For the past two seasons, this guy named Rob Rausch has been appearing on Love Island, the American adaptation of the British dating reality show. Rob is a big fan of UK indie-pop star Beabadoobee, and he keeps endorsing her music on-air, despite his castmates seemingly having no idea who that is. Rob says, “It’s […]
Watch The Decemberists Perform “Burial Ground” On Kimmel
The Decemberists are fresh off the release of As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again, their first album in six years. Colin Meloy talked to us about the new LP and much more for a We’ve Got A File On You interview. After taking a few of its songs to CBS’ Saturday Sessions […]
Heaviness Reigns At Sound And Fury
Torture weren’t supposed to be there. They’re not a festival band. They’re barely a band at all. Torture are the project of one guy, a young Chicago multi-instrumentalist who calls himself K.K., and he just added a couple of touring musicians. They only played their first show a few months ago. Their chug-splat music is […]
PinkPantheress Says She Doesn’t Listen To Albums
Earlier this year, PinkPantheress stirred conversation when she said that her songs are short because “a song doesn’t need to be longer than 2 minutes 30, in my opinion.” On Tuesday, the viral British pop star sat down for a Kids Take Over interview and shared another hot take for which she’s catching heat. “I […]
Cherie Currie Explains How Rush “Sabotaged” The Runaways In 1977: “I Could’ve Been Paralyzed”
The beef between Rush and the Runaways goes way back. The 2010 film The Runaways depicted Kristen Stewart — as Joan Jett — urinating on a band’s guitar after they mocked the Runaways’ opening set. Jett later revealed that it was inspired by Rush because they “sat on the side of the stage and laughed […]
Heems – “Dame”
Earlier this year, the New York rapper and former Das Racist rapper Heems came back with the Lapgan-produced Lafandar, his first new album in a very long time. Heems won’t be taking another long break between albums; he’s already coming back next month with the new Veena LP. We’ve already posted its lead single, the […]
Dale Crover – “I Quit” (Feat. Kim Thayil)
Melvins drummer Dale Crover and Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil are two guys who were there for the very beginning of the Seattle underground-music scene that came to be known as grunge. Both of their bands were represented on Deep Six, the 1986 compilation that served as grunge’s ground-zero moment; Thayil was just talking about Deep […]
Footballhead – “Stupefied”
Last month, Chicago’s Footballhead announced their new mini-album, Before I Die. So far we’ve heard “Your Ghost” and the title track, and now the band is back with “Stupefied.” Along with “Stupefied,” both Balance And Composure and Chastity unveiled singles today, making it a great time to be emo (even the new Militarie Gun track […]
Skeleten – “Deep Scene”
Earlier this year, Skeleten released a trippy cover of the Emotions’ “Best Of My Love.” Today, the Sydney producer born Russell Fitzgibbon is back with a groovy new song called “Deep Scene.” “Shoutout to all my friends getting together to sing on this,” Fitzgibbon said. “Here’s hoping that everyone can be free to sink in […]
Tayla Parx Calls Out Normani For Not Crediting Her Work On “Insomnia”
After delays that seemed like they would be endless, former Fifth Harmony member Normani finally released her solo debut album Dopamine this year. She promoted the release two weeks ago with a visit to the Zach Sang Show. During the episode, Normani discussed the creation of “Insomnia,” one of the earliest tracks recorded for the […]