixes, live versions, and unreleased demos" to Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Volume 2 (the sequel to the September edition,… Read More
There’s something about deep, bass-heavy, musical thwack. It doesn’t matter how much one knows about house and all its micro-shoots, or whether they can speak to 1990s-era hip-hop producers such as Pete Rock or Easy Mo- Bee, sample-based geniuses who… Read More
Comedian Hannibal Buress recently wrapped up a midwest drive-in tour with Open Mike Eagle, and he's keeping the live appearances in our new normal coming with another show announcement, this time with the great Thundercat, joining him. (They're old friends.) They're headed… Read More