Blink-182 have released a new song called “Quarantine,” which was evidently written over the last few months. The group’s most recent full-length was 2019’s Nine. “Quarantine, fuck this disease,” goes the chorus of the new track. “I’d rather be on Star Tours or stuck at the DMV/ Quarantine, no not for me/ I thought that […]
The Weeknd & Juice WRLD – "SMILE"
The Weeknd has released a collaboration with the late rapper Juice WRLD, who died last year at the age of 21. It’s called “Smile,” and it comes on the heels of Juice’s posthumous album Legends Never Die, which came out last month and spent two weeks at the top of the Billboard album chart. In […]
Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion – "WAP"
There was a time when Cardi B was talking about following up her radio-saturating, Grammy-winning, altogether world-conquering 2018 debut album Invasion Of Privacy within less than a year. That didn’t happen, but it looks like it may be happening now, beginning with the release of “WAP,” a new collab with Cardi’s fellow ascendant rap superstar […]
Ziemba – "If I'm Being Honest" & "True Romantic"
[Mad Men spoilers ahead. If you haven’t watched Mad Men by now, I don’t know what’s wrong with you, but consider this your warning.] One of the most iconic burns on Mad Men, a series full of iconic burns, belongs to Dr. Faye Miller, Don Draper’s season 4 love interest. Upon learning he’s ending their […]
Stream The Microphones’ New Album Microphones In 2020
Phil Elverum is returning to his beloved Microphones moniker for Microphones In 2020, a new album that consists entirely of one 44-minute track. As our very own Chris DeVille wrote in his lovely Album Of The Week review, Microphones In 2020 is “one lengthy rumination that functions as a poem, essay, memoir, folk song, and […]
Flatbush Zombies – "Afterlife" (Prod. James Blake)
Flatbush Zombies released their Now, More Than Ever EP in June, and they’re already back with new music today. “Afterlife” is even more exciting than your average Zombies drop, too, because it’s produced by none other than James Blake. Maybe that’s why they promoted it with a billboard in Denver and a “red carpet extravaganza” […]
Prince – “Cosmic Day”
It seems like we’ll be excavating Prince’s vault of unreleased music for years and years to come. The late musician’s estate recently announced a massive deluxe reissue of Sign O’ The Times, his 1987 double-album opus culled from the sessions for three different shelved projects, and it comes with a whopping 45 previously unreleased studio […]
A Certain Ratio – "Yo Yo Gi"
At the end of June, the arty English post-punk vets A Certain Ratio announced a new album called ACR Loco. Following last year’s career-spanning retrospective ACR:BOX, it’s their first collection of new music in 12 years. So far we’ve heard the airy “Always In Love,” and today the group’s back with another preview of the […]
Magik Markers Announce New Album '2020': Hear "CDROM"
Last month, Magik Markers, the psychedelic noise-rock trio from New England, returned from a long hiatus with their EP Isolated From Exterior Time: 2020. It was their first new release in six years. But as it turned out, that was just the beginning. Today, Magik Markers have announced that they’ve got a whole new album, […]
Jamila Woods – “SULA (Paperback)”
Every song on Jamila Woods’ last album, last year’s great LEGACY! LEGACY!, was inspired by a different iconic artist of color: “Zora,” “Eartha,” “Baldwin.” Today, the soulful Chicago R&B singer and poet is back with her first new song since then, “SULA (Paperback),” named after Toni Morrison’s 1973 novel Sula. As Woods explains: It’s the […]