For the past couple weeks, Lorde has been making the rounds at European festivals, with a set list that de-emphasizes her most recent album Solar Power in favor of cuts from her first two LPs. She’s also broken out some new songs at these shows. Though if anyone has hopes for a quick follow-up of […]
Westlife Announce First-Ever North American Tour
The Irish boy band Westlife have announced their first-ever North American tour. The group, which broke up in 2012 and reunited in 2018, will perform four concerts around St. Patrick’s Day next year in Toronto, Boston, New York City, and Chicago. While Westlife did go on a promotional run of the US during the boy […]
BCMC (Bill MacKay & Cooper Crain) – “The Swarm”
The Chicago composer Bill MacKay has announced a collaborative project with Cooper Crain, of Cave and Bitchin Bajas. Together, they’re known as BCMC, and in October they’ll release a debut album, Foreign Smokes, built around Cooper’s keyboards and synths and MacKay’s guitar. The first single is “The Swarm,” and it’s an odd and ominous nine-minute […]
Touching Grass At Øyafestivalen
Øya — around since 1999 (save for two peak pandemic years in 2020 and 2021) — has evolved to be like Oslo’s own version of Coachella, attracting a who’s who of local Norwegian acts and international A-listers spanning a wide range of genres. Even better, much like Norway itself, Øya has gone out of its […]
Melle Mel Shares Statement On Eminem Drama: “Regrettably, My Response Fell Short In Its Execution”
Melle Mel and Eminem have been beefing. The conflict started with some comments that Melle Mel made to The Art Of Dialogue back in March saying that if Eminem wasn’t white, he wouldn’t be considered one of the top five rappers alive. This is all according to Billboard‘s 50 Greatest Rappers Of All Time list […]
Watch Run-DMC Perform For The Last Time At Hip Hop 50 Event In NYC
Run-DMC have performed live for what they say will be the last time ever. They closed out the star-studded Hip Hop 50 concert that took place at Yankee Stadium on Friday to celebrate the genre’s 50th anniversary. Earlier this year, the legendary group started talking up their retirement, and their appearance at last night’s event […]
Cleveland Street Renamed After Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
In January 2022, Cleveland residents began circulating a petition to name a street after Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, the city’s most legendary and influential hip-hop group. Specifically, the idea was to turn E 99th St. — immortalized in Bone Thugs releases like E. 1999 Eternal due to the group often hanging out at the intersection of E. […]
Watch Phoebe Bridgers Join Christian Lee Hutson At Øya Aftershow
The LA singer-songwriter Christian Lee Hutson has been working with Phoebe Bridgers for years. He’s co-written songs with her and her projects boygenius and Better Oblivion Community Center, and she’s co-produced both of his solo albums. Last night, Hutson played an aftershow as part of Norway’s huge Øya Festival, and Phoebe Bridgers made a surprise […]
DJ Kool Herc’s Fabled Hip-Hop House Party Was 50 Years Ago Today
On this day in 1973, a young lady named Cindy Campbell held a back-to-school birthday party in the rec room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, an apartment building in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the South Bronx. The entertainment for the evening was Cindy’s 18-year-old big brother Clive, who went by the name DJ Kool Herc. […]
Hear Keanu Reeves Play A “Nasty Bass Solo” On New Dogstar Single “Breach”
For well over 30 years, Keanu Reeves has devoted most of his time and artistic energy to movie stardom. He’s still doing that; IMDB says that Constantine 2 is currently in production. But these days, Keanu is also back to the important business of rockin’. Earlier this year, Keanu Reeves’ ’90s alt-rock band Dogstar announced […]