"They fill the stage with noise, overwhelming grooves, songs constricting and then exploding around you. It’s one of those sounds that you think you can trace to a certain collection of antecedents, and yet sounds unlike anything anyone else is up to" - Stereogum says about London quartet Black Midi in their Band to Watch […]
Jenny Lewis is releasing her fourth album ‘On The Line’ on March 22 and it features Ryan Adams, who co-produced the record too. Lewis says she was thinking on not releasing in, since Adams was accused of sexual misconduct in the meantime, "but ultimately it’s my record. They’re my songs and this is a piece […]
Jay-Z-'s 2001 album, 'The Blueprint', is among the latest 25 selections for the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress, together with Curtis Mayfield's 'Super Fly', Cyndi Lauper's 'She's So Unusual', and 'The Best of Schoolhouse Rock'. Only seven other rap recordings have earned recognition by the National Recording Preservation Board - Gil Scott-Heron's […]
A nice list: Ariana Grande, Childish Gambino, Twenty One Pilots, The Strokes, J Balvin, Lil Wayne, The Chainsmokers, Meek Mill, Gary Clark Jr., Flume, Tame Impala, Janelle Monáe, Rosalía, Tenacious D, Yaeji, Slash, Gunna, Lil Baby, Lil Skies, Madeon, H.E.R., Hozier, 21 Savage, Death Cab For Cutie, The Revivalists, Maggie Rogers, co-founder Perry Farrell's Kind […]
Grimes has officially announced her upcoming album - the LP is titled 'Miss_Anthropocene' and Grimes described it on an Instagram post as “a concept album about the anthropomorphic goddess of climate Change.” “Each song will be a different embodiment of human extinction as depicted through a Pop star Demonology,” Grimes continued. No release date yet. […]
BBC Radio 3 announced elimination of two jazz shows, the long-running experimental music program 'Late Junction' going from three nights to one, and a world music program getting its run time cut in half, after which more than 500 figures from the music world have now signed an open letter, protesting the changes in the […]
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, the songwriting duo who originally wrote 'My Favorite Things' for the movie 'The Sound of Music', control 90 percent of the songwriting royalties to Ariana Grande’s '7 rings', which channels the melody from the musical. As a result of the deal, Concord, the publishing company who owns Rodgers and […]
The Woodstock 50 anniversary festival has announced a massive list of headliners including Jay-Z, Chance the Rapper, Dead & Company, The Killers, The Black Keys, Miley Cyrus, Robert Plant, Santana, Janelle Monae and more at the event running Aug. 16-18. Also joining the Watkins Glen, New York, festival billing are Halsey and The Raconteurs, The […]
'Shadows and Light', sort of melancholic, dramatic, goth-rock song by Saudade, a super-group fronted by Deftones' Chino Moreno and singer Chelsea Wolfe. It is a first new Saudade song in three years. Apart from the two, other Saudade member are guitarist Dr. Know (Bad Brains), keyboardist John Medeski (Medeski, Martin & Wood), ††† bassist Chuck […]
Houston rapper Travis Scott made 1,7 million dollars from February 8 concert at Los Angeles’ The Forum, which makes him only one of a few artists to have repeat sellouts at The Forum in a 12-month period. He also sold out shows on December 19 and 20. Travis now joins Garth Brooks, Juan Gabriel, The […]
Singer Karen O and producer Danger Mouse last week unveiled their collaborative album 'Lux Prima', and on monday they served as musical guests on 'Late Show with Stephen Colbert'. But it wasn't just another on-stage performance, they got a hand from director Spike Jonze who made a highly stylized video of their second single 'Woman'. […]
South Korean pop boy-band BTS has reportedly already sold over 2,6 million copies of it's new album 'Map of the Soul: Persona'. The septet’s upcoming album is said to have achieved this feat within five days of going on-sale March 13 for pre-orders ahead of its release on April 12, Billboard reports.
Fyre Fest merchandise is being auctioned to pay back part of the $26 million debt accrued by the event's founder Billy McFarland. "We have an assortment of the ‘real thing’ Fyre Festival-branded tee-shirts, sweatpants, sweatshirts, hats, wristbands and medallions,” stated a spokesman for the United States Marshals Service’s Manhattan office. “We know that there is […]
Scientists have revealed that playing hip-hop music while making cheese results in it having the ‘funkiest’ flavour. According to a study conducted by Swiss cheesemaker Beat Wampfler and a team of researchers from the Bern University of Arts, while hip-hop made it ‘funky’, cheese made whilst rocking out to Led Zeppelin or relaxed with Mozart […]
Philip Anselmo and his band The Illegals were slated to play two shows in New Zealand later this month, but in the wake of the recent massacre in the country, the gigs have been canceled due the Pantera former singer's past “white power” incident. In January 2016, Anselmo yelled "white power" and gave a Nazi […]
Singer and producer Andre Williams has passed away at the age of 82. The rhythm ‘n’ blues legend started his career in America in the 1950s. He found a home in Detroit's R&B scene and signed with the R&B label Fortune Records as a teenager. Williams fronted the 5 Dollars and issued hit solo tracks […]
Australian singer/songwriter Dean Lewis was named Apple Music's newest Up Next artist, after 6LACK, Juice WRLD, H.E.R., Bad Bunny, Billie Eilish, Khalid and Daniel Caesar had the honour. His debut album, 'A Place We Knew', is coming out on Friday, Billboard reports. Listen to his song 'Be Alright' here.
Grime music faces significant challenges because of discrimination against urban acts - despite the success of Stormzy, Dave and Skepta, it is often difficult for grime acts to play live, UK's members of parliament said in a report. Licensing authorities and police have been known to cancel gigs at short notice, affecting musicians' ability to […]
"This is the new face of scenes in 2019. Tiny enclaves of like-minded locals sharing a mutual, hermetically sealed party vibe all their own, caught forever at the initial spark stage of a national explosion that never comes... The mystique and magic of bubbling under, undiscovered, can last forever in a place like this, unspoilt […]
California rapper Juice WRLD opened at Number One on the Billboard 200 with his second album 'Death Race for Love'. The album has sold 165,000 total copies in its first week of release, including 120,000 streaming equivalent albums (SEAs), to give Juice WRLD his first Number One album after two separate trips to the Top […]
MySpace accidentally lost all the music uploaded between 2003-2015 in a server migration, losing over 50 million songs from 14 million artists. MySpace still boasts some 50 million users every year. NME...
“We have to separate the man and his humanity and his faults and failures ... from his genius,” said Riser, a Motown Records alum who wrote the orchestra parts and directed the strings and woodwind musicians for R. Kelly's 'I Believe I Can Fly'. James Walker Jr., an Atlanta-based entertainment attorney who has represented Rick […]
Progressive metal act Meytal made a cover of the Eagles classic 'Hotel California', due on April 5 on their new album 'The Witness'. The instrumentation is heavier and experimental the vocal (not too much) dramatic, and the song itself got a new touch. Listen to the song on SoundCloud. Band's drummer Meytal Cohen is famous […]
The guitarist Dick Dale, the pioneer of surf rock, affectionally known by many as 'The King of the Surf Guitar', has died age 81. Dale developed his distinctive sound by adding to instrumental rock influences from his Middle Eastern heritage, along with a “wet” reverb sound and his rapid alternative picking style. His most famous […]
Guardian picks out Doncaster-based 28-year-old Skinny Pelembe in their One to Watch section: "On his latest single, 'No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish', this unexpected mix of styles comes to the fore. Referencing the racism of 1950s British boarding houses, as well as Beardmore’s own experiences of xenophobia, the single also nods to London’s broken […]
Beto O'Rourke now is a suit-clad american presidential candidate, but years ago he was a skateboarding punk rocker playing in a band Foss with Cedric Bixler-Zavala, who went on to become lead singer of At The Drive-In and The Mars Volta. Back then O’Rourke also used to be a hacker - in the 1980s he […]
Guardian present new Jamaican reggae potential - Koffee: "She might be small, but the impact that Koffee has made on Jamaica and its reggae scene is mighty. She won single of the year at the Jamaica Music Industry Association awards for 'Toast', which has amassed more than four million streams on Spotify. 'Toast' is typical […]
The follow-up to last year’s 'Oxnard', 'Ventura' is due out April 12, and it features appearances from André 3000, Smokey Robinson, Brandy, the Late Nate Dogg, and more. Pitchfork...
From Drastus' monumental second LP to Mystifier's righteous comeback, to Venom Prison's evolution towards death metal infamy, and enthralling debut full-lengths from Devil Master, VLTIMAS, Heaume Mortal, and more, PopMatters' MetalMatters for march highlights a bounty of subversive brilliance.
BBC reports from The Queens of Art tour, which travels across eight UK cities and towns, and claims to be the first UK tour to feature a female line-up of rappers, musicians and DJs for every date.
