Gorillaz have a large Gen Z following, and to kick off the rollout for the genre-blurring, culture-jamming multimedia band’s next album, Damon Albarn is giving that audience exactly what they want: a Sparks feature. The Mountain, the follow-up to 2023’s Cracker Island, will arrive in March. (Yes, this campaign will be quite the climb.)
It’s been almost exactly a year since the members of Jane’s Addiction broke out in an onstage fistfight in Boston, leading to the cancellation of their tour and the end of the band. In the aftermath of the brawl, most people involved with the tour pointed their fingers at frontman Perry Farrell, while Farrell and his wife, Etty Lau Farrell, …
Calling all Kuchis! Kali Uchis is leaving her mark on national television. On Sept. 10, the Colombian-American pop star premiered her new Spanglish doo-wop single, “Cry about it!” featuring Panamanian-American singer Ravyn Lenae on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. The new song is part of her upcoming deluxe album Sincerely, P.S., due on Sept. The post Kali Uchis’ ‘Cry …
We got our first exposure to Malloy Hawk’s solo music last year when the Trace Mountains/Customer/M(h)aol member shared the singles “All Your Troubles” and “Run Until They Catch You.” She’s following up those dark, melancholic indie tracks today with something slightly different. Hawk’s new single “Felicity” pairs an acoustic guitar with a drum machine in a way that makes it …
LA synth-rockers HEALTH have been through some big changes since they arrived on our radar nearly two decades ago. They started out as a noisy, experimental art-punk group with some dance tendencies, and they’ve turned into a goth-industrial institution, a reliable source for music that makes you feel like you’re about to get into a gunfight in a late-’90s sci-fi …
Earlier this year, the R&B star Kali Uchis released her album Sincerely. Since then, she’s been touring arenas and sharing stages with some very big surprise guests. Now, there’s another star who could conceivably join her onstage at any moment. Much like Uchis, Ravyn Lenae started out on the artier fringes of the R&B world before finding mainstream fame. Right …
In 2016, bucolic New Jersey indie rockers Real Estate parted ways with founding guitarist Matt Mondanile amidst a storm of sexual assault allegations against Mondanile. The band quickly replaced him with Julian Lynch, a musician who also makes solo music under his own name. Last month, Lynch announced that he’s leaving Real Estate after finishing his last few shows with …
A new month is upon us, and in pop in 2025 that means one thing: New sensitive dude just dropped. His name, unfortunately, is sombr. His aesthetic is part indie sleaze, part Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest. Despite his stage name, his music is not really somber; it’s jaunty radio bait that, if not fully rock, is certainly rock-coded. His lyrics …
On Sunday night, the MTV Video Music Awards staged a tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne, with the young British rocker type Yungblud joining Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry and Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt to perform a medley of Osbourne’s songs. Lots of people wasn’t into it. One of those people was the Darkness guitarist Dan Hawkins. In an Instagram …
Sudan Archives is gearing up for the release of The BPM next month. So far she’s released an enthralling batch of singles including “DEAD,” “MY TYPE,” “YEA YEA YEA,” and “MS. PAC-MAN.” Now, she’s back with “COME AND FIND YOU.”
Earlier this week, the Los Angeles hardcore band Zulu performed in São Paolo without …
