Isaiah Rashad is back among us. It’s been nearly five years since the elusive Chattanooga rap great released The House Is Burning, his most recent album. It’s been about four years since Rashad was the victim of a terrible invasion of privacy when a sex tape leaked. Earlier this week, Rashad announced a new album… The post Isaiah Rashad – …

Brooklyn-based guitarist Ava Mendoza is always getting up to something interesting. Last year we highlighted her work with Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet and Mama Killa, a wild record she made with gabby fluke-mogul and Carolina Pérez. Today comes news of Alive Alone, Alive Together, a new Mendoza album that features legendary jazz drummer Hamid Drake… The post Ava Mendoza Announces …

UK pop queen Lily Allen roared back into the headlines with the release of last year’s messy, brilliant breakup album West End Girl, and she’s on a big North American tour right now. She’s doing great! But performing at Radio City Music Hall is hard work, and it’s probably a lot easier to make a few hundred bucks by sending …

Willow Avalon snagged none other than Jason Isbell for her new duet. “Cardinal Sin,” from the Georgia-born country singer’s forthcoming Pink Pocket Pistol, is about a marriage falling apart due to infidelity. They sought a ’60s country feel for the album, and in pursuit of that vision here they deployed a string section and an… The post Willow Avalon – …

Faces Of Death looks like a fucked-up movie. The new horror flick is an adaptation of an old cult series of videos that were widely suspected to be actual snuff films in the ’80s. It opens in theaters today, and it’s director Daniel Goldhaber’s follow-up to the fucking awesome 2022 movie How To Blow Up A Pipeline. Former Euphoria star …

Kurage, the new EP from Artist To Watch Mei Semones, comprises three collaborations. We heard her join forces with Liana Flores on “Koneko” and John Roseboro on “Tooth Fairy.” With the project’s full release today, we’re privy to the song she made with her dad. Don Semones is the featured guest on “Kurage,” the new… The post Mei Semones & …

Gucci Mane is addressing controversy head-on with his latest track “Crash Dummy,” where he appears to respond to ongoing allegations surrounding Pooh Shiesty. On the record, Gucci delivers pointed lyrics… The post Gucci Mane Disses Pooh Shiesty on “Crash Dummy” appeared first on .

I’m on record declaring Sunny Day Real Estate’s How It Feels To Be Something On as the best album of 1998. Does that statement stand up to scrutiny? Probably not, but it feels right whenever I’m listening. SDRE LP3 is a stone-cold classic, a record everyone who loves ambitious, arena-scale, artsy-but-accessible rock music should be… The post Coma Regalia – …

Sufjan Stevens is a man of mystery, and little bits of his lore seem to surface in the most unpredictable ways. In 2016, for instance, the Dallas musician Marc Rebillet posted about finding an unreleased 1998 album called Stalker in Stevens’ dumpster. (We interviewed Rebillet, naturally.) Now, a Penn State undergrad has posted on TikTok about the apparent discovery of …

“Of all people, you survived/ When no one else could stay alive/ You know you should be dead/ But you’re alive instead.” So begins “Of All People,” the new Foo Fighters single. The band debuted it in a taping of the Irish TV show Other Voices back in February; the episode finally aired this week,… The post Foo Fighters – …