Rico Nasty, like a true pop star, will never stop never stopping. Today, following her recently one-off singles “Hard,” “IDGAF,” and last month’s “Lightning,” she’s back with another new track, the sing-songy “Popstar.” “Popstar, rockstar, popstar, rockstar,” she repeats in the chorus. Listen and watch the accompanying music video below.
Charli XCX – "Forever"
Charli XCX released her last album, the half-self-titled Charli, last September. Though she’s often prolific, whether in output under her own name or with frequent collaborations, it still wouldn’t have seemed likely that we’d be getting a new Charli XCX album so soon. (Though given that Charli was one of the best albums of 2019, […]
Masterpiece Machine – “Rotting Fruit”
About a year and a half ago, Fucked Up came out with Dose Your Dreams, a wild and off-kilter album that moved the band away from its hardcore roots, into some straight-up disco directions. The two Fucked Up members most responsible for that album’s sound, multi-instrumentalist Mike Haliechuk and drummer Jonah Falco, recently went off […]
Alison Mosshart – "Rise"
In all her years howling out front of such esteemed rock ‘n’ roll bands as the Kills and the Dead Weather, Alison Mosshart has never released music under her own name. That changes with today’s release of Mosshart’s debut solo single, “Rise.” Mosshart began sketching out the idea for “Rise” back in 2013: “I didn’t […]
Neil Young – "Shut It Down 2020"
Neil Young has been keeping himself busy in quarantine. The legendary folk-rocker and his wife Daryl Hannah have been periodically inviting us into their cozy home in Telluride, Colorado for Young’s acoustic Fireside Sessions series. And now he’s recorded a new version of “Shut It Down,” a song from last year’s Colorado album with Crazy […]
Hayley Williams – “My Friend”
Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams appears to be on a mission to drop every single song from her forthcoming solo debut before the actual album comes out. Williams will release her album Petals For Armor next month, and she has now shared eight of its songs — a five-track sampler EP, followed by “Over Yet” and […]
awakebutstillinbed – "Me" (The 1975 Cover)
The San Jose emo Band To Watch awakebutstillinbed named their debut album what people call low self-esteem is really just seeing yourself the way that other people is see you, so it will not surprise you at all to learn they’ve covered a song by the 1975. Not one from I like it when you […]
Rogue Wave – "Aesop Rock"
Earlier this year, indie-rap veteran Aesop Rock released a standalone single called “Rogue Wave.” Indie-rock veterans Rogue Wave noticed. And now the Oakland band have returned from a two year-hiatus with a response, a new track of their own called “Aesop Rock.” With the release of “Aesop Rock,” Rogue Wave are asking fans to donating […]
Washed Out – "Too Late"
Washed Out, the chillwave-pioneering synthpop project of Georgia native Ernest Greene, has just shared a new song called “Too Late.” And although the planned music video shoot for the track had to be cancelled in the wake of the pandemic, Greene ended up with a surplus of crowd-sourced footage after putting a call out to […]
Gorillaz – "Aries" (Feat. Peter Hook & Georgia)
After Damon Albarn revived Gorillaz with 2017’s Humanz, the project has been pretty consistently active. The Now Now quickly followed in 2018, and then in the beginning of this year Gorillaz began teasing something called Song Machine. The premise: a direct feed of new “episodes,” or singles, featuring a characteristically broad array of collaborators and […]