We’re in a moment where our greatest pop stars are getting paid big money to lend their names to animated movies for children. The Rihanna Smurfs reboot is set to open in a couple of days, and now Ariana Grande has added to her increasingly busy film slate by playing the lead in a new Dr. Seuss adaptation. Grande recently …

In a couple of months, weird-music OG David Byrne will release Who Is The Sky?, his first solo album since 2018’s excellent, Broadway-bound American Utopia. Byrne, who has been extremely culturally present lately, recorded the LP with Harry Styles producer Kid Harpoon, and it’s got guests like Hayley Williams and St. Vincent, the latter of whom appears on lead single …

If you’re in Puerto Rico for the Bad Bunny residency, there’s a new interactive experience that just opened for his biggest fans. The post ‘Seguimo’ Aquí’ is Another Way To Experience Bad Bunny’s Residency in Puerto Rico appeared first on Remezcla.

Billie Marten was ready for something new. Since she was 17, the London-based singer-songwriter born Isabella Sophie Tweddle had been pouring her heart out into the sorts of gorgeous folk-pop songs that can take your breath away. With Dog Eared, out this Friday, Marten, now in her mid-twenties, sought to transform her creative process, to situate herself amidst a vibrant …

Can you hear that? Can you feel that? The next album from the Armed is rapidly approaching. The Future Is Here And Everything Needs To Be Destroyed has already yielded the singles “Well Made Play” and “Kingbreaker,” and now the Detroit hardcore art project has released a video for a third advance track.

We last heard from Minneapolis indie-synthpop veterans Poliça three years ago, when they released their Madness album. Earlier this year, Poliça performed at a Bernie Sanders rally in Wisconsin. Now, they’re coming back with a new album called Dreams Go. They recorded it at Minnesota’s Pachyderm Studios, the place where Nirvana cut In Utero. Ryan Olson, Poliça’s co-founder and longtime …

Back in 2020, Robert Plant and his backing band Saving Grace shared a live cover of Low’s “Everybody’s Song,” continuing the Led Zeppelin singer’s long history of appreciating the Duluth indie rock/slowcore heroes. Now, the studio version of that cover has become the lead single for Plant’s new album.

Young bluegrass beast Billy Strings is a particular type of shredder, and he sometimes indulges his taste in a very different type of shredding. Before he found jammy roots-music stardom, Strings played with the Michigan metal bands Groove Tongue and To Once Darkened Skies. Last year, he joined the Grand Rapids band Flesh And Blood Robot onstage at their reunion …

Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menendez Story saw 3 of the 4 main cast members get Emmy nominations. Who didn’t? The only Latino. The post Emmys Snub This Latino Actor from ‘Monsters: The Erik and Lyle Menendez Story’ appeared first on Remezcla.

Los Campesinos!, the beloved Welsh indie-pop icons who’ve dunked on right-wing ideologies many times in song and elsewhere, were apparently recently asked by Airbnb to use one of their songs in an advertisement. Yesterday the band tweeted that they turned down the $60,000 deal because of the company’s impact on the worldwide housing crisis, and because of the rental properties …