"Just as the physicality of exercise takes one out of the mind, so does the bodily response to the thud, thud, thud of techno. The rattling of the ribcage; the beat of the music in your chest – as if you had the world’s most muscular, obnoxious heart. There’s no space for bad thoughts, doubt or […]
PopMatters has an interesting essay on goth punk beginnings, and how it still makes sense today: "While traditional goth punks tout the virtues of old school bands like the Banshees and Bauhaus, or of successors like the Horrors, Pale Waves, and Plastique Noir, younger goths are more likely to head to the dance floor where […]
Canadian producer Yu Su has a new vinyl release ‘Watermelon Woman' on Ninja Tune sister label Technicolour - four versions of the "ridiculously funky" title track, which is itself a riff on Herbie Hancock’s impossibly smooth and delightfully kooky classic jazz composition, as Fact Magazine puts it. She explains that "The whole idea of ‘Watermelon Woman’ […]
Influential French post-metalers Alcest have shared new single, a six-minute stunner 'Protection', with a video to go with it (watch below). It announces band's sixth album, 'Spiritual Instinct', out in October.
New York trio Skull Practitioners have been together since 2013, have only released a 2014 cassette so far, and today they are releasing their first EP 'Death Buy', "four ripping, ripped-up tracks". Listen to it here.
NASA's InSight robotic lander on Mars captured a little stone rolling across the surface of the red planet. The first thing they did, of course, they gave it a name - Rolling Stones Rock. Robert Downey Jr. took the stage just before the Stones at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on Thursday night to […]
Tom Waits is turning 70 in December, so women of the world got together (well, not all women, chosen ones), and sang his songs. 'Come On Up To The House: Women Sing Waits' features Phoebe Bridgers, Aimee Mann, Iris Dement, Corinne Bailey Rae, Courtney Marie Andrews, Joseph, Rosanne Cash, Kat Edmonson, Patty Griffin (listen to her […]
Missy Elliott came through with a new project today (Aug. 23) titled 'Iconology', containing 5 new songs, 14 years after her last album 'The Cook Book'. She also dropped a music video for one of the project's tracks, 'Throw It Back' (watch here). Missy announced it yesterday as a "collection of songs", writing "Let’s #ThrowItBack to a […]
The U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that iconic film composer Ennio Morricone may reclaim the copyrights to six of his film scores from the late ’70s and early ’80s. In another copyright case, Eminem' publishing company Eight Mile Style filed a massive copyright infringement lawsuit against Spotify. The lawsuit claims that Spotify has no […]
A project that was supposed to be once and never again, turned into an indie super-group. Fitted features Wire members Graham Lewis and Matthew Sims, Minutemen’s Mike Watt and Fearless Leader drummer Bob Lee, with their debut album 'First Fits' coming out in November. Listen to their first single 'Training Pitbulls for the Navy' on […]
"I bought over 500 albums from 2016... and if I list my favourite albums now, most of them were released in 2016" - British comedian James Acaster writes in his new book 'Perfect Sound Whatever', and names Beyonce's 'Lemonade', Frank Ocean's critically-acclaimed 'Blonde', Kanye West, Radiohead, David Bowie's final studio album 'Blackstar', and some much […]
Universal Music Group is claiming neither Steve Earle nor Tom Petty nor Tupac Shakur did not lose original master recordings in a 2008 fire on the Universal Studios backlot, Variety reports. An investigation into the loss of material by Soundgarden, the only other current plaintiff, is ongoing. Hole has dropped out of the lawsuit because […]
Los Angeles "death disco" band Death Valley High is releasing a new EP, 'Duel', and each song sees them in a “duel” with a different guest artist, including Chris Connelly (Revolting Cocks), Hanin Elias (Atari Teenage Riot), and Deftones frontman Chino Moreno, who’s on the just-released cover of Christian Death‘s 'Cavity – First Communion' (watch below). They found out about their […]
Kim Gordon has announced her first-ever solo album, 'No Home Record', coming out October 13 via Matador. The album’s new single ‘Sketch Artist’ "projects a certain restlessness of spirit", ac Fact Magazine hears it. Why a solo record, and why now? - "living in L.A. the last few years it feels like home, but the […]
The Prodigy songwriter and producer Liam Howlett has confirmed the band has been back in the studio recently, Music News reports. Alongside a studio snap posted on the band's official Facebook page on Tuesday, Liam - who is joined by Maxim in the group - wrote: "Back in the studio making noise .. brand new […]
Women-only festivals have started to happen this year, as a reaction to male-dominated festival scene. KT Tunstall has launched a festival HearHer with female solo artists or women-fronted bands, and women will run the behind-the-scenes production. On the west coast of the US, there’s California Women’s Music and Women Sound Off. Brandi Carlile, the Americana star who won […]
“It’s easy to lose yourself, or never find yourself” - Bruce Springsteen narrates in the trailer to the companion movie to his latest album, ‘Western Stars’, Vulture reports. He shares some thoughts, and is quite honest- “The older you get, the heavier that baggage becomes that you haven’t sorted through, so you run. I’ve done […]
"I’ve been kissed, touched, grabbed, licked, and held on to so I couldn’t physically walk away by ‘fans’ at my own gigs, and it honestly breaks my heart" - Hands Off Gretel’s frontwoman Lauren Tate writes in an open letter to Kerrang about sexual molestation of women at concerts. "It’s during the time when I’m […]
This week, Billie Eilish earned her first-ever No. 1 single with 'Bad Guy', ending Lil Nas X’s streak of 19 consecutive weeks at No. 1, which set an all-time record. She also became the first artist born in this century to top the Billboard Hot 100. Billboard...
Korn will play a virtual concert in MMORPG games AdventureQuest 3D and AdventureQuest Worlds, where characters will receive a “magical concert ticket” to attend the show, where they can pick up loot while battling monsters as the band plays, Kerrang reports. The event is free to play and new players can also attend, as new […]
The U.S. Department of Justice has taken Led Zeppelin’s side in the long-running copyright dispute that pits the writers of the group’s anthem 'Stairway to Heaven' against the publishers of the earlier song 'Taurus' by Spirit. The DOJ filed an amicus brief late Thursday supporting Zeppelin, stating, amongst other things, that the relevant portion of […]
NME hears the song as "hypnotic", with Natasha Khan moving "between husky, spoken word-style delivery in the verses and a melodic, falsetto-heavy chorus" (listen below). Her new album, ‘Lost Girls’, comes out September 6, and it, as she said, pays “homage to Los Angeles where the album was recorded, to being a kid in the […]
Nergal, frontman of the Polish black-metal band Behemoth, was kicked out of a YMCA gym in the US where Behemoth are currently on tour, because he was wearing a Darkthrone shirt, and the band were asked if they believed in Jesus Christ, Loudwire reports. "We don't, because we come from Poland, and we worship Odin. Just […]
“You can’t ‘magic’ one of these [Woodstocks] into happening, and that’s what they tried to do with this. It had nothing to do with anybody feeling good about each other. It had to do with certain people making a huge amount of money. That’s a grubby way to start in the first place. It’s not […]
Nobody will know whether the Agent King has left the building, since he is a spy, there's just an issue of him having a good mask. His former wife Priscilla Presley, who is the executive producer of the animated series, says that "from the time Elvis was a young boy, he always dreamed of being […]
Amy, Looking For Sugarman, Bird, Walk The Line, Whiplash, The Doors, Cabaret, Vox Lux, Pink Floyd: Live At Pompeii, Woodstock, Control (and more) - a very good choice made by Anna Calvi, Neil Tennant, Nadine Shah, Wayne Coyne, Nitin Sawhney and Anna Meredith for the Guardian.
Slipknot sold 118,00 equivalent album units last week of their newest release 'We Are Not Your Kind' in the US, which earned them a top Billboard 200 spot. Of that sum, 102,000 were in album sales. 'We Are Not Your Kind' is the first hard rock album to lead the Billboard 200 since Foo Fighters’ 'Concrete and Gold' […]
"‘Hold Me In,’ is the sound of someone gripping their emotions so hard that unprecedented waves of pain and beauty shoot out from between their fingers” - guitarist Ben Levin says of their newest single (watch video below). There's another thought he shared - “When everything seems to be falling apart around us, the path […]
“I hope to be playing eight-hour live shows one day" - New York veteran producer Nick Hook says about his new mix for the Fact Magazine (listen to ih here). That perfect show would be with all the phones "as far away as possible and [there would be] space that doesn’t exist for most of […]
Stereogum and Brooklyn Vegan made a very good choice of songs released this week (or is it just that the week was just rich witch good releases!?). There are, among many others: 'Nothing Is Safe' by the great experimental rap trio clipping.; 'Not', a "roiling, fraying rock", new song by Big Thief, coming on a […]
