For anyone who loves free-form avant-jazz, Hyphen Dash’s new album, Basement 626, will strike the proverbial experimental chord. Over its 17 tracks, drummer Myshko Birchenko and guitarist/loops player Yevhen Puhachov stretch out into trippy, airy new-age jazz and misty-mountain soundscapes, conjuring the improvised, on-the-fly fusion instrumental records they grew up …
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So you know your Taylor Swift. You’ve heard the albums. You’ve sung along with the classic tunes and traded the friendship bracelets. You’ve spent way too much time decoding all the Easter eggs she hides in her lyrics, videos, album covers. You’ve screamed all 10 minutes of “All Too Well” …
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Brothers Osborne follow up their self-titled 2023 album and last year’s Break Mine EP with the electrifying new rocker “Finish This Drink.” The song is a concise blast of funky country-rock, with shades of the Allman Brothers, some traditional-country fiddle, and lyrics about a bottle that just won’t empty. “Out …
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Kelly Clarkson flashed back to 1999 on the latest Kellyoke installment on The Kelly Clarkson Show. The singer and host delivered a rock-heavy performance of the classic Foo Fighters single “Learn to Fly,” marking the third time she has reimagined music from the band on the talk show. In 2020, …
Read More »Meet GIFT, the Space Rockers Aiming for 'Otherworldly' Sounds
N ew York’s a hard place to do psychedelics,” GIFT frontman TJ Freda says. “It’s really intense here. Stuff’s always moving so quick, and everyone’s getting thrown around. … I’ll save the big cathartic, psychedelic experiences for really special moments.” That said, the city’s hectic pace hasn’t stopped him or …
Read More »Djo Is Anything but Basic on 'The Crux'
If you look closely at the cover of the third album singer-songwriter-actor Joe Keery has released as Djo, you can see him hanging out a window, his back turned to a busy, sunny street scene in which no one seems aware of his precarious situation. The self-obscuring image can pretty …
Read More »Sean Combs: Prosecutors Add Two Charges in New Indictment
One month before Sean Combs’ racketeering and sex trafficking trial is set to begin, prosecutors filed a superseding indictment against Combs Thursday that brings two additional criminal counts against him. In the new indictment, obtained by Rolling Stone, prosecutors have charged Combs with one additional charge of sex trafficking and …
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Bridgerton’s Lady Whistledown would have a lot to say about PinkPantheress‘ latest single “Tonight,” the video for which finds the innovative musician derailing a regency-era ballroom performance. Directed by Charlotte Rutherford, the clip follows PinkPantheress and her crew riding up to a mansion on bikes and carriages with plans to …
Read More »A Second Mexican City Says Fyre Fest 2 Isn't Happening There
Fyre Fest 2 already looks like it might be as fake as the first edition. On Thursday, the tourist town of Playa Del Carmen in Mexico denied that the Billy McFarland-planned fest is happening there, just weeks after the tourist board of Isla Mujeres also said the event “does not …
Read More »Eminem Is a Grandpa! Rapper's Daughter Hailie Honors Him With Baby Name
Slim Shady is a grandpa! On Friday, Eminem‘s daughter Hailie Jade Scott shared photos of her newborn baby with her husband Evan McClintock, several weeks after the baby was born on March 14. And the baby’s name honors the rapper. Scott posted the photo of the baby, in a knitted …
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