What’s the greatest rap crew of all time? There are a bunch of valid answers to that question. One of the leading candidates would have to be the Wu-Tang Clan, who just finished a triumphant farewell tour. Now, Wu-Tang mastermind RZA has turned his attention to one of the other greatest rap crews in history, the Juice Crew.
Lily Allen is a huge influence on the current generation of conversational, gleefully messy pop stars, but she hasn’t released any music of her own in a while. No Shame, her most recent album, came out back in 2018. But Allen has remained culturally present in different ways: Publishing a memoir, hosting a podcast, selling a vibrator, acting in big …
It’s only been a week since we learned Haim were releasing a deluxe version of this year’s long-awaited I quit. Upon announcing the expanded LP, they shared one of three bonus tracks, a new Bon Iver collab called “Tie You Down.” The full deluxe is out today, which means we get two more new Haim songs.
Mil-Spec back, baby! The fiery, melodic, ambitious Toronto hardcore band has always been deeply underrated, and they’re one of my fovorite acts currently going. Almost exactly two years ago, Mil-Spec released their LP Marathon, and it placed high on my list of 2023’s best hardcore albums. Earlier this year, Mil-Spec guitarist Dan Darrah released There’s A Place, a very different …
The multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and producer Andrew Dost was in Fun. with Jack Antonoff and Nate Ruess, and before that he was part of the sprawling, high-concept indie band Anathallo. His current musical venture is Metal Bubble Trio, who bill their sound as a trip through “a universe of jazz-infused bossa nova and exotica.” Back in January, Metal Bubble Trio released …
The UK rapper fakemink is has been a swift phenomenon in an ever-growing wave of swift phenomena. Already, his music has soundtracked a fashion show for Alexander McQueen, and he was a special guest the other night at Playboy Carti’s LA show that also featured Kendrick Lamar and A$AP Rocky. Now the current king of releasing endless singles has another …
We did it, everyone. We lived to see the moment when Dua Lipa welcomed Ben Gibbard to the stage and sang a Death Cab For Cutie song with him. Is that a good thing? That’s really up to you. It’s a personal decision. But if our friend Chris DeVille was still writing Such Great Heights, his book about the process …
LA-based art-poppers Magdalena Bay are currently touring behind their great 2024 album Imaginal Disk, and they continue to release new music. Last month, the duo dropped two songs, “Second Sleep” and “Star Eyes.” Today, they’ve got two more. It looks like they’ll have more after these, as well.
A couple months ago, Chrissie Hynde — founder and sole permanent member of the Pretenders — announced a stacked duets album under her own name, featuring artists such as Rufus Wainwright, Brandon Flowers, Debbie Harry, Shirley Manson, and Alan Sparhawk. That album is out today, which means we finally get to hear her perform Elvis’ “I Can’t Help Falling In …
Earlier this week, the Los Angeles hardcore band Zulu performed in São Paolo without …
