We already knew that the unruly country star Morgan Wallen was one of the most popular musicians in America, but this week’s charts show just how dominant he is. A week and a half ago, Wallen released I’m The Problem, an absolutely massive new 117-minute, 37-song album. The vinyl version has three LPs. Thanks to the resulting chart bomb, Wallen …

The descendents of Frida Kahlo revealed their plans to open a second museum for the artist in the same vicinity of the iconic Casa Azúl. The post A New Frida Kahlo Museum is Coming to Mexico City — Here’s What We Know  appeared first on Remezcla.

The thoughtful, insular North Carolina rapper MAVI released his debut album Let The Sun Talk in 2019. That same year, MAVI appeared on Earl Sweatshirt’s “El Toro Combo Meal,” a track from Earl’s Feet Of Clay EP. Last year, MAVI released his Shadowbox EP, and now he’s back with another single, his second collaboration with Earl Sweatshirt. It’s the first …

Country music loves horses. Not as an animal, but as metaphor. How many country stars actually rode a horse outside of a photoshoot? Porter Wagoner certainly couldn’t in his Nudie Suits. But the idea of a horse — an animal that symbolized the American west, Native American culture, and, above all, freedom — could be slapped onto any song.

Madrid’s Boneflower make frantic, intense post-hardcore, and they’ve earned a big co-sign from Touché Amoré frontman Jeremy Bolm, one of the great global boosters of frantic, intense post-hardcore. In 2023, Bolm curated and released the massive screamo compilation Balladeers, Redefined, and Boneflower contributed their convulsive track “Pyrrhic Victories.” Today, Boneflower announce plans to follow their 2018 album Armour with a …

When a band’s two members are both siblings, can that band never truly break up? The Fiery Furnaces, the twisty and inventive duo of Emily and Matthew Friedberger, have never broken up, but they’ve had a few extended periods of inactivity. As of right now, the Fiery Furnaces haven’t come out with a proper album since 2009’s Take Me Round …

Grizzly Bear’s last studio album was 2017’s Painted Ruins. Since the tour in support of that LP, the Brooklyn indie legends have been on hiatus; frontman Ed Droste left the music world to start a therapy practice, while his former bandmates continued to occasionally work together on non-Grizzly projects. Though Grizzly Bear maintained that they never officially broke up, it sure seemed like …

Dylan Hadley and Cole Berliner used to make wacky art-pop together under the moniker Kamikaze Palm Tree. Recently, the duo started a new project called Sharpie Smile, and announced that their debut album The Staircase would be arriving in June. Exactly one month before that release date, Sharpie Smile have shared the album’s title track today.

Zak Starkey is the son of Ringo Starr, probably the most famous career drummer in history. Presumably then, Starkey doesn’t need a job, but he’s had tons of jobs over the decades. Starkey has played with groups like Oasis, Johnny Marr’s Healers, and his father’s All-Starr Band. Since 1996, Starkey has also played drums for the Beatles’ contemporaries the Who …

Planning For Burial, the one-man experimental project from Wilkes-Barre musician Thom Wasluck, has been going for 20 years now. Last year, Wasluck spearheaded the release of the Flenser’s Low tribute album Your Voice Is Not Enough, and he contributed his own cover of the Low song “Murderer.” Now, Wasluck is getting ready to release It’s Closeness, It’s Easy, the first …