School’s back in session (virtually, this year), and the legendary Ms. Toni Braxton is giving us all a crucial spelling lesson – but more on that a little later. Following 2018’s stellar Sex & Cigarettes, the deep-voiced diva (or, as… Read More
New Zealand's Spook the Horses have opened for both Neurosis and The Ocean, and they're signed to The Ocean-affiliated Pelagic Records, and if you like those bands but haven't heard Spook The Horses, you're probably gonna wanna change that. Having… Read More
t.A.T.u. is back. Sort of. The game-changing, faux-lesbian-turned-one-half-homophobic “All the Things She Said” Russian troupe released their third English studio album Waste Management at the end of 2009 (the English counterpart to Весёлые Улыбки), which went generally unheard outside of… Read More
In December 1976, Melba Moore made history at the Metropolitan Opera House. An Evening with Melba Moore at the Met marked the first time a Black pop artist headlined a one-woman show at one of New York’s most prestigious venues,… Read More
Daniel Rodriguez knows loss, and perhaps more intimately than many of us. Running parallel to Elephant Revival’s breakup was the end of a 14-year romantic relationship. These two significant misfortunes left Rodriguez seemingly lost. However, he turned a new leaf… Read More
While the COVID-19 pandemic put plans for their third album on hold, Brooklyn-based psychedelic dream-pop/jazz/soul sextet GADADU saw it as an opportunity to revisit an old song and reconstruct it remotely. The result is “dosaardvark”, their new single, which premieres… Read More
With the pandemic still resulting in several coronavirus cases and with the potential of reinfection, concerts as we know them are still nonexistent (and may not return until 2022), but in the meantime, some venues have experimented with socially distant… Read More
A little over 15 months after music critic Jon Landau declared, “I have seen the future of rock and roll and his name is Bruce Springsteen”, the promise and burden contained in that declaration were manifested in the release of… Read More
“Are you that somebody? Are you?” Agnes doesn’t necessarily come around all that often, but whenever she does, she never gets it wrong. Ever. In fact, the “Release Me” Swedish Idol – literally, she won the second season of Sweden’s… Read More
Rising Nigerian Afro-pop artist Fireboy DML has followed his acclaimed 2019 debut album Laughter, Tears & Goosebumps with his anticipated sophomore album, APOLLO. Guest appearances come from fellow Nigerian artists Olamide and Inglewood, CA rapper D Smoke, and it’s a… Read More