If you’re even a casual fan of the NBA, then you’re probably used to seeing Bay Area rap pioneer E-40 sitting courtside while the Golden State Warriors win championship after championship. On Saturday night, E-40 was ejected from his courtside seat during the first game of the Kings and Warriors’ round-one series in Sacramento. In […]
Bully – “Hard To Love”
In June, Bully (Alicia Bognanno) will release a new album, Lucky For You. We’ve already heard Bognanno’s Soccer Mommy collab, “Lose You,” and “Days Move Slow.” Today, Bognanno is back with another album preview called “Hard To Love,” which comes with a self-directed video. Here’s Bognanno on “Hard To Love”: Growing up never fitting into […]
Watch Gorillaz & Beck Perform “Possession Island” On Kimmel
Right now, we’re in that stretch between Coachella weekends, where a whole lot of big stars are in Southern California. Most of them don’t have too much to do, besides wondering if they’re going to get the call-up to replace Frank Ocean as Sunday night’s headliner. Inevitably, a few of them get book to perform […]
Liam Gallagher Weighs In On AI Oasis Album
The era of AI music is upon us. Over the weekend, a song featuring AI-generated vocals from Drake and the Weeknd went viral and then was pulled from streaming services by Universal Music Group, who condemned the track as “infringing content created with generative AI.” New Drake AI songs are already popping up, and that’s […]
Hannah Jadagu – “Admit It”
We’re one month away from the release of Aperture, the debut album from the New York-via-Texas singer and songwriter Hannah Jadagu. She’s already shared the early tracks “Say It Now,” “What You Did,” and “Warning Sign.” Today, Jadagu follows those tracks with the warm, loving “Admit It.” “Admit It” is a twinkling, sighing DIY synthpop […]
Oxbow – “1000 Hours”
Love’s Holiday, the new album from San Francisco experimental rock veterans Oxbow, is coming this summer. It’s the first Oxbow album in six years, it was co-produced by Joe Chiccarelli and Oxbox guitarist Niko Wenner, and it features today’s awesome lead single “1000 Hours” — a rumbling, wide-open landscape that sort of sounds like an […]
Rancid – “Tomorrow Never Comes”
Berkeley punk legends Rancid, literally my favorite band of all time, have never broken up or gone inactive, but they tend to go long stretches without releasing new music. Rancid’s last album was Trouble Maker, which came out way back in 2017. The band keeps touring, and its members keep themselves busy; just last month, […]
Sufjan Stevens, Timo Andres, & Conor Hanick – “Ekstasis”
Sufjan Stevens has a long history of writing music for ballets, and he’s about to release a new album of that music. Stevens has a long working relationship with the choreographer Justin Peck, and he’s released his scores for several of Peck’s dance pieces. The most recent was 2019’s Principia, and now Stevens is announcing […]
The Band’s Garth Hudson Gives Surprise Public Performance, First In Five Years
As a member of the legendary country-rock outfit the Band and beyond, Garth Hudson had a long career onstage. But he’s getting up there in years, and he doesn’t often perform anymore. So it was quite the special occurrence Sunday when Hudson, 85, made a surprise performance at a house show hosted by musician Sarah […]
Shop Talk – “Mirage Of Love”
There’s a new band of punk purists. Brooklyn’s Shop Talk are a three-piece act that take clear inspiration from punk’s first wave (think: the Damned, X, Buzzcocks) but update that aesthetic for 2023. On April 21, Shop Talk will share their debut EP, The Offering, via Mon Amie Records. It’s produced by Guided By Voices […]