The Cure will soon release a 30th anniversary deluxe edition of 1992’s Wish, their most commercially successful album. (It’s the one that features “Friday I’m In Love,” and it arrived after a decade-plus of legacy-building within the “college rock” sphere, just as “alternative” rock was becoming a mainstream proposition.) The reissue includes 24 previously unreleased […]
Lil Tjay Addresses His Shooting On New Single “Beat The Odds”
A couple of months ago, the 21-year-old Bronx singer and rapper Lil Tjay was shot seven times in New Jersey. Tjay survived the shooting, though he’s got a long recovery ahead of him. Earlier this week, Tjay made his first public statement since the shooting, thanking his fans and well-wishers in an Instagram video. Today, […]
Bartees Strange – “Gang Signs” (Freddie Gibbs & ScHoolboy Q Cover)
Bartees Strange’s music has always mixed and matched genres, blending elements of indie rock and hip-hop among other sounds. Today he gives us one of his more straightforward genre melds: an acoustic rendition of a rap song. As an Amazon exclusive, Bartees has covered last year’s Freddie Gibbs/ScHoolboy Q collab “Gang Signs.” He manages to […]
Stream JID’s Excellent New Album The Forever Story
The world was a very different place in November 2018. That’s when the furiously talented young Atlanta rapper JID released DiCaprio 2, his last full-length project. Four years is an eternity in rap music, but JID has never disappeared. Instead, he’s been releasing stunning one-off tracks and annihilating his guest features for a long time, […]
Miya Folick – “Bad Thing”
Miya Folick has spent this year slowly trickling out songs from her new EP 2007. They’ve been good songs, too, a trend that continues with today’s new offering. The synth-led “Bad Thing” is a bit like Angel Olsen if she’d burrowed deeper into effervescent pop sounds rather than the rootsy, organic path she’s been treading. […]
Noah Cyrus – “Every Beginning Ends” (Feat. Ben Gibbard)
Here’s a collab that feels like a flex on the part of both parties. On the latest single from her debut full-length The Hardest Part, Noah Cyrus joins forces with Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard. Recorded in Seattle at Gibbard’s studio, “Every Beginning Ends” is a soft acoustic ballad tinged with pedal steel, […]
Stream DJ Khaled’s New Album God Did Feat. Drake, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Eminem, & More
It’s DJ Khaled album time again, and he’s rounded up another startling array of superstar rappers for the occasion. God Did, out today, begins by stacking up some of the most popular MCs in recent memory. First there’s a song with Drake (not the Bee Gees-interpolating “Staying Alive” with Lil Baby, which is also here). […]
Elton John & Britney Spears – “Hold Me Closer”
Elton John and Britney Spears have released a new song, “Hold Me Closer.” The duet is Spears’ first single in six years and her first music since being released from a conservatorship this past November. News of the song started circulating last month after reports emerged that John and Spears had met at a Beverly […]
Lowertown – “Bucktooth”
The young Atlanta bedroom-pop duo Olivia Osby and Avsha Weinberg, aka Lowertown, are signed to Dirty Hit, the British record label that brought you the 1975, Rina Sawayama, and beabadoobee. In October, they’ll release their debut album I Love To Lie, which features today’s new single “Bucktooth.” The song’s built around ramshackle guitar chords and […]
Future Teens – “Team Sports” (Feat. The Wonder Years’ Dan Campbell)
Future Teens are releasing a new album, Self Help, next month. We’ve heard “Same Difference” and “BYOB” from it so far, and today they’re back with another track, “Team Sports,” which features backing vocals from Dan Campbell of the Wonder Years toward the end of the song. “That last chorus was originally a wordless, rock […]