This has been a pretty busy week in the hip hop/R&B/etc world, thanks to the great new Apollo Brown & Che Noir album and the great new Dinner Party (Terrace Martin, Robert Glasper, Kamasi Washington, 9th Wonder, Phoelix) album, both… Read More
No one is having much fun at all right now, and anything even remotely party-related feels taboo, but Allie X is doing her best to provide us with fond memories of less socially distanced activities. (Remember those?) After releasing another… Read More
Sacha Baron Cohen is clearly back in action. Not even a month after pranking an alt-right militia rally into doing a racist sing-along, with the lyrics "Obama, what we gonna do? / Inject him with the Wuhan flu / Hillary… Read More
Like Avril Lavigne, Carly Rae Jepsen and Canada’s Drag Race contestant Jimbo, Lights Poxleitner-Bokan – or Lights, for short – is Canadian excellence. Haven’t pensively stared out the window of a moving train on a chilly winter day while listening… Read More
The Rolling Stones are reissuing 1973's Goat's Head Soup, their follow-up to Exile on Main St. It's out September 4 in a wide variety formats, but the centerpiece of all of them is a new stereo mix of the album.… Read More
Eddy Lee Ryder’s new single, “Expected to Fly”, from the EP of the same name, is reminiscent of Stevie Nicks at her most dramatic and powerful. Like Kate Bush at the height of her powers, Ryder immerses in the world… Read More
Floor It!!!, the latest from the Texas Gentlemen, arrives 17 July via New West Records. The celebrated group deliver 13 songs on this new album, which was produced by Matt Pence (Jason Isbell, John Moreland, Midlake) and recorded at the… Read More
How is this Jayhawks’ release different than all other Jayhawks’ albums? All other Jayhawks’ records primarily featured the work of leader Gary Louris (or if one goes back far enough Louris and Mark Olson). XOXO features significant contributions from every… Read More
Why are 12-year-olds running around singing about bastards and whores? And grown people paying up to $2k for tickets to see men in wigs sing and dance? Why is Abraham Lincoln no longer the most popular US president? Is this… Read More
Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman and didgeridoo player Ondrej Smeykal have a new collaborative project, Black & Red, and the duo's debut single is "On the Day the Earth Went Mad," which may seem like it was written in response to… Read More