Ken Calvert doesn’t seem like a very good guy. He’s a Southern California Republican congressman who signed onto the lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election, who voted against expanding federal hate crime laws, and who supported the overturning of Roe V. Wade. But there’s a new Democrat in town — California’s 41st congressional district, to be exact — …

Legendary bassist Peter Hook was one quarter of Joy Division, and he played in New Order from the band’s 1980 beginning until 2007, when he split bitterly with his longtime bandmate Bernard Sumner. Over the years, Hook and Sumner have sniped back and forth in the press, and Hook launched a 2015 lawsuit that’s since been settled. These days, Hook …

Philly’s Kevin Basko used to be a touring member of Foxygen, and he’s collaborated with artists like John Andrews & The Yawns, the Lemon Twigs, and Thank You, Thank You (you can hear him on last year’s great “Watching The Cyclones“). Under the name Rubber Band Gun, Basko releases his own tunes, which Thank You, Thank You’s Tyler Bussey affixed …

The mercurial Kilo Kish has a new EP called Negotiations on the way, and its almost-title-track features Miguel. The two artists are longtime collaborators, and here they team up on “Negotiate,” a hard-edged computer-pop track built on synths, blips, and a skittering drum machine. Within this mechanistic groove, Kish and Miguel’s voices provide a glimpse of human yearning, which fits …

Lil Wayne really wanted to headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show. Earlier this year, the Super Bowl came to New Orleans, Wayne’s hometown, and he waged a public campaign to get the Halftime Show. It didn’t happen. That spot instead went to Kendrick Lamar, currently at the peak of his commercial powers. When Kendrick was announced as the headliner, Wayne …

Before “My Prerogative” was a 2004 single for Britney Spears, it was a chart-topping, career-defining smash for Bobby Brown in 1988. Brown has now revealed that he’s not a fan of Spears’ cover. He shared his thoughts on a recent episode of Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast, saying he thought Spears — along with other artists who’ve sampled him …

I just missed a St. Vincent show. Annie Clark came to Charlottesville, the city where I live, on Saturday, the same night that hardcore greats Trapped Under Ice headlined Richmond’s United Blood fest. I don’t regret my decision, since TUI were fucking awesome, but I wish I could’ve seen both. St. Vincent has been awfully busy lately, playing with Arcade …

We are about to get so many previously unheard Bruce Springsteen songs. A couple of weeks ago, Springsteen announced the massive new box set Tracks II: The Lost Albums. It’ll include 83 songs that have never been released, divided up into albums that Springsteen essentially finished but then declined to release. Along with the announcement, Springsteen shared “Rain In The …

On this day in 2021, the hip hop community lost one of its most distinctive voices when Bad Boy rapper Black Rob passed away at the age of 51. Known… The post Today In Hip Hop History: Bad Boy Artist Black Rob Passed Away Three Years Ago appeared first on .

With each decade, musicians who’ve been in the game since they were a kid get to add a little flair to their performance style, like badges on a Boy Scouts sash. John Dwyer and David Barbarossa are such unshakeable giants at this point that listeners tend to associate them with a specific sound: garage rock for the Osees singer-guitarist, new …