Bartees Strange offers a glimpse at his ever-expanding indie rock Rolodex on his new song, “Cosigns,” the second offering from his next album, Farm to Table, set to arrive June 17 via 4AD. “Cosigns” begins as a wholly unique bit of indie rap-rock, with Strange peeling off endlessly clever bars …
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Sharon Van Etten is no stranger to drama. The L.A-via-Brooklyn indie-rock star has spent her career breaking hearts, turning grief and lust and pain into cathartic beauty. But even by her standards, life has been messy lately. She fell in love with her drummer and had a kid. She moved …
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Vladimir Putin gave one of Russia’s most controversial rappers a special birthday present this year: designation as a foreign agent. The first musician to ever receive the government branding, rapper FACE spent his 25th birthday elated by the news. “I’m proud of it. It’s the best birthday gift I’ve ever …
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Who better to fight the “prowling big bear” of Russia than Volodymyr Zelensky, “the man with the iron balls.” At least that’s what Primus’ Les Claypool and Gogol Bordello‘s Eugene Hütz sing about on their irreverent new track about Ukraine‘s president. “As soon as Russian aggression broke out, Les and …
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Brockhampton’s teased what will likely be their final album in a new trailer for the project, which is set to arrive this year. The group shared the minute-long video Monday night, April 18. In it, they all gather in a recording studio, where Kevin Abstract sits at the head of …
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The audience didn’t know what to make of the strange, dissonant sounds coming from the four musicians onstage at New York’s United Palace on April 16. Swift, dive-bombing squeals and nervous rhythms poured out of the Aizuri Quartet‘s instruments for 10 minutes straight. They paused; the crowd applauded, a little …
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During the first of two nights at Radio City Music Hall for the New York stops of her Solar Power tour, Lorde performed a cover of “Hentai,” the overtly sex-positive song from Rosalía’s latest album Motomami. In a recent email to her fans, Lorde praised Motomami, saying: “I’ve listened to …
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Chris Cornell’s daughter, Toni Cornell, took the stage on The Late Late Show Monday, April 19, to cover Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” — a tribute to her late father, who earned a posthumous Grammy nomination for his version of the song. For her take on “Nothing Compares 2 U,” …
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Jason Newsted sent minor shockwaves through the hard-rock community late last week when he told the The Palm Beach Post that he’d been invited to jam with Alex Van Halen and Joe Satriani six months ago as part of a possible Van Halen tribute tour. The former Metallica bassist said …
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Lil Nas X is heading back out to the “Old Town Road” for a throwback performance of his earliest hit, this time as an animated country musician named June Bug on the Disney Plus series The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder. When a normally disco-ified Bobby Proud joins June Bug’s …
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