It’s been quite a while since we’ve heard from Sacred Paws. The Glasgow/London duo of Ray Aggs and Eilidh Rodgers made some buzz with their 2017 debut album Strike A Match and its 2019 follow-up Run Around The Sun, making a unique brand of arty post-punk with a sunny Afrobeat flair. This week, Sacred Paws […]
Bob Dylan Responds To Backup Dancer Who Says She Was Told Not To Make Eye Contact
It was true a few weeks ago, and it’s still true today: Dylan be tweetin’. Yes, the real Bob Dylan is posting messages to his formerly management-controlled account on x dot com. The other day he tweeted about attending a Nick Cave concert in Paris, which is not as mind-blowing a thought as Bob Dylan […]
Posthumous Mac Miller Album Balloonerism Announced
Mac Miller was sitting on a lot of unreleased music when he died unexpectedly at 26 in 2018. We’ve heard a bit of it in the form of some one-off tracks, some Madlib sets, and the 2020 album Circles, which was a companion piece to his final LP Swimming. Today, the rapper’s family has announced […]
Gridiron – “Talk Real”
Earlier this summer, the thunderously ignorant, rap-inflected hardcore band Gridiron were selling Charli XCX parody shirts. It had the Brat green and the font, but it said “Grid.” If you saw that shirt out in the wild, would you get it? Does anyone even refer to Gridiron as just “Grid”? It’s so stupid! I love […]
Molly Burch – “It’s Christmas Time (Again)”
At this point, nobody is too cool to make Christmas music. The Los Angeles indie-pop singer-songwriter Molly Burch was way ahead of everyone else on that. Burch released her Daydreamer LP last year, and she dropped an entire Christmas album called The Molly Burch Christmas Album back in 2019, and she followed it with the […]
Bartees Strange – “Xmas”
Bartees Strange is in the middle of rolling out his new album Horror, but he’s taking a break from that today to give us a great new holiday single. “Xmas” finds Strange tapping into that Mk.gee/1975 guitar sound and borrowing some melodic phrasing from Donny Hathaway’s “This Christmas” in service of pure, uncut seasonal melancholia. […]
Elvis Costello Releases Album & Plays Colbert With T Bone Burnett, Announces Tour With Steve Nieve
Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett first worked together in 1985, when they released “The People’s Limousine,” a single that was credited to the Coward Brothers, those guys’ fictional alter-egos. A year later, Burnett co-produced Costello’s recently-reissued classic King Of America. It took nearly 40 years, but Costello and Burnett have now made a full […]
fish narc – “my ceiling”
The Olympia, Washington musician Ben Funkhouser, better known as fish narc, is a key member of GothBoiClique, the storied emo-rap crew. He was one of the late GBC leader Lil Peep’s go-to producers, and he’s done a lot of work across genres, including collaborations with late post-punker the Soft Moon. Over the years, fish narc […]
Paul Simon Has Only 6% Hearing In One Ear, Working With Researchers Who’ve Successfully Treated Hearing Loss In Zebrafish
At 83, Paul Simon is a living legend of American popular music. Simon has remained artistically active later in life, but he’s been suffering from catastrophic hearing loss in the past few years. Simon has been open about his problems with hearing, which helped inspire his most recent record, last year’s Seven Psalms. This morning, […]
Everything Is Recorded – “Losing You” (Feat. Sampha, Laura Groves, Jah Wobble, & Yazz Ahmed)
Richard Russell came aboard at the London label XL Recordings in the early ’90s, when it released “The Bouncer,” the rave anthem from his duo Kicks Like A Mule. Since then, Russell ascended to label-boss status and oversaw XL as it became a fixture in many different forms of left-of-center music. Since 2017, Russell has […]