2025 was the year of Chuquimamani-Condori, and not just because they teamed with their brother Joshua Chuquimia Crampton for a phenomenal debut album as Los Thuthanaka. The artist also known as DJ E also showed out on Edits, which applied some of that reality-altering magic to a bunch of existing hits. There were some pop-country […]
Watch Harry Styles Cover Tears For Fears In The BBC Live Lounge
On Friday, big-deal pop star Harry Styles released his long-awaited new album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. The world was really hoping that record would be more interesting than it is. Nevertheless! Styles is in full promo-blitz mode right now. He performed at the BRITs. He played a Manchester show that streamed live on […]
New Shane MacGowan Tribute Album Features Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Jesus And Mary Chain, & More
In late 2023, the music world was shaken by the death of the Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan. Now, Bruce Springsteen, the Jesus And Mary Chain, Primal Scream, and more are teaming up for a tribute album called 20th Century Paddy – The Songs Of Shane MacGowan, out in November. The Boss’ cover of the 1990 […]
Lauren Auder – “no outline”
In January, Lauren Auder announced her new, evocatively titled album Whole World As Vigil. The London-based singer-songwriter and producer shared the super catchy “praxis,” which followed October’s “yes.” Now she’s back with the sprawling, revelatory “no outline.” “‘no outline’ is the most literal track on the record in some regards, when going through a major breakup […]
Stream Liv.e & Karriem Riggins’ Debut Album As GENA The Pleasure Is Yours
Back in December, we learned the Dallas psychedelic soul singer/rapper/producer Liv.e was teaming up with veteran jazz drummer and hip-hop producer Karriem Riggins for an album under the name GENA. It’s an acyonym standing for God Energy, Naturally Amazing and also a reference to Gina from Martin, all of which should help you triangulate where […]
Frozen Soul Announce New Album No Place Of Warmth: Hear The Title Track Feat. Gerard Way
Frozen Soul have announced their third album, No Place Of Warmth. The followup to 2023’s Glacial Domination arrives in May, and today the Dallas death metal outfit is unleashing the title track featuring My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way. Vocalist Chad Green says “No Place Of Warmth” is “about life at its coldest and the choice […]
Yeat & EsDeeKid Made A Bad Song And Shot The Video At Drake’s Mansion
Is the EsDeeKid thing already over? I hope it’s not. If it was, it was fun while it lasted. Last year, the masked Liverpool rapper EsDeeKid emerged out of the UK underground with a hard, energetic style. He rapped in incredibly short bursts over blown-out, psychedelic lo-fi beats, and he leaned hard into his accent. […]
Angèle – “What You Want” (Feat. Justice)
Belgian singer Angèle, who performed with Phoenix and Kavinsky at the Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony, has linked up with French electro monoliths Justice for a new song called “What You Want.” I think it’s supposed to be sexy and suspenseful, but it’s sort of mediocre. The bass is fuzzy, and the synths are neon-lit, but […]
Fred again.. Debuts New Harry Styles Song “Coming Up Roses”
Harry Styles’ new album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally arrives next week. So far the pop giant has shared the atmospheric lead single “Aperture,” and tonight Fred again.. debuted the track “Coming Up Roses” during his concert in London. Styles and Fred again.. were once spotted together in London back in August 2024, but […]
big long sun Announce New Album love songs and spiritual recollections: Hear “call it a voice”
big long sun are a Brighton-based eight-piece — Mina-Mae Alexander, Jamie Broughton, Ocean Goucher, Zofia Szymanowska, Oliver Parkes, Tom Gregory, Malte Henning, and Robert Smyth — that make “sonic bedroom art rock pop noises … for dreaming.” That last bit is real important to their loose-limbed folk oeuvre. Their latest single “call it a voice” […]