Last week, Lemonheads frontman Evan Dando was accused of sending unsolicited explicit videos to a fan. Tony Ortega, the last editor-in-chief for the Village Voice during my time at the paper, did the reporting in his newsletter The Underground Bunker, a newsletter otherwise dedicated to exposing Scientology. The unnamed woman and her husband reported that […]

Last year, Alabaster DePlume released his latest album, A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole. While touring it in March with bassist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer Tcheser Holmes, the experimental jazz/pop artist was recording an EP of instrumentals, and that’s being announced today. It’s called Dear Children of Our Children, I Knew: Epilogue. “Meeting with […]

Last year, Opal Mag unveiled a bunch of enticing, ’90s-indebted earworms like “I Don’t Like You, But I Love You,” “Kitchen Song,” and “Wasting.” Now, the Brighton-based musician is announcing her debut EP called Goodbye Lavender. The glittering, nostalgic anthem “World End” is out today. “‘World End’ is an exploration of emotional imbalance,” the artist […]