Kiran Leonard –“Coayacán”
Manchester singer-songwriter Kiran Leonard released the stellar Grapefruit LP, a collection of Swans/Deerhoof/Radiohead-inspired forward-leaning jams, this past March. Though it's only been five...
View ArticleFreddie Gibbs Charged With Sexual Assault In Austria
After a lengthy process of arrests and extraditions, Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman while on tour in Vienna last year. Gibbs was first arrested in France...
View ArticleStream Pill Convenience
Brooklyn art-punk quartet Pill are set to drop their debut album, Convenience, tomorrow. They've already shared a third of the 12-track album, and each single has hinted at a comfort and audacity that...
View ArticleJidenna –“Chief Don’t Run” Video
Jidenna has had a nice string of singles and accompanying videos for Long Live The Chief. And while each of them has been good, the streak has been kind of frustrating because we still have no clue...
View ArticleBillie Marten –“Lionhearted” Video
Excellent British teen folk darling Billie Marten seemingly couldn't make a song that wasn't beautiful if she tried. Her debut full-length effort, Writing Of Blues And Yellows, is shaping up to be...
View ArticleChasms –“Black Ice”
Chasms is the San Francisco-based duo of Jess Labrador and Shannon Madden. They conjure beautifully dark, transfixing songs with a deft control of mood and evocative sentiment. Their proper full-length...
View ArticleRoses –“Accessory”
Juan Velasquez formed the trio Roses after Abe Vigoda broke up in 2014. After introducing themselves with one hell of an earworm guitar riff on "Florence Girls," they kept their stride into the...
View ArticleZ-Ro –“I Know” Video
Soulful Houston rapper/singer Z-Ro just dropped his latest album Drankin' And Drivin' last week. The underrated H-Town mainstay did his thing on the album, and one of the standout tracks is the middle...
View ArticleThis Guy On Catfish Thinks He’s Dating Katy Perry
So this guy is probably the biggest, fattest Catfish catfish of all time. Dude believed he'd been talking to Katy Perry online for six years and fell in love with her. His name is Spencer, and he's...
View ArticleRaury –“Like A Star” (Prod. Donnie Trumpet)
ATLien wunderkind Raury spread himself a little thin on the very ambitious All We Need last year. It felt disjointed in many spots because he was trying too hard to combine so many genres and...
View ArticleThe Tyde –“The Curse In Reverse” (Feat. Bernard Butler)
Look what the Tyde dragged in: their first album in a decade! Though the lineup has shifted in the 10 years since Three's Co. the current septet fronted by Darren Rademaker (of Beachwood Sparks and...
View ArticleMaxwell –“1990x” Video
R&B veteran Maxwell dropped the second installment of his long-drawn blacksummersnight trilogy, the confusingly titled blackSUMMERS'night, earlier this summer. Similar to how Maxwell the man looks...
View ArticleL.A. Reid Says A Tribe Called Quest Recorded One More Album Before Phife...
A Tribe Called Quest may join their Native Tongues' brethren De La Soul and drop another album. As reported by DJBooth, Epic Records CEO L.A. Reid went on the Rap Radar podcast and revealed that ATCQ...
View ArticleIsaiah Rashad –“i mean”
The lone Southern TDE ranger Isaiah Rashad is set to drop his proper debut in two weeks. Frankly, it's been too long since 2014's Cilvia Demo because that and everything he's put out since has been...
View ArticleLivestream The Tragically Hip’s Final Concert
The Tragically Hip announced their last tour in tandem with the sad news that frontman Gord Downie had terminal brain cancer earlier this year. Tonight they'll be finishing up that tour, and it will be...
View ArticleTeenage Fanclub –“Thin Air”
Scottish dreampop vets Teenage Fanclub are quickly approaching their 11th studio album, Here. We've already heard the lead single "I'm In Love" and today they given us the followup "Thin Air." It's...
View ArticleTegan And Sara –“Fade Out”
Tegan And Sara dropped their excellent album Love You To Death earlier this summer. Shortly after they released the album, we learned they had a song on The Intervention OST. The film, which stars Clea...
View ArticleAgainst Me! –“Crash” Video
Against Me! are in full promo mode for this fall's Shape Shift With Me. They've already handed us lead single "333" and the followup "Haunting, Haunted, Haunts." Today we get "Crash" along with a set...
View ArticleSantigold –“Banshee” Video
Santigold released 99¢ just before spring hit, and it's a bouncy, feel-good album that was perfect for the breeziest time of year. Her last single before the drop, "Banshee," is fun but darkly shaded,...
View ArticleBen Folds –“Capable Of Anything” Video
It's been almost a year since we've heard from Ben Folds after So There. But that album was a beautiful, dense collection of collaborations with the NY-based sextet yMusic, and it warrants revisiting....
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