Look at that cover art. Really take it in. It’s beautiful. It looks like the cover of a ’90s underground comic about a heroic, super-powered rioter. It looks fucking awesome. I really shouldn’t need to write anything to get you to check out this new EP from the Manchester-based hardcore band T.S. Warspite. You should already be sold.

Madi Diaz has this incredible talent: She makes common modern language about romantic relationships sound poetic and emotionally charged. Even therapy-speak that would come off as cringe coming from most people, when harnessed and molded by Diaz, takes on a kind of raw-nerve intimacy that transcends cliché. On “Why’d You Have To Bring Me Flowers,” the final single from this …

If you like to hear voices and acoustic guitars and sometimes strings cascading all over each other in a headlong rush, you should be advised that the singer and composer Hannah Frances will release Nestled In Tangles, her new album, later this week. Frances sounds absolutely nothing like, say, Ed Droste, but you can hear some echoes of Grizzly Bear …

Rush’s Neil Peart, one of the great figures in prog-rock history, passed away in 2020, losing a battle to brain cancer at the age of 67. Peart wasn’t just the drummer for the Canadian institution; he was also the band’s main lyricist and general mastermind. At the time of Peart’s death, Rush hadn’t played any shows since they finished their …

The third season of La Casa de Los Famosos México came to a close last night (Oct. 5) with a fan favorite emerging victorious. The post Who Won ‘La Casa de los Famosos México 3’? appeared first on Remezcla.

As you get older, you will inevitably get hit with the notion that you have made a wrong turn somewhere along the way, that you have fucked things up for yourself in some irreparable way. Even if you are happy and successful and generally doing well, you will have this feeling. You might even have it when you’re still young. …

On this day in 1992, Chicago MC Common, then known as Common Sense, released his debut album Can I Borrow A Dollar?, marking the arrival of one of hip-hop’s most thoughtful… The post Today In Hip Hop History: Common(Sense) Released His Debut Album ‘Can I Borrow A Dollar?’ 33 Years Ago appeared first on .

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music.

Taylor Swift just released a record, so naturally, Taylor Swift just broke some records. In its first day, The Life Of A Showgirl sold 1.2 million vinyl copies, breaking the record for first-week sales in the format in the modern era, Billboard reports. (The stats date back to 1991, when Luminate, the company formerly known as MRC Data and Nielsen …