Public Enemy‘s Chuck D reunited with Anthrax last year to perform the genre-smashing rendition of “Bring the Noise” they released together in 1991. The hip-hop artist’s appearance was part of Anthrax’s 40th-anniversary livestream, which was broadcast from a Los Angeles soundstage last July. The whole celebration is available now as …
Read More »The Weeknd Takes Us Inside His Brave New World — Finally — in Spectacular Stadium Tour Opener
For the past two years, while we’ve all been stuck inside or slowly reacclimating ourselves with the world outside, the Weeknd has been putting on a master class in musical world building. Both After Hours, released at the height of the pandemic in 2020, and Dawn FM, which dropped in …
Read More »The Many Lives of PJ Sin Suela: How a Local Doctor Became One of Puerto Rico's Most Exciting Rappers
During the peak of the pandemic, the Puerto Rican rapper PJ Sin Suela spent countless hours in the hospital. He intubated hundreds of people. He pulled back-to-back 24-hour shifts. He checked pulses and oxygen levels nonstop. He delivered good and bad news to families. He got Covid and recovered. And …
Read More »Young the Giant Seek a Deeper Reality on 'Wake Up'
Young the Giant have spent the past decade-plus crafting music that centers around complex struggles most experience at least once in our lives, and finding deeper meanings to life’s major questions — you know, the type of questions that help when tailoring one’s identity. On their latest single, “Wake Up,” …
Read More »Maggie Rogers Takes Her Song 'Horses' for a Ride Through a Field in New Music Video
Maggie Rogers brings her new song “Horses” to some wide-open fields in the new music video for the Surrender track. The video, which the singer-songwriter co-directed with frequent collaborator Michael Scanlon, was shot in upstate New York. It finds Rogers, armed with an acoustic guitar, delivering an emphatic and effusive …
Read More »Kelsea Ballerini Finds Everything 'Subject to Change' on New Album
Kelsea Ballerini will examine the forces shaping and reshaping her life with the new album Subject to Change this fall. The follow-up to her 2020 album Kelsie, Subject to Change will be released on Sept. 23. “In my younger years, the idea of change scared me. It had proven to …
Read More »Finneas and Claudia Sulewski Make Us Wish We Were Boo'd Up in Paris in New Video
Oh, to have a boo — and to be in Paris. On Friday, Finneas dropped the phone-recorded music video for his new song “Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa,” an ode to his girlfriend Claudia Sulewski — and we’re going to admit it: we’re lowkey jealous of how cute these two are. …
Read More »Megadeth's 'Countdown to Extinction' at 30: How the Thrashers Finally Proved Themselves
When Dave Mustaine looks back on making Countdown to Extinction, the 1992 album that propelled Megadeth into the mainstream, he’s thankful for his clarity of mind at the time. After years of alcohol and drug abuse, the eternally redheaded singer, guitarist, and songwriter had gotten sober before the making of …
Read More »'Most Important Day in His Life': NBA YoungBoy's L.A. Gun Trial Goes to Jury
NBA YoungBoy’s fate was dropped in the hands of a federal jury in Los Angeles Thursday after lawyers on both sides said the case accusing the wildly popular rapper of being a felon in possession of a firearm was “simple.” Prosecutors argued YoungBoy, born Kentrell Gaulden, proved his own guilt …
Read More »Britney Spears' Dad Ordered To Give Deposition, But His 'Revenge' Exam of Singer Still Undecided
Britney Spears’ dad must stop dodging his pop star daughter and sit for a deposition no later than Aug. 12 to answer questions about his alleged “misconduct” at the helm of her now-terminated conservatorship, a judge ruled Wednesday. Los Angeles County Judge Brenda Penny said Jamie Spears must travel to …
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