Last month, Bleary Eyed announced their third album Easy. The Philly shoegaze crew shared the lead single “Heaven Year,” and now they’re unveiling the restless, enveloping tune “Susan.”

Back in his pre-fame days, the actor and musician Joe Keery was a member of the Chicago psych-rock band Post Animal. But then Keery got cast as Steve in Stranger Things, and he got busy enough as an actor that he had to leave the band. These days, Keery’s acting career is going great; he plays Stephen Malkmus in Pavements, …

Where screamo is concerned, I go through phases. It’s not an everyday or even every-month indulgence for me. But sometimes a release comes along to remind me of the genre’s awe-inspiring power and rope me back in. Today, that release is Antithesis, the debut EP from California’s MÁU. Released last year and reissued now for a (slightly) broader audience through …

Chicago rapper Ric Wilson makes joyous, propulsive music that resists genre category. He’s a universal collaborator who can make sense alongside, say, Terrace Blanchard or CHAI, but he seems most at home doing lush, bubbly club music. A couple of years ago, Wilson teamed up with Chromeo and A-Trak for the singles “Pay It No Mind” and “Clusterfunk.” Now, he’s …

RuPaul’s Drag Race icon Valentina just celebrated her birthday in a very special way with a heartfelt message. The post ‘Drag Race’ Icon Valentina Comes Out as Trans appeared first on Remezcla.

Once again, the Ruler is back. Last month, the Nas-backed label Mass Appeal announced Legend Has It…, a new series of seven albums from seven iconic rap acts, including long-awaited records like Nas and DJ Premier’s collaborative LP and Ghostface Killah’s Supreme Clientele 2. On the billboard where they unveiled the series, Mass Appeal also promised “the epic return of…” …

You know Peter Morén as the male voice in “Young Folks” and other great Peter Bjorn And John tracks from the Writer’s Block era and beyond. (Writer’s Block — an amazing album through and through. A genuine classic. But I digress.) These days he’s making folk-rock under the name SunYears, and he has a new album in the queue.

The watch company Shinola unveiled two swanky new timepieces today, both in honor of the late legendary producer J Dilla. The news arrives with an accompanying teaser clip narrated by his fellow Detroiter Big Sean. It is quite literally Dilla Time.

We are getting real close to I Let The Wind Push Down On Me, the exceptional new album from Chicago indie rockers Moontype, so you’d better start paying attention if you haven’t yet. The new LP drops next week, and today the band has given us a fantastic reminder in the form of “Starry Eyed,” the latest single following “Long …

In 2022, Power Trip guitarist Blake Ibanez started a new band called Fugitive with members of fellow Texan hardcore and metal bands like Skourge, Impalers, and Creeping Death. The band’s debut EP Maniac was Ibanez’s first music since the sudden and tragic 2020 death of Power Trip frontman Riley Gale. It didn’t quite sound like Power Trip, but it was …