Less than a year after the Killers released their latest album Pressure Machine, the band is already plotting new music. The band debuted their new track “Boy” during their set at Madrid’s Mad Cool Festival on Thursday. The group intended to premiere the song during an Instagram Live stream of …
Read More »Meet the Veteran Producer Behind Dozens of K-Pop's Biggest Hits
It begins with a crystalline, whistling melody. It’s sweetly seductive as it crests and dips, beckoning you closer. All of a sudden, NCT 127’s “Favorite (Vampire)” plummets into a quirky, hip-trap groove, where the rappers spit about a dangerous love that hurts so good. But this stark departure from its …
Read More »Brent Faiyaz Believes We Are Living In a 'Wasteland.' He Makes It Sound Damn Good
“I would like to apologize in advance for the person I’m gonna become once this album drops,” reads a billboard in New York’s Times Square. Plastered at the bottom is the single word Wasteland —the title to Brent Fayiaz’s long-awaited new album. If you think the statement on the billboard …
Read More »Margo Price, Mavis Staples, and Adia Victoria Release an Anthem for Human Rights
Margo Price is joined by Mavis Staples and Adia Victora for a rousing call to action in the new collaboration “Fight to Make It.” Released on Friday, the track’s sales on Bandcamp will benefit Noise for Now and its mission of supporting grassroots organizations working for reproductive justice. A lively …
Read More »Flashback: Bon Iver Shows the World His 'Skinny Love'
Today marks 15 years since Bon Iver released For Emma, Forever Ago. After breakups with his band and girlfriend, singer-songwriter Justin Vernon sought refuge by holing up in a hunting cabin in Wisconsin and sketching out nine songs. He was, as he later told Rolling Stone, “shatteringly alone.” Vernon didn’t …
Read More »The Mars Volta Rail Against U.S. Colonial Rule in Puerto Rico on New Song 'Graveyard Love'
The Mars Volta are back already with another new song and short film, “Graveyard Love.” The track is a prog-y, experimental dirge that appears to be inspired by the brutal colonialist rule the United States has imposed on Puerto Rico, where guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López was born. Of the lyrics to …
Read More »'You're a Mean Old Mama': Hear Steely Dan's Rare Cover of Joni Mitchell's 'Carey'
A Steely Dan cover of Joni Mitchell‘s “Carey” has been unearthed, and it’s the kind of soft rock summer treat you’d expect. The Blue track — which Mitchell wrote after an encounter with a chef in Crete — sounds especially jazzy here, and the duo even swaps gender and uses …
Read More »Latina Reinas Tini, Becky G, and Anitta Join Forces on 'La Loto'
Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina are repped hard on Tini’s new single, “La Loto,” featuring Anitta and Becky G. On Thursday, the Latina queens released the golden, vintage-style music video of the trio dancing and getting glammed up over the reggaetón beat. “Estamo’ armando un alboroto/Aquí somos puros corazones rotos/Lo que …
Read More »Nicki Minaj's Husband Sentenced to a Year in Home Confinement for Failing to Register as Sex Offender
Nicki Minaj’s husband Kenneth Petty was sentenced on Wednesday to a year under home confinement, along with three years’ probation and a $55,000 fine, for failing to register in California as a sex offender. Petty took a plea deal last year, admitting that he failed to register as a sex …
Read More »A 2021 Bob Dylan 'Blowin' in the Wind' Recording Sells for $1.8 Million at Auction: 'This Is Actually Scarce'
A person in London will get to listen to Bob Dylan‘s “Blowin’ in the Wind” on an acetate record worth $1,769,508. On Thursday, a 2021 recording of Bob Dylan’s Freewheelin’classic, pressed on acetate, sold at an auction for the hefty price at Christie’s in England. The price of the final …
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