Benny the Butcher's Black Soprano Family have announced a new project, Long Live DJ Shay, due September 9 (pre-order). In addition to Benny and his BSF group/labelmates Rick Hyde and Heem, it also features Benny's Griselda labelmates Westside Gunn, Conway…
Spike Lee pretty regularly throws block parties on the block his 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks HQ is located on in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and this Saturday (8/6) he's having a stoop sale. Will he be selling that electric mixer…
Carly Rae Jepsen announced her new album, The Loneliest Time, earlier this week, and now she's shared another new single from it, "Beach House." Alex Hope produced the summery anthem, which was co-written by Jepsen, Hope, and Nate Cyphert, and…
Earlier this year, Mike Kinsella and his cousin/American Football bandmate Nate Kinsella launched their new band Lies with two new songs, and now they've released a third, "Summer Somewhere." It's a pulsating, synthy art pop song, and Mike Kinsella's unmistakable…
Denver crust/deathgrinders Vermin Womb (who are fronted by Primitive Man's Ethan McCarthy and also feature members of Ethan's former band Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire) have announced their sophomore album, Retaliation, following 2016's Decline. It was recorded…
yeule released their great new album, Glitch Princess, back in February, and they just wrapped up a short US tour supporting it, which included a set at Pitchfork Festival and a pair of NYC shows at Bowery Ballroom and National…
The 1975 have shared the second single off their anticipated fifth album being funny in a foreign language, and this one's called "Happiness." Here's what Matty Healy tells Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 about the new song, and about…
Bonny Light Horseman, the trio of Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D Johnson and Josh Kaufman, will release their second album, Rolling Golden Holy, on October 7 (preorder on galaxy blue vinyl), and they've shared another song from it, the lovely, harmonious…
Toronto's Tallies have been honing their shimmering brand of dreampop for the last five years, drawing from a very specific place and time – I put it at England from 1987 to 1991 – when 4AD and Creation were the among the coolest labels around,…
Toronto group Ducks Ltd are back with the second installment of their The Sincerest Form of Flattery covers series, taking on The Cure's classic 1985 single "In Between Days" as a collaboration with Jane Inc (aka Carlyn Bezic). They keep…
Joe Walsh is reuniting his '60s/'70s band The James Gang for his annual VetsAid benefit concert that happens November 13 at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, OH. The Cleveland band, known for such songs as "Funk #49" and "Walk Away," will…
Arcade Fire made a grand return to Canada this weekend, headlining Osheaga Festival in Montreal (where they replaced Foo Fighters) for their first Canadian show since 2018. During the Friday night (7/29) show, they covered Wolf Parade's "This Heart's On…
“Uncle Jonny made my dress…” During the dance break of the extended mix of B’Day‘s “Get Me Bodied,” released as the album’s fifth single in the summer of ’07, there’s a moment where Beyoncé begins rattling off a minutes-long string…
TONIGHT IN NYC: Coheed and Cambria, Alkaline Trio, MOTHICA @ Forest Hills Stadium globalFEST w/ Combo Chimbita, DakhaBrakha, Heart of Afghanistan, Amythyst Kiah, Rare Essene, Amal Murkus & The Firas Zreik Quintent @ Lincoln Center Florist, Marc Merza @ Bowery…
FRIDAY, JULY 29 TONIGHT IN NYC: Andrew Bird, Iron and Wine, Meshell Ndegeocello @ The Rooftop at Pier 17 The Beths, SASAMI, Charlotte Cornfield @ BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival Nada Surf, Hurry @ Asbury Lanes yeule @ National Sawdust Christian…
Happy Mondays' bassist Paul Ryder died earlier this month, and in tribute, the band are reissuing their 1987 single "Tart Tart" as a new digital EP and 7" single. “This special release of 'Tart Tart' showcases the unique musical talent of…
Tulsa, OK's Bob Dylan Center and NYC venue The Town Hall are putting on a Bob Dylan tribute show, to celebrate the anniversary of his 1963 debut at the venue. It happens on September 30 at Town Hall, and the…
Many Bruce Springsteen fans have been up in arms over the ticket prices for his and The E Street Band's 2023 tour, which, thanks to Ticketmaster's "dynamic pricing" system, has premium seats selling for $1000 – $5000. Earlier this week,…
Pre-order the new Callous Daboys album on swirl vinyl. When I walked into Knitting Factory Brooklyn this past June to see The Callous Daoboys opening up for LIMBS and Greyhaven, they had squeezed eight people onto the venue's relatively small…
Jess Williamson and Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield have announced a new collaborative project, called Plains, and an album, I Walked With You A Ways is due out October 14 via ANTI-. It was written across the country, recorded in Durham, NC,…
TONIGHT IN NYC: Phish @ Jones Beach Courtney Barnett, Bloomsday @ Adelphi University Performing Arts Center Gibby Haynes with The Paul Green Rock Academy @ Le Poisson Rouge Sylvan Esso (DJ set), GRRL (DJ set), Made of Oak (DJ set)…
