Almost exactly one year ago, Geese frontman Cameron Winter released Heavy Metal, his solo debut. That album quickly became a cult sensation, and the energy right behind that record led us right into Geese’s Getting Killed, our favorite album of the year. On Thursday night, Winter played a solo gig at Carnegie Hall, in his […]
Timothée Chalamet Won’t Say Whether He’s Really EsDeeKid
There’s this UK rapper named EsDeeKid, right? White kid from Liverpool. Always wears a mask. Thick accent. Raps over the glitchy, twitchy UK underground beats that are currently picking up all kinds of buzz online. EsDeeKid hasn’t been making music for a long time, but he makes a lot of it. In his videos, he’s […]
Sassy 009 – “Mirrors” (Feat. yunè pinku)
Right now, there’s a lot of pop music that’s been scattered and refracted to hell and back. You know what I’m talking about — vocals fed through 19 layers of Auto-Tune, beats that sound like the vibrating thing inside a PS5 controller. That music is often interesting, but it rarely touches my soul. The Norwegian […]
Roger Daltrey Knighted
Life is crazy. One day, you sing a song where you’re like, “Hope I die before I’m knighted in the king’s birthday honours list,” and then bam, decades later, you’re knighted in the king’s birthday honours list. As of yesterday, the Who frontman Roger Daltrey is now the Who frontman Sir Roger Daltrey. As The […]
Watch The Trailer For Charli XCX’s Brat Mockumentary The Moment
Besides recording a soundtrack album for Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights, Charli XCX has quite a few onscreen film roles coming up. But the Charli XCX movie is The Moment, a new mockumentary sending up her experience during the Brat album cycle. The Moment was first announced as an A24 movie “based on an […]
Fatboy Slim’s Rolling Stones Mashup Released After 27 Years
Records show that way back in 1998, during a set he was DJing in Ibiza, Norman Cook spun a track called “Satisfaction Skank” — a mashup of his big beat Fatboy Slim hit from that year, “Rockafeller Skank,” with the Rolling Stones’ “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” He discussed the track in a 2024 video […]
Taylor Swift Can’t Even Pick Her Top Five Taylor Swift Songs
Taylor Swift is embarrassing. Her greatest fans will concede that Taylor Swift is a fundamentally embarrassing person. Sometimes, it’s part of the appeal. Sometimes, it’s just something that you have to work through. Do you know how embarrassing it is to be the person who likes the Taylor Swift album that everyone else hates? It […]
The 10 Best Hardcore Albums Of 2025
One band absolutely dominated the hardcore conversation this year, and they did it by working way, way harder than anyone else. Affable Boston bruisers Haywire spent 2025 playing sweaty, cathartic, extremely fun live shows in every VFW Hall and skate park from sea to shining sea. Within 12 months, they rocked venues in all 50 […]
Billie Eilish’s James Cameron-Co-Directed Concert Film Gets First Trailer
Billie Eilish’s latest collab is with James Cameron. Over the summer during one of her concerts in Manchester, Eilish told the audience that she was working on an exciting new project, and though she wasn’t allowed to say too much about it at the time, the abundance of movie cameras in the venue was a […]
alt-J’s Joe Newman Releases Debut Solo Album The Canyon
Time was you couldn’t go a day without hearing about the electronic-leaning English art-rock band alt-J, but they’ve kept relatively quiet since the release of 2022’s The Dream. It turns out Joe Newman, whose gnarled Dave-Matthews-as-a-goblin vocals contributed to alt-J’s unique signature sound, has been spending some of that time working on his debut solo […]