A week into November, the annual flood of new Christmas music is already well underway. Today it continues with an indie band’s cover of a beloved holiday classic. New York synth-pop favorites Nation Of Language, fresh off their appearance at Brooklyn’s first solar-powered concert, have released a new version of “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),” […]
BADBADNOTGOOD – “Poeira Cósmica” (Feat. Tim Bernardes)
BADBADNOTGOOD: It’s not just the state of the world today; it’s also a popular Toronto instrumental group! (I’m not trying not to do too much of that, but the lure of a stupid pun is something I can never resist.) Earlier this year, BADBADNOTGOOD released the second EP in their Mid Spiral series. Now, they’ve […]
Zach Bryan Shares “This World’s A Giant,” Allegedly Tries To Get Dave Portnoy’s Diss Track Taken Down
Zach Bryan’s got another one. The prolific country-rock megastar puts out a whole lot of music. His most recent album The Great American Bar Scene is just a few months old, and he recently teased another new song while announcing to the world that he’d broken up with his girlfriend. Bryan loves posting videos of […]
UMG Sues Believe And TuneCore For $500M For Distributing Sped-Up Songs To Evade Copyrights
Universal Music Group, the largest major-label conglomerate in existence, has joined forces with ABKCO Music & Records and Concord Music Group to file a huge copyright-infringement lawsuit against Believe SAS, the digital music company formerly known as Believe Music, and its subsidiary TuneCore. As Music Business Worldwide reports, UMG accuses Believe and TuneCore of “industrial-scale […]
Rats On Rafts – “Japanese Medicine”
Long-running Dutch post-punk outfit Rats On Rafts have announced a new era, and thus a new album: Deep Below. Following 2021’s Excerpts From Chapter 3: The Mind Runs A Net Of Rabbit Paths, the five-piece’s new work will be out in February. Today, they’re sharing a shimmery and melancholic lead single called “Japanese Medicine.” “‘Japanese […]
Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” Ties Record For Second Longest Running #1 Hit
Call a medic because everybody at the bar has now been getting tipsy for an historically long amount of time. Shaboozey’s genre-jumbling mega-hit “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a 16th nonconsecutive week, Billboard reports. That ties the record for the second longest stretch at #1. Lil Nas X […]
Deadbody & Tribal Gaze Share New Tracks From Upcoming Split LP
If you like heavy shit, please be advised that Deadbody, from California, and Tribal Gaze, from Texas, make the heaviest shit. Now, the two bands are joining forces to release a split LP of heavy shit. Both bands live at the place where hardcore and death metal overlap, and both are dropping absolutely disgusting riffage […]
Morrissey’s Dallas Show Ends Abruptly After Too Many People Crash The Stage For Hugs
Morrissey has put a brief moratorium on his bickering with former Smiths bandmate Johnny Marr and is now on a solo North American tour. He played in Dallas Saturday night, but the show was cut slightly short; during the encore song “First Of The Gang To Die,” concertgoers started flocking the stage to give Morrissey […]
Watch Hot Boys’ Original Lineup Reunite At Lil’ WeezyAna Fest
Lil Wayne’s star-making rap crew the Hot Boys have “reunited” a few times over the years, but with founding member B.G. having spent over a decade in prison, the lineup has always felt a little incomplete. B.G. was finally released in September 2023. So on Saturday at Wayne’s annual Lil’ WeezyAna Fest, the ’90s group […]
Watch Chappell Roan Debut New Song “The Giver” On SNL
We were not the only ones who thought it was about time for Chappell Roan to be the musical guest on SNL. She fulfilled her years-long dream by performing on the Nov. 2 episode — hosted by John Mulaney — and took the opportunity to debut a brand-new song called “The Giver.” A couple of […]