The Milwaukee hardcore band Big Laugh are going on indefinite hiatus, but first, they’re going out with a bang. Days Of Disarray, a farewell 12″ EP from the group out today, strikes exactly the right balance of punishing and strange. It’s just weird enough for Convulse Records to name-check Unwound in the Bandcamp bio, but all those odd-shaped riffs and …

“I need to believe in the stars tonight, in a future,” Orlando Higginbottom sighs on one of his new singles “Desire.” He’s looking for a fresh start, searching for light to guide him forward. And, who doesn’t need that in these trying ass times? “Desire” is one of the two singles — the other is titled “The Echo” — Higginbottom …

Is anybody media trained anymore? Do a YouTube search for your favorite pop star of the decade, and there’s a decent chance you’ll get an exhaustive 30-minute video of every chaotic, unfiltered thing they’ve said or done on camera — at least, unfiltered in the eyes of the person painstakingly compiling the clips. The idea that an artist might engage …

This Emmy-winning Mexican-American director is behind FX’s Alien: Earth series. And apparently it runs in the family. The post This Mexican-American Directed Episodes of FX’s ‘Alien: Earth’ Series appeared first on Remezcla.

Oh, I like this one. More than a decade ago, Chief Keef and DJ Mustard both pioneered their own fiercely regional forms of music — Chicago drill for Keef, the clipped and efficient LA sound that I still know as Mustardwave for Mustard. Today, the two of them remain vital forces. Chief Keef’s Almighty So 2 was one of last …

By now, we’re all well aware that Geese frontman Cameron Winter is a goofy dude with profound creative skills. Now, there’s an unearthed track that he wrote when he was a kid, solidifying that he’s always been a genius. You know when the videos of Timothée Chalamet rapping about statistics or performing Nick Minaj lyrics were discovered? Yeah, this is …

The LA synth-punk band Grey Factor did not last long — just from 1979 to 1980 — and they didn’t leave a huge impression in their day. But Grey Factor’s intense beep-snarp music feels eternally cool, and the band has gotten a couple of reissues lately — a complete studio collection in 2023, a live album last year. This fall, …

For a few years now, the New York-based artist Gabe ‘Nandez has been making intense, thoughful underground rap music. ‘Nandez is a prolific force with an fascinating sense of perspective, as he grew up around the world as the son of a UN Peacekeeper. Just this year, ‘Nandez teamed up with Louis Jack to form a duo called LJGN and …

Elias Rønnenfelt is on a collaborative tear. Last week, he released a cover of “My Suitor,” a 1983 single from the Belgian new wave band Bernthøler, that he worked on with Yung Lean and Fousheé. He also was spotted playing new guitar legend Mk.Gee at five-pin billiards, which I’m also now learning is called Italian billiards. He’s continuing his collaborative …

For years now, A$AP Rocky has been releasing one-off singles that may or may not appear on Don’t Be Dumb, his long-awaited and long-delayed new album. The most recent of them, the KayCyy collab “pray4dagang,” came out just last month. Today, Rocky releases two new tracks, but these ones don’t have anything to do with Don’t Be Dumb. Instead, they’re …