Last year, Taylor Swift offered a preview of her re-recorded version of “This Love” (originally on 2014’s 1989) in the trailer for Prime Video’s The Summer I Turned Pretty series. Now, ahead of the release of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), which drops July 7, Swift has teased a bit of the rerecorded “Back To December,” […]
Watch Insane Clown Posse’s Violent J And His Girlfriend On The Reality Show Love Don’t Judge
Love Don’t Judge is an online reality show that appears to be about semi-scandalous romantic relationships. A new episode published today features Joe Bruce, aka Insane Clown Posse’s Violent J, and his girlfriend Sarah Russi. The clip explores the age gap between them: Joe is 51, while Sarah is 30, thus the episode title, “My […]
Drake And 21 Savage Delay US Tour Again
In March, Drake announced a North American tour — his first in five years — with 21 Savage opening. It was originally supposed to start in the middle of June, but in April, Drake delayed the start of the tour, moving shows set for New Orleans, Nashville, Houston, Dallas, Miami, and Atlanta back a few […]
Blur – “St. Charles Square”
Last month, Blur announced their first new album in eight years, The Ballad Of Darren, and introduced it with lead single “The Narcissist.” Not long after, they played some warm-up shows where they did live rarities and debuted a couple of new songs. One of those songs was “St. Charles Square,” which they’re releasing as […]
Gunn Truscinski Nace – “Tape”
Three big dogs in the realm of improvisational experimental music recently got together to make an album. Guitar virtuoso Steve Gunn has already made a few records with drummer and keyboardist John Truscinski as the Gunn-Truscinski Duo. For the new LP Glass Band, the two of them worked with Bill Nace, Kim Gordon’s partner in […]
UNKLE Announce First US Shows In 13 Years
UNKLE, the long-running and collaboration-heavy project from Mo’Wax label founder James Lavelle, will probably always be best-known for Psyence Fiction, the classic 1998 album that Lavelle and DJ Shadow recorded with guests like Thom Yorke, Mike D, and Richard Ashcroft. But Lavelle has kept UNKLE going without Shadow since then, and the project has just […]
Bad History Month – “Breakdown Lane”
Next week, Bad History Month are releasing the True Delusion EP, which the Philadelphia-based project introduced with “Over The Hills” a couple weeks back. Today, we’re getting another single, the fuzzy and squalling “Breakdown Lane.” “It’s about being really bummed out,” Sean Sprecher offers up. “Life has passed you by and day by day continues […]
Stream Massachusetts Hardcore Band Adrienne’s Heavy-As-Hell New EP Summer’s Beginning
In 2021, the Massachusetts heavy hardcore band Adrienne crushed a whole lot of skulls with their self-titled debut EP. Adrienne’s sound has the intensity and dynamic range that bands like Integrity introduced in the ’90s. They’re ominous and brutal at the same time, and they radiate total sincerity in their riff-crunch freakouts. I haven’t seen […]
Ghost Train Orchestra & Kronos Quartet Announce New Moondog Tribute Album Feat. Jarvis Cocker, Rufus Wainwright, Marissa Nadler, & More
Ghost Train Orchestra and Kronos Quartet have arranged a Moondog tribute album, Songs And Symphoniques: The Music Of Moondog, which will be released on September 29. “The first Moondog record I heard was the 1969 orchestra record simply titled Moondog,” Ghost Train Orchestra’s Brian Carpenter said in a statement. “Its cover featured a very striking […]
Mac Krol (Mike Krol & Mac McCaughan) – “For Some Other Reason”
Mike Krol and Mac McCaughan have teamed up for a new project called Mac Krol, and they’re releasing a 7-inch featuring three songs that they worked on together next month via Merge. The songs have a long history: Krol started them back in 2015 when he was recording Turkey with his band but soon discarded […]