At the top of this year, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Joy Oladokun released a very moving single “Nothing Comes Easy.” Today, she’s returned with another thoughtful single “Kind,” which also announces her new album Hope Is A Heavy Thing that’s out September 25. The post Joy Oladokun Announces New Album <em>Hope Is A Heavy Thing</em>: Hear “Kind” appeared first on Stereogum.

You ever think about milk? Like, thousands of years ago, some prehistoric person looked at a cow’s udder and thought I should drink what’s in there, and now it’s a staple of the human diet across so many cultures? Pretty fucking weird, man. Many people, for both health and moral reasons, won’t consume dairy. And then there are others who …

Following a successful broadway stint as the Emcee in Cabaret last year, country pop star Orville Peck is returning as the masked balladeer with a new album. Mule, which is out September 18 via Warner Records, will be his latest full-length since 2022’s Bronco. He announced news with the lead single “Too Little, Too Late.” The post Orville Peck Shares …

Michael Angelakos was a student at Boston’s Emerson College when he started writing the songs that would become his band Passion Pit’s 2008 debut EP Chunk Of Change. Since Angelakos actually started Passion Pit at Emerson in 2006, he’s now celebrating Passion Pit’s 20th anniversary. He’s not the only one celebrating the anniversary; the city of Boston has officially declared …

Once upon a time, U2 tried to make dance music. After successfully reinventing themselves as ironic aesthetes on Achtung Baby and Zooropa, U2 steered all the way into the late-’90s electronica hype wave on their 1997 album Pop, and the result was not what they wanted. U2 quickly abandoned that aesthetic path, leaning into classic sounds and elder-statesman status on …

Diddy has been locked up in solitary confinement after being involved in a fight with a fellow inmate at FCI Fort Dix. According to TMZ, Diddy was dissed by another… The post Solitary Sean: Diddy Placed in Confinement After Fort Dix Fight appeared first on .

Years ago, one of my editors made a point about Jack White that I’ve had in my head ever since: He’s Robert Plant and Jimmy Page at the same time. Within the White Stripes, White was more or less forced to play that role. This was a bare-bones duo who wanted to achieve rock-star immortality, so White had to be …

Everyone was mad about the Auto-Tune. I wasn’t mad about the Auto-Tune. Sure, Julian Casablancas kind of sounds like a malfunctioning robot, but what sucked about “Going Shopping” and “Falling Out Of Love” is how utterly forgettable they were. The Strokes are one of this century’s most important rock bands because they can make a song sound simultaneously lazy and …

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Trump has to answer to the House of Representatives, including four Republicans who switched sides and have now ruled that he must end the war with Iran. According to CBS… The post Republicans Switch Sides in House to Vote to Have Trump End War with Iran appeared first on .