Bob Dylan and Van Morrison go way back. The two legendary contemporaries have covered one another tons of times over the years. They’ve performed together on multiple occasions — including, as Rolling Stone points out, a 1988 co-headlining tour. They were both in The Last Waltz. Dylan has played his own versions of Van Morrison’s classics many times; he just …

Any time you hear Rico Nasty trill the word “Kennyyyyyyy” on a song’s intro, you know you’re about to hear some shit. Rico and producer Kenneth Blume have both made a whole lot of music with a whole lot of people, but one might argue that the two of them made their best music together,… The post Rico Nasty – …

Brigitte Naggar returned this year with Anything glass, her first Common Holly album since 2019. Today the self-professed “sincere-core” artist has delivered a stripped-down cover of “Amour, Amour,” a Michel Legrand song from the 1970 film Peau d’Âne. This song has been in my head since I first encountered it during a film screening in… The post Common Holly – …

Like his brother Westside Gunn and his cousin Benny The Butcher, Buffalo hardass Conway The Machine has been a prolific underground rap force for many years. We don’t get too many new albums in the last few weeks of the year, but we’re getting one from Conway, who will follow up last year’s Slant Face… The post Conway The Machine …

The Nigerian star Tems finally only just released her official debut album Born In The Wild last year, but she’s already racked up a ton of accomplishments. She’s got a couple of Grammys, an Oscar nomination, and a #1 Hot 100 hit on her résumé. In the past few months, she’s appeared on records with… The post Tems Drops Surprise …

The soundtrack for the new Amazon-made Christmas movie Oh. What. Fun. is speckled with indie stars like Fleet Foxes, St. Vincent, Jeff Tweedy, Weyes Blood, Sharon Van Etten, Madi Diaz, Uwade, Andy Shauf, and Lorely Rodriguez (Empress Of). A lot of the artists have recorded popular and traditional Christmas songs for the project, but Fleet… The post Fleet Foxes – …

Robyn is in album mode: previewing a new LP at Paris Fashion Week, debuting a video for lead single “Dopamine,” performing her first concert in six years. She’ll be doing another gig soon, and it sounds like a party. Today the Swedish alt-pop legend announced a New Year’s Eve show at Brooklyn Paramount. The post Robyn Is Playing Brooklyn On …

In 2023, the UK dance duo Overmono made it into our Album Of The Week column with their full-length debut Good Lies. Overmono, the team of brothers Tom and Ed Russell, haven’t released another LP since then, but they’ve done one-off collaborations with people like Fred again.. and Ruthven. A few months ago, Overmono teamed… The post Overmono – “Paradise …

If you’re an extraordinarily affluent teen from New York City’s upper east side growing up in the 2010s, there’s only one phrase that’s more harrowing than an AMEX being declined: “That’s one secret I’ll never tell.” Today, the tagline from the teen drama Gossip Girl lives on with the new single from Lolina — one… The post Lolina – “gg” …

Music producer and frequent collaborator Bryan Michael Cox has publicly responded to the civil lawsuit filed against him this week by pop superstar Usher, which seeks to recover an unpaid…