In the grand scheme, 2016 wasn’t that long ago. Back then, Chance The Rapper appeared on my two favorite songs of the year, “Ultralight Beam” and “No Problem.” Like many in the music world, I was Chance-pilled, fully in tune with creative tics that would later scan as profoundly irritating. Yes, he fumbled resoundingly on 2019’s The Big Day, and …

Chicago emcee Recoechi leans into his city’s hip-hop history on the latest single from his upcoming album FLAVAZ. “Da Godly” channels the neo-soul era with its smoky, jazzy live-band sound (courtesy of Renzell and Hudah of Hypnotic Brass) and a chorus from JazStarr that interpolates Erykah Badu’s “Other Side Of The Game.” Denzel Lavel is also in the mix with …

Touring seems incredibly difficult. It’s mentally, physically, emotionally, and financially draining. The latest of musicians to go viral for suffering under touring’s intense constraints is popstar Justin Timberlake. He seemed to be quite over it at his first-ever performance in Transylvania on July 17. Now, as his tour comes to an end, he is reflecting on his tour journey, even …

“No one is bored, everything is boring,” the late writer Mark Fisher once wrote. He was talking about how our boredom, “a capacity for absorption,” has been replaced by anxiety — “constant dispersal of attention, which is integral to capitalist cyberspace.” Essentially, we’re so overstimulated that we’re tricked into thinking we need to attend to everything, buy everything, consume everything. …

Before Neil Finn led Crowded House to blockbuster status — and long before he briefly joined Fleetwood Mac — the Kiwi national treasure first came to fame as a member of Split Enz. Finn wouldn’t join the young Auckland art-rock band, which was founded by his older brother Tim, until 1977. That means he wasn’t in the band yet 50 …

Bad Bunny is bringing a historic F1 demo to Puerto Rico during his residency and here’s how you can attend. The post Bad Bunny Is Bringing F1 to Puerto Rico — Here’s How To Attend appeared first on Remezcla.

Spinal Tap are back in more ways than one. Accompanying the fictitious heavy metal legends’ next mockumentary chapter is a real album. It’s dubbed The End Continues and will be available the same day as Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, on Sept. 12. Even the album cover blurs the lines between reality and fiction with Crosby, Stills & Nash …

The godfathers of American thrash have had a rough go of it in the 21st century. The Big Four – that’s Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax, if you’re new here – have released a cumulative 20 studio albums since 2000. What’s the best of those records? It certainly isn’t any of Metallica’s limp, post-St. Anger nostalgia trips. Megadeth buried a …

It seems we are getting a new Phil Elverum album. The Northwestern artist released his most recent album as Mount Eerie, Night Palace, last fall, and we granted it Album Of The Week status. But this new project isn’t being released under Mount Eerie or his former moniker the Microphones. Instead, it’s a collaboration with experimental Olympia artist Arrington de …

“The Mountain,” the latest single from London-based experimental artist feeo, reminds us how small we are. It’s a sparse, ambient track — a cyclic hum, a single pounding drum, and a slow-build of white noise. But feeo’s vocals are soft and absorbing like a lullaby. “I’m only a witness, just a second in time.” It’s the kind of thought that …