Joji, the Japanese internet personality and musician who makes fluid, depressive R&B as part of the Asian rap collective 88Rising, just dropped his second album Nectar today. There are a bunch of high profile guests and producers on it, including Diplo, Lil Yachty, Kenny Beats, and Clams Casino. But perhaps the most exciting feature for […]
Mil-Spec Release Furious, Excellent Debut LP 'World House': Stream
There’s a certain kind of hardcore that just punches you right in the soul. That’s the kind that Mil-Spec make. Mil-Spec, a Toronto band that’s been putting out music since 2018, have a raw and emotive style. They can be melodic and even pretty, but they can also riff like monsters. Frontman Andre Peden has […]
Vin Diesel Is Out Here Making Tropical House Music On Kygo’s Label
Vin Diesel’s past musical exploits are the stuff of internet legend. There’s the time he celebrated Valentine’s Day by singing Rihanna. There’s the time he danced to “Drunk In Love” on Facebook. There’s the time he sang Stan Smith for a British radio station. There’s the time Steve Aoki promised his Vin Diesel collab would […]
Van Morrison's First Anti-Lockdown Anthem Is Here
After issuing a garbled and confusing statement last month about the “pseudo-science” surrounding COVID-19, in recent days Van Morrison has made it abundantly clear what he meant. The music legend announced last week that he was planning to release a series of singles condemning the “fascist” lockdown policies designed to combat the spread of coronavirus, […]
Tory Lanez Released A Whole Album About The Megan Thee Stallion Shooting Story
The entire saga of Tory Lanez and Megan Thee Stallion continues to get sadder and weirder. In July, Megan Thee Stallion was shot multiple times outside a party at Kylie Jenner’s house. The same night, LA police arrested Tory Lanez on a concealed weapons charge. Witness reports claimed that Tory had shot Megan in the […]
Tame Impala – "Borderline (Blood Orange Remix)"
Tame Impala went on Fallon earlier this week to perform their Slow Rush single “Borderline.” Now the track is getting a new remix from Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes, who recruited Porches’ Aaron Maine to play drums on his take on the song, which re-imagines it as something a bit spacier and groovier. It’s the second […]
Lana Del Rey & Matt Maeson – "Hallucinogenics"
In the theoretical near-future, Lana Del Rey is releasing a new album called Chemtrails Over The Country Club, as has been promised now for almost a year. But before that happens she has lent her voice to a new version of “Hallucinogenics,” a song by the Virginia-bred musician Matt Maeson, who released his debut album […]
Stream Prince's 'Sign O’ The Times' Deluxe Edition Featuring 63 Previously Unreleased Tracks
After a summer’s worth of build-up, the Prince estate and Warner Records have released the expansive deluxe edition of Prince’s 1987 double album Sign O’ The Times. It contains 63 previously unreleased tracks, all culled from Prince’s vault. Some of them are from the trio of scrapped albums that Prince made around that time — […]
Travis Scott – "FRANCHISE" (Feat. Young Thug & M.I.A.)
Travis Scott has spent the past month promoting his new McDonald’s collaboration, but before that he had a new song, “The Plan,” which was featured in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, one of the only new movies to come out in theaters this summer. Tenet is still in theaters in the parts of the world that have […]
The Smashing Pumpkins – "Confessions Of A Dopamine Addict" & "Wrath"
Last week, the Smashing Pumpkins officially announced their new double album, CYR, after sharing two songs from it, the title track and “The Colour Of Love,” last month. Today, they’re back with another pair of songs from CYR: “Confessions Of A Dopamine Addict” and “Wrath.” In conjunction with the new album, Billy Corgan has created […]