John Dwyer has been making music with some form of the name Oh Sees since 1997, beginning with Orinoka Crash Suite that became OCS, then The Ohsees, Thee Oh Sees, Oh Sees, and most recently, Osees. He's had an equally… Read More
In addition to their individual, 3.75" vinyl Pop figures (some of which happen to be music-related), Funko also make figures based on the cover art of iconic albums. They unveiled one based on Black Sabbath's self-titled debut in October, and… Read More
Ambient icon and composer Harold Budd has reportedly died at age 84. His friend John Emr wrote on Facebook, "My friend Harold Budd has passed beyond;" another friend, Shane Cadman, wrote "My friend Harold Budd passed away last night. I… Read More
Less than a month after being banned from Facebook, reportedly for posting about far-right group the Proud Boys, Trapt have now had their Twitter account suspended, too. The move comes after frontman Chris Taylor Brown, who is notoriously outspoken as… Read More
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Madonna (@madonna) Madonna, Queen of Pop™, is far from like a virgin – but there are still at least a few things she hasn’t tried yet. Or hadn’t, anyway. As of… Read More
It’s Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu – otherwise known as INNA – to the rescue, yet again. The 34-year-old Romanian Queen of Pop™ spent the duration of 2020 keeping the pandemic off our brains with myriad pop bops and EDM bangers, including… Read More
This week in hip hop, we got the very good new Rico Nasty and Your Old Droog albums that I wrote about in Notable Releases, plus the Drakeo The Ruler mixtape, the Yung Baby Tate EP, and new singles from… Read More
Twenty-Twenty is finally (suddenly?) wrapping up and new releases are slowing to a trickle. That said, we've still got six this week: Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins) and Richie Thomas (Dif Juz) work with John Grant, Porridge Radio, Penelope Isles and… Read More
Excerpted from Cyber Republic: Reinventing Democracy in the Age of Intelligent Machines, by George Zarkadakis (footnotes omitted). Copyright © MIT Press, 2020. Distributed by The MIT Press. Excerpted by permission of MIT Press. All rights reserved. No part of this… Read More
Singer-songwriter Coco Reilly’s self-titled debut album sounds like it was recorded behind a layer of gauze. It’s as if one were listening to the record from the room next door. Her vocals are muffled. She purposely blends the arrangements in… Read More