There were a whole lotta red and blue lights (sorry) at Playboi Carti’s Brooklyn pop-up show Saturday night. The enigmatic rapper, fresh off announcing new album Music and beefing with Lucki, was hosting a public birthday party for himself (announced the day before) at Brooklyn Warehouse in Crown Heights when cops showed up and shut […]
Pharrell Cancels Something In The Water Festival Hours After Tickets Go On Sale
It’s a rough week for Pharrell Williams. On Tuesday, his Lego movie premiere was crashed by PETA protestors; on Wednesday, he revealed that he and Neptunes bandmate Chad Hugo are not on speaking terms since their legal battle. On Friday, the musician’s festival Something In The Water commenced ticket sales, and then he canceled it […]
Jane’s Addiction Show Ends In Fight, Perry Farrell’s Wife Offers Explanation
Jane’s Addiction recently launched a reunion tour with their classic lineup — Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Stephen Perkins, and Eric Avery — with support from Love & Rockets. It’s already yielded their first new music together since 1990. Navarro has said an album is “more than likely.” But last night in Boston, their show ended […]
Shooter Jennings Has Made An Album With Right-Wing Hollywood Pariah James Woods
“Nyah… I’m not a singer.” Remember that? In 1994, James Woods played himself on a classic Simpsons episode. He gets a job at the Kwik-E Mart to prepare for a role, and an armed robber, who recognizes Woods, inexplicably tells him that his next song will be #3 with a bullet. Well, James Woods is […]
Miya Folick – “La Da Da”
Last year, Miya Folick released her second album Roach. Since then, the singer-songwriter covered Annie Lennox, collaborated with Skinny Atlas, and contributed to The Buccaneers soundtrack. Today, she’s unveiling the catchy new tune “La Da Da.” “I wrote ‘La Da Da’ in a period when I was actively pulling away from a pace of life […]
Lil Wayne Says Not Landing Super Bowl Gig “Hurt A Whole Lot… It Broke Me”
Earlier this week, Kendrick Lamar was announced as the headliner of next year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show. The decision sparked a whole lot of conversation, and much of that conversation revolved around the artist who was not chosen to perform. Next year’s Super Bowl is in New Orleans, the hometown of Lil Wayne, one of […]
Watch The Reunited Soul Coughing Smash Through “Super Bon Bon” In Their First Late-Night Performance In Decades
When the great ’90s New York weirdos Soul Coughing broke up in 2000, they did not leave things on good terms. Over the years, those guys definitely gave the impression that they still hated one another, so it was a genuine shock when Soul Coughing announced a reunion tour earlier this summer. Thus far, there […]
FKA twigs – “EUSEXUA”
Last week, the ever-elusive FKA twigs announced her new album EUSEXUA, the follow-up to her 2022 mixtape CAPRISONGS. She played the entire LP at a listening party in New York last month, and now she’s given us more details about the album (out in January) and its title track. Here’s what twigs says about the […]
The Weeknd – “Dancing In The Flames”
Earlier this week, the Weeknd shared a teaser for his music video to “Dancing In The Flames,” a song he debuted at a São Paulo concert last weekend that will presumably appear on his upcoming album Hurry Up Tomorrow. But it’s not just a regular music video: It serves as a commercial for the brand […]
Pom Pom Squad – “Street Fighter”
Pom Pom Squad have teased their new album Mirror Starts Moving Without Me with the bewitching singles “Downhill” and “Spinning.” Today, the NYC indie rockers are back today with the combative “Street Fighter,” co-produced by Cody Fitzgerald. “When Cody and I were messing around with this one we came across a synth patch that sounded […]