If you’ve been paying attention to underground rap for the past decade or two, then you probably already knew that Open Mike Eagle is a great rapper. These days, he’s also distinguishing himself as a great podcaster. Mike’s show What Had Happened Was is currently in its third season. Every week, the veteran rap A&R […]
Latto – “Sunshine” (Feat. Childish Gambino & Lil Wayne)
Donald Glover finally brought Atlanta back to the airwaves for a third season last night, four years after the last one. But that wasn’t Glover’s only noteworthy pop-culture moment of the evening. At midnight, when the ascendant Atlanta rapper Latto’s new album 777 dropped, it featured an increasingly rare feature from Glover’s musical alter ego […]
Hear Three Tracks From Neil Young’s Upcoming Batch Of ’70s Live Albums
Neil Young has been in the news a lot lately as a proud anti-Spotify warrior, but he’s got other things going on, too. For years now, Young has been releasing a great deal of the music that he’s got in his archives. A few months ago, he finally dropped the previously unreleased 1987 album Summer […]
Kid Cudi – “Stars In The Sky”
Kid Cudi has maintained a side hustle as an actor ever since he appeared on a 2010 episode of One Tree Hill, but Cudi has truly been in a cinematic mindstate lately. Cudi recently starred in the Ti West horror film X, which is in theaters right now. Soon, Cudi will star in September 17th, […]
Stream Whitmer Thomas’ Jay Som-Produced Can’t Believe You’re Happy Here EP
In 2020, comedian Whitmer Thomas released his debut HBO special, The Golden Ones, which was accompanied by a soundtrack appropriately called Songs From The Golden Ones. Today, he’s back with a new EP of stripped-down songs, Can’t Believe You’re Happy Here, which was produced by Jay Som’s Melina Duterte. It also includes contributions from Great […]
The Rolling Stones Announce Live Album Of Surprise 1977 Toronto Club Shows
In March of 1977 — a year after they released Black And Blue and a year before they released Some Girls — the Rolling Stones played a pair of secret shows at the El Mocambo, a Toronto club with a capacity of about 300. The Stones, billed as the Cockroaches, were they surprise openers for […]
Stream Destroyer’s New Album Labyrinthitis & Listen To Our New Callin Me Maybe On All Things Bejar
Labyrinthitis is not just the new Destroyer album. According to Dan Bejar, it’s also the final installment in a trilogy, the culmination of what he’s been building toward on prior albums Ken and Have We Met. It’s definitely my personal favorite of Bejar’s recent synth-driven experiments, grand and poppy yet wordy and idiosyncratic as ever. […]
Craig Finn – “Messing With The Settings”
It’s been just over a year since the Hold Steady released their excellent Open Door Policy and Craig Finn is already on to the next one. Finn will release his fifth solo album A LEGACY OF RENTALS in May. It was produced by his longtime collaborator Josh Kaufman of Bonny Light Horseman fame and engineered […]
Channel Tres – “Acid In My Blood” & “Ganzfeld Experiment”
It’s only March, but Channel Tres is already starting to promote his Coachella set. The producer and performer — who is now calling his blend of West Coast rap and Detroit/Chicago house beats “Compton house” — is back today with two new songs billed as an early teaser for next month’s festivities in Indio. “Acid […]
Cassandra Jenkins – “Pygmalion”
Last year, the great New York singer and songwriter Cassandra Jenkins released her stunning LP An Overview On Phenomenal Nature, one of our favorite albums of the year. She also came out with a companion-piece record and a couple of covers. Today, as part of the celebration surrounding Secretly Canadian’s 25th anniversary, Jenkins has come […]