Bay City rapper That Mexican OT has been on a steady come-up for a couple of years, and he continues to work extremely hard. His Texas Technician mixtape was one of my favorite rap albums of last year. Since that came out, he’s continued to crank out a steady stream of collaborative bangers — songs like “1982” with Curren$y and …

Personally, I think it’s a bold move to have a self-titled single in addition to a self-titled album, let alone announcing both of them simultaneously. But, sometimes, audacity is a beautiful thing to behold. Such is the case for the seven-piece group from Ann Arbor, MI named Racing Mount Pleasant. Today, they’ve pulled off the trifecta, sharing “Racing Mount Pleasant” …

Lord Huron, the hugely popular LA project led by singer-songwriter Ben Schneider, are getting ready to head out on a massive tour where people like Feist and Waxahatchee will join them as openers. This year, they’ve released two singles, the Kristen Stewart collab “Who Laughs Last?” and the adult alternative radio hit “Nothing I Need.” You don’t get any bonus …

Bay Area legend E-40 has unleashed his latest single, “Beating They Ass,” via Heavy On The Grind Entertainment/Virgin Music. Produced by EJ Galloway, the track showcases E-40’s signature lyrical dexterity… The post E-40 Drops Hard-Hitting New Single “Beating They Ass” appeared first on .

Here’s something fun. Pearl Jam were on the actual Lollapalooza tour in 1992, but they were not on the “Homperpalooza” episode of The Simpsons. Peter Frampton was on the “Homerpalooza” episode of The Simpsons, but he was never on the actual Lollapalooza tour. But last night in Nashville, the unlikely team of Pearl Jam and Peter Frampton joined forces.

There he was: Britt Daniel, carrying his camera around Times Square. It was the fall of 2003, maybe 2004. I was a scrubby Midwestern undergrad visiting New York City for the CMJ Music Marathon, a sort of “SXSW in NYC” situation where buzz bands played umpteen times in venues around town. Spoon were not on the lineup, and setlist.fm does …

Denver’s Madeline Johnston gave us her latest Midwife album No Depression In Heaven last fall, and today she’s sharing a B-side that surely was not left off the tracklist for quality control reasons. “Signs” finds Midwife’s gauzy dream-state slowcore applied to the subject of grief. It’s about searching for glimpses of the people we’ve lost, trying to find whatever connection …

These days, LVL UP’s Dave Benton is plenty busy with his Trace Mountains solo project. Last year, Benton released Into The Burning Blue, the album that he recorded with Japanese Breakfast’s Craig Hendrix. Later this month, he’ll head out on a UK tour that includes a bunch of dates with MJ Lenderman. And right now, Benton has a new Trace …

Earlier this year, the German-South African artist WizTheMC and the producer Bees & Honey teamed up to release “Show Me Love,” a pop song that draws from the South African house genre known as amapiano. South African pop star, the biggest name ever to emerge from the world of amapiano, appeared on a “Show Me Love” remix, and the song …

The San Francisco punk band Culture Abuse broke up in 2020 for a very specific reason: Singer David Kelling was accused of sexual misconduct with an underage girl. Kelling’s former bandmates decided to keep going without him, which can’t have been an easy decision, and they started a new band called M.U.T.T. The group released their debut LP Bad To …