"You can hear a band pushing past their boundaries with striking results" - Guardian's Alexis Petridis says of his Album of the Week choice, Vampire Weekend's 'Father of the Bride'. "The lyrics occasionally suggest that the musical restlessness is meant to mirror the uncertainty of the world in 2019, but ultimately 'Father of the Bride' […]
A fan-made memorial was created at the site where Nipsey Hussle was gunned down in Los Angeles in front of his Marathon Clothing store, but location has become chaotic because of a high number of people attempting to make money off the grieving public, TMZ reports. There were people selling bootleg t-shirts with Nipsey's image, […]
The Harley in Sheffield, the Maze in Nottingham, the Victoria Inn in Derby, have been closed recently, or are about to close, and they are just examples of a big trend - in January 2018, industry body UK Music estimated that 35% of venues across the country had closed in the preceding decade. On top […]
Female artists are not just topping charts; they’re also challenging and expanding the limits of hip-hop - Consequence of Sounds writes, and picks out the 10 most crucial female rappers now: very much pop hip-hop Megan Thee Stallion, emo-rapper 070 Shake, blues musician turned rapper Lizzo, poetic rapper Noname, provocative Cupcakke, daughter of a rapper […]
"Electronic music can echo genuine emotional experiences - often by combining the organic and the synthetic. In the case of Model Man, their heartfelt, often profoundly beautiful electronic music, features the piano as its beating heart with all the arterial electronics and ventricular beats coursing from it" - PopMatters reviews new album by UK band. […]
The Quietus was in Malmö, Sweden to check out the fifth instalment of Intonal Festival - "The organisers have very little interest in commercial concerns, choosing instead to celebrate the weird, the underground and the experimental by showcasing artists who are challenging the ways music can be produced and experienced. And they do this in […]
On the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, art historian Martin Kemp has collaborated with early music singers I Fagiolini to create a tour and album centred on da Vinci's musicianship, Guardian reports. Da Vinci played a kind of fat violin called the lira da braccio, for which there were not even written scores, […]
Drake got 12 Billboard Music Awards yesterday, including the biggest prize of the night - the award for top artist - beating the likes of Cardi B, Ariana Grande, Post Malone and Travis Scott. Drake also won top male artist, top streaming songs artist, top rap artist and top Billboard 200 album for Scorpion as […]
Folk-rock quartet Big Thief have a new album 'U.F.O.F.' out on Friday, and it's Stereogum's pick for this week's Album of the Week. At the basis of the album stands "lead songwriter Adrianne Lenker now widely regarded as one of the most technically skilled and lyrically incisive musicians to emerge over the past five years. […]
Heavy metal topped all other genres in 2018 in increased streams and downloads in 2018 from the previous year, according to music distribution company TuneCore. Streams and downloads at Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon, and more than 150 other music streaming and download services, that are home to 250,000 artists, totaled 199.3 billion in 2018, an […]
