Launched with fanfare in 2021, the Roc Nation School of Music, Sports & Entertainment at Long Island University (LIU) promised students an innovative and debt-free college experience. Formed through a… The post Jay-Z’s Roc Nation School At LIU Leaves At Least A Dozen Students In Debt After Being Promised Debt-Free Graduation appeared first on .

One of the most underrated albums of 2024 was Porches’ idiosyncratic “hypergrunge” opus Shirt, and he’s back today with an expanded version called Shirt Expansion Pack to remind us. It comes with two new tracks, one of which is the title track, which is a very interesting method.

How do you stop someone from rising through the ceiling? This is the first line of Ribbon Skirt’s “Deadhorse,” the opening to their debut album Bite Down. It only gets more visceral and surreal from there: There’s someone kicking through window panes. There’s piss in a cup. There’s someone fucking up their whole life on a Wednesday. There’s a midnight …

While most of New York was still rubbing the sleep from their eyes, the Brooklyn Paramount was wide awake and glowing with pastel drip and high vibrations. On Saturday, April 5, The 9AM… The post RECAP: The 9AM Banger Brings R&B Euphoria to Brooklyn Paramount with Surprise Ne-Yo Performance appeared first on .

Last month Singaporean art-pop artist yeule announced Evangelic Girl Is A Gun, the follow-up to their excellent 2023 album Softscars. So far they’ve shared lead single “eko” and the Clams Casino/Fitnesss joint “Skullcrusher,” and today we get the album’s title track.

Hoover, one of the more intense post-hardcore bands on Dischord roster, broke up in 1994, and singer-guitarist Alex Dunham went on to start a new band, a driving and mathy power trio called Regulator Watts. That group got started in 1996, and they didn’t last long. Regulator Watts only released one full-length album, 1997’s The Aesthetics Of No-Drag, before breaking …

Despite having an extremely SEO-unfriendly band name, UK punks University made a splash with their 2023 debut EP Title Track. (That title isn’t the easiest thing to Google, either.) Now, University have signed to Transgressive, and they’re getting ready to release their full-length debut McCartney, It’ll Be OK. The band recorded the album with producer Kwes Darko at Damon Albarn’s …

These days, a whole lot of American bands have their own takes on shoegaze, and Oakland’s Softie are among their number. Softie’s version of the genre is loose and hazy, with some of the shrugging sprawl of Pavement mixed in with all the dreamy melodies and effects-pedal overdrive. Softie released their debut EP Strong Hold in 2021, and they’ve come …

This is a heavy one. Last year, Nell Smith, a prodigious young Canadian musician who’d collaborated with the Flaming Lips, died in a car accident. She was just 17. Singer-songwriter Ben Kweller knows about that kind of tragedy. In 2023, a car accident also took the life of Kweller’s 16-year-old son Dorian. Next month, on what would’ve been Dorian’s 19th …

At least 27 people died after a nightclub roof collapsed during a concert in the Dominican capital city of Santo Domingo early this morning. The BBC reports that the roof of the Jet Set, a Santo Domingo venue, suddenly collapsed for unknown reasons, injuring 150 people. One of those injured is Rubby Pérez, the veteran Dominican merengue singer who was …